(A) Any person or other entity who owns and resides in either a single-family residence or duplex and who has applied for a building permit under this subchapter in connection with a project to improve or expand said single-family residence or duplex may apply for and request a waiver of the applicable building permit fees in accordance with the schedule of permit fee waivers set forth in division (C) herein; provided that said waiver shall be granted only if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The building permit application to which the waiver request relates was filed by the applicant with the city’s Department of Planning and Development Services by no later than December 31, 1990;
(2) The project or work for which the building permit and the fee waiver is being requested is in connection with an improvement project or expansion project to an already existing single-family residence or duplex; provided however, that no fee waiver or fee rebate shall be granted for swimming pool, hot tub or spa projects, or projects related solely to maintenance;
(3) The application for fee waiver is made in writing on forms supplied by the city’s Department of Planning and Development Services and accompanied by a copy of the building permit or building permit application, related to the fee waiver being requested;
(4) The person or other entity applying for the fee waiver is the same person or other entity, as the case may be, who applied for the building permit to which the fee waiver being requested is related; and
(5) The person or other entity applying for the fee waiver has not commenced any work without first obtaining a building permit within the city within the past 12 months immediately preceding the date of application for the fee waiver.
(B) Upon receipt of a completed application for a waiver of building permit fees, the Director of Planning and Development Services, or his or her designee, shall review said application and take the necessary steps to ensure that all of the conditions set forth in division (A) herein have been satisfied with respect to such application.
(C) After making a determination that all of the conditions set forth in division (A) herein, have been satisfied as to a particular fee waiver application, the Director of Planning and Development Services, or his or her designee, shall approve the applicant’s request for a fee waiver of the building permit fee; provided that the amount of the fee waiver shall be determined as follows:
Age of Single-Family Percentage of
Residence or Duplex Permit Fee Waived
0 up to 5 years old 10
5 up to 10 years old 20
10 up to 15 years old 35
over 15 years old 50
(D) Any person or other entity who meets all of the criteria of division (A) herein, shall receive a rebate of those building permit fees paid (including, for purposes of this division only, all permit fees paid for engineering, mechanical, electrical, gas and plumbing permits, if any) which have not previously been waived under division (C) herein, in accordance with the following formula; provided that said rebates shall not be granted until such time as the applicant obtains a final certificate of occupancy for the improvement or expansion project to which the rebate request relates:
Estimated Increase in Building Permit Fee Rebate
Assessed Value from (expressed as a percentage
Improvements or of the permit fee not waived
Expansion Project in division (C) above)
Estimated increase in assessed
value increases from 10% to
under 25% of the previous
assessed value of the single-
family residence or duplex 33%
Estimated increase in assessed value
increases from 25% to under 50% of
the previous assessed value of the
single-family residence or duplex 66%
Estimated increase in assessed value
increases 50% or more of the previous
assessed value of the single-family
residence or duplex 100%
(E) The City Manager is hereby authorized to implement such procedural steps and administrative guidelines as he or she deems necessary in order to effectuate and expedite the processing of building permit applications and requests for fee waivers and rebates under this section.
(‘72 Code, § 10.120) (Ord. O-88-83, passed 12-14-88; Am. Ord. O-90-2, passed 1-17-90; Am. Ord. O-2011-15, passed 5-4-11)