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The $7.5 million officials expect to raise throughj fee hikes is much smallef than the cuts thecounty made; for merit raises and length-of-service raises were eliminatedf for the next fiscao year, saving $19.1 million. If the boardr of supervisors approves thecounty executive’s site fees will cost 39 percent building permit fees will cost 27 percentf more, new residential permits will increasre by 50 percent, an infill gradingy plan, which only applies to residential lots, will double in The changes would take effec t July 1, at the beginning of fiscal year 2009.
Jamee Patteson,, director of land development saidthe department’s revenu e from permits and fees has dropped almost $4.5 million as buildinhg has slowed in the last two The department has shrunk by 55 positions — 35 through The other 20 workers were reassigned to otherd county divisions that needed engineers and Sites and building permit fees last went up in fisca l year 2006. Patteson made an estimate of how much revenue would grow because ofthe increases, but said activitu has dropped so much in the last four months, he had to revisr it, dropping $500,000 from the Zoning fees will go up even more with the cost of variances, special special exceptions and rezonings going up 55 An appeal to the administrator woulc more than quadruple, from $375 to $2,455.
An interpretationj of approved zoning, now free, would cost $500. When applicants ask for a deferral of apublic hearing, it woulxd cost $130 if the hearing were in frontt of the Board of Zoning Authority, and $1,00o if it were in front of the planning commissiomn or board of supervisors. Zoning fees last went up in 2006. Both proposalws will have public hearings, on March 12 and Marchu 30.