Agenda Date: 01/14/2025
Subject:
Title
Development Review Cost of Service Study and Amended 2025 Fee Schedule
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Tiffany Hooten, Finance Director
Presentations:
Kevin Orton, Budget Manager
Tiffany Hooten, Finance Director
Matt Knight, Community Development Director
PURPOSE:
Presentation on the cost of services study for development services user fees and recommended adjustments to the 2025 Fee Schedule. Development services user fees include subdivision review, site plan/rezoning review, master development plan review, major and minor plan amendments, historic district designation, tax credit application, variances, and other miscellaneous development review fees.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
Fees are charged to customers, citizens, and other parties for certain city services. The purpose of a fee is to help defray the cost of providing certain city services. The purpose of a fee is not to raise general revenue.
Noted within the city's Principles of Sound Financial Management, passed by City Council in 2018 and amended in 2023, Policy 3 - Revenues reflects "User fees shall be reviewed on a regular basis to calculate their full cost recovery levels, to compare them to the current fee structure, and to recommend adjustments where necessary. Competing policy objectives may result in reduced user fees and charges that recover only a portion of service costs."
The Finance Department and Community Development Department conducted a cost of services study to review development review fees and is recommending adjustments to the 2025 fee schedule in alignment with updated cost to provide development review services. The recommended adjustments to the fee schedule are attached and referenced as Exhibit A.
BACKGROUND:
In 2023, City Council approved dividing development review fees between Public Works and Community Development Department to reflect the development re...
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