Title
Agenda Item:
Ordinance Amending Land Use Fees for Pre-Submission Meetings
Body
Issue:
Whether to amend Land Use application fee schedule to eliminate "minor" presubmission conference fee category. Result would be that all parties requesting a presubmission conference would pay fee of $240 that is now applicable only to "major" projects.
Committtee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager's Recommendation:
Move to approve fee amendment ordinance on first reading as proposed and place on next Council agenda for second and final reading.
Staff Contact:
Todd Stamm, Planning Manager, Community Planning and Develoment Department, 360.753.8597
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item
Background and Analysis:
For over two decades the City of Olympia has offered 'presubmission conferences' to prospective development applicants. Presubmission conferences are formal meetings where the City's Site Plan Review Committee (SPRC), which is composed of staff that review major developments, meets with prospective development applicants to inform the requesting party about development review processes, fees and standards of the City. Although no decisions are made, these meetings are open to the public and result in a written record. Although the number has declined in the last few years, on average the City hosts about 100 such meetings each year with about one-quarter to one-third leading to actual development applications.
In 2004 the City of Olympia evaluated its costs of delivering services associated with reviewing land use development proposals. That study led to adopting a two-tiered fee structure for presubmission conference requests. The two-tiered fee structure recognized that for proposed develpoments that would not be subject to the State Environmental Policy Act, which generally are those of less than 10 housing units and less than 8,000 square feet of commercial floor area, the issues to be discussed were less complicated. For these ...
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