Master Fee Schedule

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Building


*Building Valuation Data from the International Code Council, published each August, will be adopted starting October 1st each year for all residential and commercial projects. For remodels and tenant improvements, use IBC Section 109.3 for estimating permit values.

IBC Section [A] 109.3 Building permit valuations. The applicant for a permit shall provide an estimated permit value at time of application. Permit valuations shall include total value of work, including materials and labor, for which the permit is being issued, such as electrical, gas, mechanical, plumbing equipment and permanent systems. If, in the opinion of the building official, the valuation is underestimated on the application, the permit shall be denied, unless the applicant can show detailed estimates to meet the approval of the building official. Final building permit valuation shall be set by the building official.

Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Residential – New Construction – Flat fee based on the entire floor area of the home including finished and unfinished basements, but excluding garages and covered patios. Separate permit required for each trade. Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Residential – Other Installations - Including, but not limited to, temporary construction electrical service, change of electrical service, and electrical wiring for installation of residential spas, hot tubs, hydro massage tubs, swimming pools, electric space heating, outline lighting, air conditioning, and water/sewer installations.

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Small work permit. Small work is defined as a job with total cost including material and labor that does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). Small work does not include any job with a specifically designated fee in this resolution. Small work also includes, regardless of total cost, the installation of: Residential water heaters up to 100 gallons, water softeners and other single unit appliances, sprinkler system backflow prevention, bathroom exhaust fans, dryer ducts, and/or extension of forced supply and return ducts up to 25 feet in length.

​Permit fees are due upon commencement of work and must be paid prior to inspections being performed. The Building Official may assess an escalating penalty as established herein, for failure to obtain a permit and pay the required fees. Penalties are assessed in addition to the permit fee and must be paid prior to commencement of work and any inspections being done.​


Impact Fee

​This fee schedule shall be in effect thirty (30) days after the approval of the master Fee Schedule. On January 1 of each year in which an impact fee is in effect, the amount of the impact fee shall be automatically adjusted to account for year over year inflation increases in the cost of providing police, fire, parks and recreation, and street public facilities to serve new development utilizing the latest available municipal cost index as published by “American Cities And County Magazine”. Nothing herein shall prevent the city from electing to maintain a then existing police, fire, parks and recreation, and street impact fee or from electing to waive the inflation adjustment for any given fiscal year, or years. Any such action to determine an inflation factor shall be by city council resolution.​

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