A.
The
city council hereby finds that the growth of the city and the ongoing
cost of providing development services including the administering
of building permits, improvement plans, fire permits, and entitlements
and the inadequacy of the city’s permitting system and technology
supporting development services adversely affect the ability of the
city to provide development services.
B.
The
city council finds that current revenue streams and development service
charges are not sufficient to make needed improvements to the city’s
permitting system and technology improvements needed to support development
services.
C.
It is
the purpose of this chapter to require that development services users
which access or benefit from the city’s permitting system and
development services contribute to the cost of providing technology
that supports these services for which they create a need.
D.
The
development services technology fee established by this chapter is
to be collected for purpose of funding the capital costs associated
with an online permitting system inclusive of costs associated with
software purchase, software licensing, implementation services, and
hardware.
(Ord. 5014 § 1, 2012)
The following words are defined for purposes of this chapter
as follows:
means the permit issued or required by the city for the construction
or modification of any structure pursuant to and as defined by the
building code.
means those approvals provided under Title 19, Zoning.
means the permit issued or required by the city for the construction
or ongoing operations of a structure or business pursuant to and as
defined by the fire code.
means the permit issued or required by the city for the construction
of any public or private site improvements as defined by the city’s
improvement and construction standards.
(Ord. 5014 § 1, 2012)
A.
A fee
calculated as a percentage of the cost of the building permit, fire
permit, improvement plan, and entitlement, as established by resolution
adopted by the city council, as amended from time to time, is required
to be imposed upon the application and issuance for such permit or
entitlement.
B.
The
fee shall be determined by calculating the applicable adopted percentage
of the permit or entitlement cost for which application is made or
issued.
C.
The
fee shall be placed in a separate fund to be known as the development
services technology fee fund and such revenues shall be used only
for the purpose of funding the capital costs associated with an online
permitting system inclusive of software purchases, software licensing,
implementation services, and hardware.
(Ord. 5014 § 1, 2012; Ord. 5800 § 5, 2017)
The development services technology fee shall be applied and
collected upon the initiation of online permitting services being
made available to the public and shall remain in effect until the
capital costs of the online permitting system are repaid to the city
and at such time repayment shall be deemed complete and the fee shall
terminate.
(Ord. 5014 § 1, 2012)
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall
not affect the other provisions of this chapter which can be given
effect without the invalid provisions or its application, and to this
end the provisions of this chapter are severable.
(Ord. 5014 § 1, 2012)
