(a) Application Fees. City departments shall impose fees for review of an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit. The purpose of these fees is to enable City departments to recover their costs related to reviewing an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit.
(1) Department Application Fee. Each Applicant for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit shall pay to the Department a non-refundable fee of $450 for each application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit.
(2) Other City Department Application Fees. Where, as required under this Article 25, the Department has referred an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit to the Planning Department, the Recreation and Park Department, or the Department of Public Health, an Applicant shall pay the following additional fees for each Personal Wireless Service Facility contained in an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit.
(A) A Planning Department non-refundable Application fee of $190 plus time and materials for any review that takes more than 30 minutes.
(B) A Recreation and Park Department non-refundable Application fee of $125 plus time and materials for any review that takes more than 30 minutes.
(C) A Department of Public Health non-refundable Application fee of $181 plus time and materials for any review that takes more than 60 minutes.
(c) Modification Permit Fees. Each Applicant for a Modification Permit shall pay to: (1) the Department a non-refundable fee of $338; and (2) the Department of Public Health fees set forth in Section 1527(a)(2) above.
(d) Inspection Fees. The Department and the Department of Public Health shall impose fees for the inspection of a permitted Personal Wireless Service Facility. The purpose of these fees is to enable these City departments to recover their costs related to inspecting a permitted Personal Wireless Service Facility.
(1) Department Inspection Fee. Each Permittee shall pay the Department a non-refundable time and materials inspection fee not to exceed $150 to inspect a permitted Personal Wireless Service Facility as required under Section 1516(b) above.
(2) Department of Public Health Inspection Fee. Each Permittee shall pay the Department of Public Health a non-refundable time and materials inspection fee to inspect a permitted Personal Wireless Service Facility where such inspection is required or requested under Section 1516(b) above.
(e) Adjustment of Fees.
(1) CPI Adjustments. Beginning with fiscal year 2011-2012, the fees established herein may be adjusted each year, without further action by the Board of Supervisors, to reflect changes in the relevant Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) (as determined by the Controller). No later than April 15 of each year, the Director shall submit the current fee schedule to the Controller, who shall apply the CPI adjustment to produce a new fee schedule for the following year. No later than May 15 of each year, the Controller shall file a report with the Board of Supervisors reporting the new fee and certifying that the fees produce sufficient revenue to support the costs of providing the services for which the Permit fee is charged, and that the fees do not produce revenue that exceeds the costs of providing the services for which each Permit fee is charged. The operation of this subsection (e)(1) shall terminate after the CPI adjustment for fiscal year 2019-2020.
(2) Controller Adjustments. Beginning with fiscal year 2020-2021, the fees established herein, including as adjusted through fiscal year 2019-2020 under Section 1527(e)(1) above, may be adjusted each year on July 1 without further action by the Board of Supervisors, to reflect changes in City department costs to provide the services required herein. Not later than April 1 of each year the Controller will determine whether the current fees have produced or are projected to produce revenues sufficient to enable City departments to recover the costs of the permitting services required by this Article 25, and that the fees will not produce revenue that is significantly more than the costs of providing such services. If necessary, the Controller will adjust the fees upward or downward for the upcoming fiscal year as appropriate to ensure that City departments recover their costs without producing revenue that is significantly more than such costs. The adjusted fees shall become operative on July 1.
(f) Discretion to Require Additional Fees. In instances where the review of an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit is or will be unusually costly to the Department or to other City departments, the Director, in the Director’s discretion, may, after consulting with other applicable City departments, agencies, boards, or commissions, require an Applicant for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit to pay a sum in excess of the amounts charged pursuant to this Section 1527. This additional sum shall be sufficient to recover actual costs incurred by the Department and/or other City departments, agencies, boards, or commissions, in connection with an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permit and shall be charged on a time and materials basis. Whenever additional fees are charged, the Director, upon request, shall provide in writing the basis for the additional fees and an estimate of the additional fees.
(g) Deposit of Fees. All fees paid to the Department for Personal Wireless Service Facility Site Permits shall be deposited in the Public Works Excavation Fund established by Administrative Code Section 10.100-230. All other fees shall go directly to the appropriate City department.
(h) Reimbursement of City Costs. A City department may determine that it requires the services of an expert in order to evaluate an Application for a Personal Wireless Service Facility. In such case, the Department shall not approve the Application unless the Applicant agrees to reimburse the applicable City department for the reasonable costs incurred by that department for the services of a technical expert.
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