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City of Mounds View Staff Report May 2, 1997 . Page 2 the cost for excavating, gradingand fill permits should be • More work is needed to determine if adjusted. Development Review: We do not know how long ago these fees were set, but many of them are much lower than the City's costs for doing development reviews. The existing fee schedule is as follows: • Type of Application ❑ Comprehensive Plan Amendment $200 ❑ Rezoning $200/ac;min$200 max$1000 ❑ Major Subdivision $250+$250 deposit* ❑ Minor Subdivision $150 ❑ Planned Unit Development(PUD) $350 ❑ PUD Amendment $150 ❑ Conditional Use Permit R-1,R-2$75; all others$200 ❑ Variance R-1,R-2$75; all others$200 ❑ Code Appeal $75 ❑ Develop Review/Site Plan $100/ac;min$100 max$500 ❑ Wetland Alteration Permit $50+deposit* ❑ Wetland Buffer Permit $10 . ❑ Floodplain Permit $200 Since January, staff in the Community Development Department have been tracking the number 4o of hours spent on various tasks including individual development cases. The following are examples: Case Fee Paid Hours Spent Dollars/Hour D.W. Jones PUD $350 66.75 $ 5.24 O'Neil Property PUD/ $550 121 $ 4.54 Comp Plan Amendment Linders CUP $200 10 $20.00 Colonial Village CUP $200 14.5 $13.79 Spots Quick Lube CUP $200 55.75 $ 3.58 Hoopingarner Lot Split $150 14.5 $10.34 Tammy Bellamy CUP $75 18.75 $ 4.00 Zep Devel Review/Variance $460 51.75 $ 8.88 None of these cases (other than Linders and Colonial Village) approaches the cost of paying for staff time. We know that it may be impractical to cover all costs, but staff feels that the current situation, especially for large cases such as the D.W. Jones and O'Neil Property, needs attention. We are unclear why PUDs have a flat fee, and rezonings have a sliding fee based on acreage. We • need direction from City Council whether you want to institute a system that bases fees more on time spent than on type of application. There was a practice in the past that developers paidII