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Council reviews library housekeeping, fire fee alignment and new development fees
Summary
Staff proposed removing certain library fees (including discontinuing in-house fax service), modest fire-department fee adjustments tied to workload, and new/raised development fees such as annexation/ETJ petition fees and a $5,000 fee for development-agreement review.
As part of the first-reading ordinance to update the city fee schedule, library, fire and planning staff outlined discrete changes. Library staff said they will remove non-fee sales items and discontinue providing faxing service in-house, moving to a third-party provider; legal advised that the items be removed from the fee schedule.
Fire and EMS fees were described as governed by statutory timing for EMS charges; staff said changes were intended to better align fees with staff time and competitive benchmarks. Planning staff described new fees for voluntary annexation petitions and ETJ releases (previously not charged), tiered increases for large-site plan reviews (up to 20+ acres), an adjusted zoning-change fee structure (keeping $500 for small lots) and a proposed $5,000 fee for development-agreement reviews to cover attorney and staff time.
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