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In dealing with housekeeping items on the agenda for Monday’s board meeting, the Rappahannock supervisors adopted a new building permit fee schedule designed to bring in enough revenue to cover operation of the building inspection program.
The permit charge for a single family, owner-occupied dwelling will go from five to six cents per square foot; commercial, industrial, rental property, religious, institutional and recreational structures from, seven to eight cents per square foot. Those and other adjustments to fees for remodeling, additions and accessory buildings will mean an increase of only a dollar or two to the average building permit, according to inspector Emil Smet. He acknowledged, however, that state regulations have upped the number of inspections required from three to as many as nine, “depending on the size and the complexity of the dwelling.”
He said it’s difficult to project the revenue that the new fee schedule will produce. “This year, we’re having a building boom,” Mr. Smet noted, adding that his office is backed up a week in handling inspection requests. “Next year, it might be a totally different picture.”
He described the revised fees as “more or less in line with the surrounding counties, some a little higher, some a little less,” the differences ranging from a half-cent to one cent. “We still have quite a few building permits below $100,” he assured the supervisors.
Should the new fee schedule generate revenues in excess of operating expenses for the building inspector’s office, the extra should be carried over and held in abeyance — “at least in the minds of the board members”— to cover shortfalls dur
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