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Ellensburg adopts code change and new community development review fees to recover costs
Ellensburg City Council · March 17, 2026
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Summary
Council adopted Ordinance 4981 and Resolution 2026-06 to move building permit fees into a resolution and set updated community development review fees designed to recover roughly 90% of review costs; changes include small-project windows fee and a biennial fee update tied to the budget.
Dan Carlson, Community Development Director, presented the second reading of Ordinance 4981 to amend the Ellensburg City Code and create a mechanism (a new section 2.42) to adopt development review fees by resolution. Carlson told council the city's fees had not kept pace with…
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