(a) In addition to any other fees or deposits required by other sections of these Codified Ordinances, the Building Commissioner shall charge and the Director of Finance shall collect a deposit in the amount of two percent (2%) of the City Engineer’s estimate of the cost of the construction which is the subject of the building permit or other application but not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) unless the City Engineer approves, in their sole discretion, a lesser amount, to reimburse the City for expenses incurred for additional or supplemental engineering, legal, landscape architecture, or other professional services rendered as a result of the application for a building permit, the review of preliminary and final site development plans, land subdivisions, miscellaneous lot splits and consolidations, and/or rezoning applications.
(b) Charges for the professional services of the City Engineer, Director of Law, planning consultants, Landscape Architect, or their designees shall be at the rates set forth in their contracts or ordinances with the City.
(c) In the event that the monies deposited by an applicant as required in subsection (a) hereof are not sufficient to reimburse the City as provided in subsection (a), then the applicant shall be required to deposit additional monies in series of one thousand dollars ($1,000) as requested by the City, up to the total amount for said reimbursement.
(d) Any sums not so charged against such deposit as required in subsection (a) and (b) hereof shall be refunded to the applicant no later than sixty days from the completion of the construction, the granting or refusal of the permit, the approval of the preliminary and final site development plans, subdivision or lot split or consolidation, or the granting or refusal of the rezoning application.
(e) In addition to all other remedies provided by these Codified Ordinances or by law, the City may issue a stop work order or rescind any permits or approvals for violations of this section. (Ord. 98-2018. Passed 2-12-19.)