Title
Joint resolution amending the Lake County Land Development Fee Schedule.
Staff Summary
* The Lake County Land Development Fee Schedule was last updated in 2011. It is normally updated on an as-needed basis or every five years. The county recognized that the implementation of the Energov land management software system would have significant impacts on the review of the fees; and therefore, postponed the analysis until late 2017.
* Planning, Building and Development Department staff have reviewed their methodology and proposed changes to the Land Development Fee Schedule with the Committee in a series of presentations from February to June, 2018.
* The proposed fee schedule changes are based on analysis of cost, benchmarking, and process efficiencies. Staff has also compared the current and proposed fees to more than a dozen other communities' fee schedules. Lake County fees, in general, were in the middle range as compared to the comparable communities.
* The proposed fee schedule modification represents an aggregate increase of 6.3 percent with some fees increasing a little more and some decreasing due to efficiencies gained by the implementation of the new land management system.
* Following a discussion during the May Planning, Building and Zoning Committee, an annual escalator has been included in the fee schedule to increase annually via Consumer Price Index (CPI) or two percent, whichever is less. If Lake County had implemented an annual escalator in the same study time period of 2011 through 2017, it would have resulted in a seven percent increase in fees. Following a thorough review, the Planning, Building and Zoning Committee recommends the approval of the Fee Schedule including the annual escalator which is a gradual method for future fee adjustments.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board adopted a Resolution amending the fees relating to services provided by the Department of Planning, Building and Development and inc...
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