11-Deliberate and possibly act on an Ordinance amending Article I for Chapter 7, Buildings and Regulations of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris

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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET Submittal Date: Otiginating Department: Presented By: Agenda Item No.: 05/19/10 Engineering, Planning & Shawn Napier, P.E. Council Date: Development Director of Engineering, Planning 11. 06/28/10 & Develo ment RECOMMENDED MOTION: Move to approve an Ordinance amending Article I of Chapter 7, Buildings and Regulations of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris, Texas by adding section 7-3, Third Party Plan Review and Inspection; amending Article II, Building Code Section 7-19, Permit Fees, establishing permit fees required by the Building Code. PoLicY IssuE(s): Building Permit Fees BACKGROUND: At the April 12`" City Council meeting City Council asked staff to bring back a proposal for a new fee schedule. The proposed ordinance represents phase I in revising the fee structure and includes an addition and changes to Chapter 7"Buildings and Building Regulations" of the Code of Ordinances and wil] help ensure that the consumers of the service pay the cost. Staff plans to bring a second phase of restructuring after the question of third-party inspection, in-house inspections, or some combination is definitively answered through the FY 2010-201 1 budget process, i.e. we cannot assess if our fees will cover our costs if we are not certain of what the costs will be. The changes proposed in this first phase include: l. Section 7-3 will be added to Article I. 7-3 sets limits when a third party plan reviewer and inspector will be used and paid for by the developer. Third party plan reviewers and inspectors will be required to be preapproved by the City of Paris prior to use by developers. The only change to this section froln the first reading is the addition of a fee for the third party applicants. 2. Section 7-19 is being revised to add a plan review fee for all building plans submitted to the City that do not require a third party plan reviewer. A commercial site plan fee will be charged for every project submitted to the City. The rules regulating site plans vary so much between cities that most third party plan reviewers do not review site plans. Site plans include everything outside of the building that is required by Code or Ordinance. Staff recommends changing the in-ground swimming pool fee fram $25.00 to a valuation based fee because multiple inspections are required on in-ground pools. The Certificate of Occupancy application fee is currently $ 10.00. Staff proposes to increase this fee to $50.00. The last proposed change involves failure to obtain a building permit. A$20.00 administrative fee is charged for every day of delay in getting a building permit. Staff would like to increase this amount to $50.00 per day. After reviewing the Bureau Veritas (BV) invoices from Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2010, staff has estimated savings or additional fees in the following areas: plan review fees charged by BV $90,000 (to be done in house), fire review and inspection fees $50,000 (to be done in house for a fee or by third party), Plan review fees to be charged by the new ordinance $8,000, increased Certificate of Occupancy fee $5,000. The total of these savings and additional fees is $153,000. These numbers are only estimates and are based on existing permit data. BOARD/ COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 10'1