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Council hears and advances updates to Elk Grove development fees, shifting some services to time‑and‑materials billing

Elk Grove City Council · April 8, 2026
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Staff proposed updates to development‑related fees, including moving certain plan review and inspection services to time‑and‑materials and charging fully burdened staff rates; the proposal, presented by Community Development Director Christopher Jordan, had been shared with an industry working group and faced no public comment at the hearing.

Elk Grove — Council held a public hearing on proposed updates to the city's schedule of development‑related fees designed to align charges with the city's actual cost of services. Christopher Jordan, the Community Development Director, told the council the existing fee schedule dated to about 2011 and that recent organizational changes — bringing planning and engineering services in‑house — support a shift to time‑and‑materials for some reviews.

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