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File #: 2026-0025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Assigned
File created: 12/22/2025 In control: Planning and Community Development Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Title: Ordinance 26-003, relating to Development Permit Fees for Transportation Review; amending SCC 13.110.030
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance 26-003, 2. PDS Staff Report, 3. Ordinance Introduction Slip

 

 

Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)

 

 

ITEM TITLE:

 

Ordinance 26-003, relating to Development Permit Fees for Transportation Review; amending SCC 13.110.030

 

DEPARTMENT:  Planning and Development Services

 

ORIGINATOR:  Julie Mass

 

EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION:  Approved by Ken Klein 1/13/26

 

PURPOSE: To update transportation review fees in SCC 13.110.030 to adjust for inflation, as part of Phase III in updating permitting fees.

 

BACKGROUND: Development Permit Fees in SCC 13.110.030 for transportation reviews administered by PDS have not been updated in 35 years, since the fees were initially adopted in 1991. Periodic adjustments to fees are needed to maintain financial self-sufficiency in providing permitting services and keep pace with inflation. PDS is facing significant annual budget deficits. To help close the expected budget gap, PDS is proposing to amend the fees for transportation reviews where the updated cost model (established hourly rates for services) is applied to estimated time spent processing development permits with traffic impacts to establish a reasonable fee that provides for better cost recovery.

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

EXPEND: FUND, AGY, ORG, ACTY, OBJ, AU

CURRENT YR

2ND YR

1ST 6 YRS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

 

 

 

REVENUE: FUND, AGY, ORG, REV, SOURCE

CURRENT YR

2ND YR

1ST 6 YRS

193-3055134588 Development Review

$103,000

$124,000

$723,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

$103,000

$124,000

$723,000

 

DEPARTMENT FISCAL IMPACT NOTES:  There are no fiscal impacts to PDS expenditures as this ordinance only affects revenue.

 

CONTRACT INFORMATION:

ORIGINAL

 

CONTRACT#

 

AMOUNT

 

AMENDMENT

 

CONTRACT#

 

AMOUNT

 

 

Contract Period

ORIGINAL

START

 

END

 

AMENDMENT

START

 

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OTHER DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW/COMMENTS:  Reviewed/approved by Finance - Nathan Kennedy 1/12/26