RESOLUTION NO. 54-07

 

A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE DEVELOPMENT FEE SCHEDULE TO

ADD A NEW FEE FOR A SIGN PACKAGE PERMIT

 

RECITALS:

 

The City of Grand Junction (“City”) established a Development Fee Schedule (“Fee Schedule”) with Resolution No. 26-00. The City’s adopted policy is that growth, i.e. development, is to “pay its own way.” It has been determined that to implement this policy, the Development Fee Schedule will need to be amended from time to time.

 

The City considers revisions to the Fee Schedule when it becomes apparent that there are additional fees that should be applied for developments to pay their own way.

 

The City recently amended the Zoning and Development Code to create a new Sign Package Permit. In order to implement the new permit, it is necessary to establish an appropriate fee. After review and consideration, it has been determined that a fee of $50 is reasonable and shall be assessed for development applications that request approval of a Sign Package Permit.

 

The fee stated and described herein has been found to be in an amount bearing a reasonable relationship to the cost of providing services, protecting the public and their facilities from degradation and/or exacerbation of public problems due to growth.

 

The City has a legitimate governmental interest in assuring that development does not cause the public problem of inadequate, unsafe and inefficient public facilities, and to that end has determined that there is a reasonable, demonstrable connection between the fee, charges and dedications and the public benefit and protection of the public health, safety and welfare that is had by imposing the same on new growth and development. The community, in which the growth and development is occurring, is benefited by the receipt and expenditure of such revenues.

 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY GRAND JUNCTION THAT:

 

The Development Fee Schedule is hereby amended to include the following fee:

 

1.  A $50 fee shall be assessed per development application that requests approval for a Sign Package Permit.

 

 

PASSED and ADOPTED this 18th day of April 2007.

 

 

ATTEST:

 

 

             /s/: James J. Doody

             Mayor

/s/: Stephanie Tuin

City Clerk