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Redondo Beach receives cost‑of‑service user‑fee study; council directs nexus study and asks for fee refinements
Summary
A consultant presented a cost‑of‑service review showing a roughly $1M annual gap recoverable by fee updates; council directed staff to pursue a Nexus (impact‑fee) study and asked for more modest adjustments for certain planning fees and appeal fees to protect resident access to appeals.
The Redondo Beach City Council received a detailed cost‑of‑service study on March 31 that recomputed planning and building fees using fully allocated hourly rates and clear step‑by‑step time estimates for standard application types.
Consultant findings: Eric Johnson of Revenue & Cost Specialists explained the methodology: identify services, allocate staff time to service steps, compute fully loaded hourly rates (salary + benefits + overhead) and match cost to existing…
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