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Schedule of fees

dandy_warhol

dandy_warhol

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Our City is starting to contemplate adjusting our schedule of fees for Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals.

What does your municipality charge to review those applications?
 
We are a 76,000 pop. 2nd ring suburb of Chicago.

For Plan Commission:
13.6 Plan Commission Fees
Rezoning to R-E, R-1, R-2 and R-3 District Classification -$900.00
Rezoning to all other district classifications
0 - 1.99 acres - $900.00
2 - 4.99 acres - $1,100.00
5 - 9.99 acres - $1,300.00
10 - 14.99 acres - $1,500.00
15 + acres - $1,700.00
Planned Unit Development
0 - 4.99 acres - $1,200.00
5 - 9.99 acres - $1,400.00
10 - 14.99 acres - $1,600.00
15 + acres - $1,800.00
Planed Unit Development Amendments
0 - 4.99 acres - $1,200.00
5 - 9.99 acres - $1,400.00
10 - 14.99 acres - $1,600.00
15 + acres - $1,800.00
Special Use Permits (and Amendments)
Under 3,000 square feet (gross) - $500.00
3,000 + square feet (gross) - $850.00
All drive-thoughts - $1,000.00
Subdivisions, except consolidations - $900.00
+ $55.00 for each new lot created
Land Use Variation
0 - 1.99 acres - $900.00
2 - 4.99 acres - $1,100.00
5 - 9.99 acres - $1,300.00
10 - 14.99 acres - $1,500.00
15+ acres - $1,700.00
Lot Consolidations - $300.00

For Zoning Board of Appeals:
Single Family Residential District - $200.00
Multiple Family or Commercial District - $350.00
Commercial District - $500.00
Institutional District - $330.00
 
I am going to bump and expand this thread.

As we do often, we are reviewing our fee schedule and making sure that the fees that we charge are appropriate and can be justified. For the overwhelming majority of the cases, the fees we are charging are not even close to the expenditures that we have to review, inspect, and process the applications or permits.

A member of the admin department kind of spearheads the fee schedule and has requested a questionnaire be filled out for each fee. The part that gets me is it is 28 questions plus an upload section for each and every fee. For the departments that I oversee, we are talking somewhere in the ball park of 4000 responses when run the numbers. Needless to say we will break it up not only among division but each division will split them up as well.

My question is how do you calculate your fee schedule? What level of justification do you provide? How deep into the weeds do you get to show your cost to fee ratios?
 
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