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Issue <br />ITEM 5.15.e <br />Iveir <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Steven B. Ach, City Planner --e-4` <br />DATE: December 18, 1995 <br />SUBJECT: Planning Fees <br />Consider adjusting planning application fees. <br />Overview <br />On an annual basis, staff conducts a survey of surrounding and other similar <br />developing communities to assess their fee structure as compared to Elk <br />River's. When considering an increase in application fees, staff reviews the <br />following: <br />How does Elk River's fees compare to the surrounding and similar <br />communities? <br />Which applications generally demand the greatest amount of staff time to <br />review, prepare reports and administer? <br />The last time planning application fees were adjusted was January of 1994. <br />Since that time, it has become clear the applications which generally demand <br />the greatest amount of staff time are: <br />Subdivisions (preliminary and final) <br />Conditional use permits <br />Site plan review <br />Therefore, the fees for these applications are proposed to be increased as <br />follows: <br />1995 Fee <br />1996 Fee <br />Conditional use permit (commercial/industrial) <br />$250.00 <br />$300.00 <br />Preliminary plat <br />$500.00 <br />$500.00+$5 <br />per lot <br />Site plan review <br />$200.00 <br />$250.00 <br />13065 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 490 • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441-7420 • Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br />