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Council updates development-fee rules to collect third-party review costs prior to certificates of occupancy
Summary
Ordinance 603 authorizes the city to recover third-party site-plan review fees and allows the city to collect those fees prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy to ensure cost recovery and maintain review timelines.
The Bee Cave City Council unanimously adopted Ordinance 603 to amend Appendix A of the Unified Development Code to allow the city to charge developers for third-party site-plan review fees and to provide a mechanism to collect those fees prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy when invoices arrive late.
Sean Olajano said the changes are intended for cost recovery and to maintain the city’s quick review timeline; staff estimated roughly 15 site-plan or site-plan amendment applications in the past year and proposed matching neighboring municipalities’ practices. "This just allows us to charge the fees as invoiced to the city by the third party," Olajano said. He added the city plans to centralize the fee schedule into the code of ordinances in the future to streamline updates.
Council discussed enforcement tied to the certificate of occupancy and general plans to review fee schedules more comprehensively later; Olajano said withholding a CO will prevent a project from closing if fees remain unpaid. After discussion council moved to approve and the ordinance passed unanimously.
