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County committee adopts new Planning & Development fee schedule after multi‑county benchmarking
Summary
The committee approved an updated Planning & Development fee schedule built from a multi‑county benchmarking exercise and internal time‑cost analysis; staff said the changes will modestly increase fee revenue and reduce levy reliance and will be reviewed periodically.
Kenosha County staff presented a rewritten and simplified Planning & Development fee schedule based on benchmarking with other counties and a time‑cost analysis. Staff said the work included consultations with other counties and a financial analysis by Public Works Finance.
Staff characterized the net fiscal effect as modest: during the presentation members heard the fee changes would result in "about a $10,000 increase" in fee revenue and that the change would reduce levy reliance (the transcript included a reference to a larger levy reduction figure that staff presented as part of internal analysis). Committee members approved the updated schedule, praised the approach of aligning fees with actual time and costs, and directed staff to implement the changes in permitting software and to revisit the schedule periodically.
Supervisors said shifting costs toward users rather than the general levy made policy sense. Staff noted certain fee categories were consolidated and some rarely used fees removed to simplify administration.
