To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Bryan Weimer, Director, Public Works and Development (PWD)
Prepared By:
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Rebecca Doane, Support Services Division Manager, PWD Greg Bragdon, Building Division Manager, PWD
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Subject:
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2:45 PM *Proposal for Updating Building Permit Fees and Funding Request
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Purpose and Request:
recommended action
The purpose of this study session is to provide the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) with a proposal for updating fees charged by the Building Division and to get direction from the BOCC on whether to proceed with the next steps required as part of the fee revision process. Public Works and Development has also included a funding request based on the updating of building permit fees.
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Background and Discussion: Workload in the Land Development Services (LDS) divisions, which includes the Building, Planning, and Engineering Services Divisions within PWD, has remained high over the past several years. All signs indicate that a high level of building development will continue in Arapahoe County through 2024 and into 2025.
In 2019, PWD staff conducted a detailed analysis of LDS fees, which includes fees assessed by Building, Planning/Zoning, and Engineering Services. Most of the fees at that time had not been changed in many years; in the case of Building permit fees specifically, these fees had essentially been unchanged for over 20 years. In 2020, PWD staff recommended a 50% increase to Building permit and plan check fees, which was approved by the BOCC and implemented effective 1/1/2021. At that time, we advised the BOCC that we would conduct another fee review in three years and would return with a new proposal if we believed another increase was warranted. Even though a 50% increase was implemented, because the fees had been so low due to not having been changed in over 20 years, we believed that another increase in a few years might be appropriate.
We conducted an upda...
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