Community Development Planning Division

A. Hourly

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/20/09
A 1 Technical Support /Hour * $77.00
A 2 Planner /Hour * $152.00
A 3 Management/Supervisor /Hour * $180.00

B. Design Review

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
B 1 Administrative Approvals $2,000.00
B 2 Design Guideline Areas Tier II $1,000.00 dep
B 3 Tier III $2,000.00 dep
B 4 Minor Improvements/Design Guideline Areas-Tier I Review Not Requiring Categorical Exemption 1 Hour Planner Rate
B 5 Requiring Categorical Exemption 2 Hours Planner Rate
B 6 New Projects – All New Buildings $2,000.00 dep
B 7 Planning Commission-Additional Deposit for Referral to Planning Commission $1,000.00 dep
B 8 Sign Program (signs not consistant with sign guidelines or approved sign program) $1,000.00 dep
B 9 Design Review of Historic Structures Categorically Exempt $1,000.00 dep
B 10 Not Categorically Exempt $0.00 dep

C. Environmental Review

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
C 1 Categorical Exemption $154.00
C 2 Negative Declaration $1,500.00 dep
C 3 EIR Preparation (A)
C 4 Yolo County NOD Filing Fee $50.00
C 5 CA Dept of Fish & Game Filing Fees Negative Declaration $2,043.00
C 6 EIR $2,818.25

D. Housing/Owner Occupancy

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
D 1 Affordable Housing Plans Review $900.00 dep
D 2 In-Lieu Housing – Per Unit $37,500.00
D 3 Owner Occupancy Declaration $204.36
D 4 Exemption $196.50
D 5 Phased Allocation Plan $2,000.00 dep

E. Map Applications

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
E 1 Tentative Map (5 parcels or more), vacation of right of way $3,000.00 dep
E 2 Other Maps/Lot Line Adjustment/Referred to Subdivision Committee $2,000.00 dep

F. Parking

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
F 1 In-lieu Parking Space – Per Space For all zoning districts, excluding Central Commercial (CC) and Mixed Use (MU) $8,000.00
F 2 Central Commercial (CC) and Mixed Use (MU) $4,000.00

G. Zoning

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
G 1 Conditional Use Permit Minor $2,000.00 dep
G 2 Major $3,000.00 dep
G 3 Final Planned Development & Revised Final Planned Development $2,000.00 dep
G 4 Minor Modification Not Referred to Planning Commission $2,000.00
G 5 Referred to Planning Commission $2,000.00 dep
G 6 Prezoning/Rezoning/Preliminary Planned Development $5,000.00 dep
G 7 Public Convenience of Necessity Determination $1,000.00 dep
G 8 Temporary Use Permit No Mailing or Environmental Review 1 Hour Planner Rate
G 9 Requiring Mailing $2,000.00
G 10 Variance $1,600.00 dep
G 11 Zoning Letter/Determination of Permitted Use 2 Hours Planner Rate
G 12 Zoning Ordinance Amendment $4,000.00 dep
G 13 Zoning Verification (Planning Commission) $500.00 dep

H. Other Applications

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
H 1 Annexations $3,000.00 dep
H 2 Appeals $200.00
H 3 Demolition Review Staff Review $500.00 dep
H 4 HRMC Public Hearing $2,000.00 dep
H 5 Consultant $1,000.00
H 6 Development Agreement Preparation/Implementation $8,000.00 dep
H 7 Annual Review $1,500.00 dep
H 8 Amendment $2,000.00 dep
H 9 General Plan Amendment $4,000.00 dep
H 10 Specific Plan Amendment $3,000.00 dep
H 11 Grading Permit Biological Survey $1,000.00 dep
H 12 No Survey Required $308.00
H 13 Long-Range/Community Planning/General Plan Update Fee (B)
H 14 Pre-Application $1,500.00 dep
H 15 Pre-Application Meeting One Hour $150.00
H 16 Research $500.00 dep
H 17 Yolo County Referral – all applications $2,000.00 dep
H 18 All other applications $500.00 dep
H 19 Core Area Specific Plan Amendment Cost Recovery Fee Historic Unit $2,215 per historic structure and $2.25 per net new square foot of new structure
H 20 Non-Historic Unit $2.25 per net new square foot of new structure
H 21 Late Payment Fee Department invoices that are more than 60 days past due, will be charged 10% interest compunded monthly on the total amount due 10%

I. Plan Checking

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
I 1 Actual hourly rate charged at building permit (C) dep
I 2 Landscape Plans $770.00

K. Documents

Service Activity Fee Effective 7/1/09
K 1 Photo Copying Pre-Run /Page $0.30
K 2 Sepia Reproduction /Page (D)
K 3 Staff report Copying /Page $0.30
K 4 Copies of Scanned Images (Scanned in-house) 8½ × 11 /Page $0.30
K 5 All other sizes /Page $0.35-$23.50
K 6 Agenda/Annual Subscription Mailed w/o Attachments $50.00
K 7 All Documents/Maps/Etc (E)
K 8 Postage For Mailings > 100 Pcs Each or 3 Mailings at 100 Pcs (E)
K 9 Address Atlas (Bound) $13.00
K 10 Core Area Specific Plan (Bound) $10.00
K 11 Downtown Davis & Traditional Neighborhoods Design Guidlines (Bound) $20.00
K 12 General Plan $30.00
K 13 Maps – Other $7.00
K 14 Subdivision Ordinance $7.00
K 15 Zoning Atlas (Bound) $13.00
K 16 Zoning Map (Folded) $7.00
K 17 Zoning Ordinance $12.00

  • * Effective 08/02/2009
  • (A) Full payment of cost estimate, or contract + 20% admin fee.
  • (B) .002 of building permit valuation. Charged at building permit on all permit types except demolition permits.
  • (C) Actual hourly rate charged at building permit.
  • (D) 150% of actual cost.
  • (E) Actual cost + 25%
  • NOTE:
    1. Projects may require review by other agencies. These agencies may impose a fee for this service.
    2. If the deposit exceeds the final actual cost, the balance will be refunded to the Applicant.
    3. The Community Development Director may reduce deposits if deemed appropriate.
    4. Refund Policy
      • Refund requests must be submitted in writing.
      • Fixed fee applications: a refund will not be granted if the project has been noticed for a public hearing. If the project has not been noticed for a public hearing the refunded amount will be the original fee paid, less the cost of staff hours worked on the project, less a $30 administrative processing fee.
      • Withdrawn applications: if staff has not completed any work on the project a refund of the original fee paid, less a $30 administrative processing fee will be made.
      • Deposit applications: any unused deposit fee, after project completion, shall be entirely refunded.

City of Davis, California
23 Russell Blvd.
Davis, Ca. 95616