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r <br /> O.RA,NGp, COUNTy PL.AIVIVING DEPARTAERNT <br /> EaLL5130ROR'G8 <br /> NORM GAROMNd. <br /> 7°:'78 <br /> add,10 of� <br /> f7* 3 4 <br /> e <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO 11r. S. m. Gattis, county Manager <br /> FROM: Planning Department <br /> DATE: December 13, 1979 <br /> SUBJECT: Fee Schedules for Planning Department Permits, Reviews, and Service <br /> We have studied the costs for review of subdivision requests, rezoning <br /> applications, zoning permits, and appeals and variances that go to the Board <br /> of Adjustment. We currently charge the total cost for each copy of sub-- <br /> division regulations and zoning ordinances. Services and fees of the"` <br /> Sedimentation and Erosion Control Division are covered, in Ray Freeman's <br /> separate memo to you. <br /> Fees could be cbarged for the following activities: preliminary <br /> subdivision plat review, final subdivision plat review, rezoning applications <br /> (text or map changes), minor subdivision approval, appeals and variances to <br /> the Board of Adjustment, and special lase permits. <br /> Recommendation Number 1: Only a-,small part of Current Planning Division <br /> services and activities can be recovered through fees. We must be guided by <br /> the assumption that all policy making activities and other such activities that <br /> relate to the public at Large are legitimate public costs. Only on costs that <br /> benefit individuals and are not "public costs" should fees be considered. <br /> Recommendation Number 2: Of the seven activities mentioned above as <br /> legitimate objects for fees, we have omitted provision of information.to <br /> citizens (growth trends, population, economic, and land use data, etc.). <br /> This information should be available to the publiq. <br /> Our survey of other local governments indicates some charge no fees, <br /> others charge a flat fee, others charge per lot for subdivisions, and some <br /> use a combination of these for their various fees. The fee schedules <br /> contained in the attached Tables (4, S, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, and 15) are from <br /> the Planning Advisory Service+s Zonina and Subdivision Fees: Current Practice <br /> (by Judith N. Getzels - March 1979) provide a survey of local government's <br /> activities across the United States. The following fees are charged in <br /> selected jurisdictions in North Carolina: <br /> I <br /> �a <br /> i <br /> p« <br />