Fremont County Planning & Zoning Department

615 Macon Ave.
Room 210
Cañon City, CO 81212

(719) 276-7360
Fax: (719) 276-7374

eMail Us

Office Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday

Staff:
Bill Giordano
Planning Director

Marshall Butler
Planning Coordinator

Vicki Alley
Planning Assitant

Donna Monroe
Planning Assistant

Robert Sapp
Code Enforcement Officer

Ronald Zenisky
Code Enforcement Officer

Ernie Martinez
Land Use Technician

At the January 24, 2006 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, the Board adopted new schedules for subdivision and zoning fees. The Board modified fees as the result of citizens' comments at a January 10th public hearing. The fee increases stem from a comprehensive study of time and services that the staff in the Planning and Zoning Department performs in connection with each application. The study was conducted over the past several months by Eric Parish of Public Resource Management Group (PRM) of Denver. The study was conducted to identify the true cost of fee related activities ensuring a clear relationship between the cost of the service and the fees that are charged. PRM looked at actual costs of time spent on applications in the Planning and Zoning Office in fiscal year 2004 and looked at 2004 and 2005 volumes of activity in the office.

  • Zoning Application Fees
  • Subdivision Application Fees

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & ZONING
ZONING APPLICATION FEES
EFFECTIVE AUGUST 14, 2006

TYPE OF APPLICATION

FEE

  1. Conditional Use Permit

$1,750.00 + publication fee

  2. Conditional Use Permit Renewal

$1,550.00 + publication fee

  3. Conditional Use Permit Transfer

$300.00

  4. Conditional Use Permit Cessation

$150.00

  5. CUP Annual Review (penalty if
      delinquent)

**$150.00

  6. Special Review Use Permit

$1,800.00 + publication fee

  7. Special Review Use Permit Transfer

$350.00

  8. Special Review Use Permit Cessation

$150.00

  9. SRU Annual Review (penalty if
      delinquent)

**$150.00

10. SRU & CUP Change of Operator

$250.00

11. Waste Treatment Sites

$1,500.00 + publication fee

12. Certificate of Designation

$750.00 + publication fee

13. Zone Change

$1,550.00 + publication fee

14. Zone Change MHP, TTP&CG

$2,150.00 + publication fee

15. Development Plan Reviews for MHP,      TTP&CG

$525.00

16. Planned Unit Development

$1,800.00 + publication fee

17. PUD Modifications

$275.00

18. Board of Zoning Adjustment

$750.00 + publication fee

19. Rebuild letter

$125.00

20. Rebuild letter with Non Conforming       Use status

$300.00

21. Manufactured Home storage permit

$125.00

22. Manufactured Home storage permit       Renewal

$75.00

23. Temporary Use Permit

*$250.00

24. Home Occupation

$205.00

25. Non conforming Use Status

$350.00

26. Similar Use Designation

$325.00

27. Amendment to contingencies and       conditions

$175.00

28. Kennel License

$200.00 annual inspection

29. Surfacing & Buffering Waivers

$125.00

30. Site Development Plan

$800.00 + publication fee

31. Collocation of Antenna on Existing       Tower

$250.00

32. Zone Change with Site Development       Plan

$2150.00 + publication fee

* An hourly fee for each employee at that employee's hourly wage rate will be charged for each hour exceeding the initial application hours.

** This fee will only be charged if the holder of a Conditional Use or Special Review Use Permit does not submit documents required as a condition of the approval of the permit (i.e., copies of current leases [prior to expiration], copies of annual mining reports to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, renewed stormwater permits, air pollution permits, technical revisions, etc.) to the Department of Planning and Zoning on an annual basis or as otherwise required. If the Department has to notify the permit holder that such documents have not been submitted, then the fee will be charged. If the fee and required documents are not submitted to the department within 20 days of the department notification to the permit holder, violation procedures will commence.

A full application fee will be charged to the applicant if all deficiencies, as per the initial application review letter, are not adequately addressed or provided. Each subsequent deficiency review letter will result in another full application fee. All such fees shall be paid along with the deficiency submittal, prior to any further review of the application.

Any application for a use permit or change of zoning that has been initiated after the use requiring a permit or change has been established on the property shall be subject to a penalty fee in addition to the set application fee for such permit or change. The penalty fee will be the same amount as the application fee set for such permit or change. In effect, a double application fee shall be charged at the time of application in such circumstances (i.e., the application fee for a Special Review Use Permit is $1,800, the penalty fee would be $1,800 and, therefore, the application fee for a permit to house the proposed use would be $3,600). For these purposes, an application for Home Occupation shall not be considered as a use permit application. As with all land use applications, payment of application fees do not insure approval of the application.

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & ZONING
SUBDIVISION APPLICATION FEES
EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 2006

TYPE OF APPLICATION

FEE

  1. Sketch Plan

* $1,000.00

  2. Preliminary Plan **

* $2,475.00 + publication fee

  3. Final Plat

* $1,450.00 + publication fee

  4. Minor Subdivision

* $1,625.00

  5. Lot Line Adjustment

$600.00

  6. LLA w/public meeting

$800.00

  7. Boundary Line Adjustment

$600.00

  8. BLA w/public meeting

$800.00

  9. Vacation of Interior Lot Line

$600.00

10. VIL with public meeting

$800.00

11. Vacation of Public Right-of-Way

$800.00

12. VPR with LLA

$1,200.00

13. VPR with LLA with public meeting

$1,250.00

14. Correction Plat

$325.00

15. Subdivision Reg Variance/Waiver

$350.00

16. Site Specific Development Plan

$325.00

17. Extension of contingency deadline

$150.00

18. Amendment to contingencies

$175.00

19. Issuance of Address

$75.00

20. Renaming of street or road

$125.00

* Includes professional service fees, such as drainage plan review and/or roadway design plan and profile review by a Colorado Professional Engineer but does not include the publication fee.

** Additional fees will be required for preliminary plan reviews by the Colorado Geologic Survey and the Colorado State Forest Service as required by Colorado Revised Statutes and the Colorado Forest Service.

A full application fee will be charged to the applicant, if all deficiencies, as per the initial application review letter, are not adequately addressed or provided. Each subsequent deficiency review letter will result in another full application fee. All such fees shall be paid along with the deficiency submittal, prior to any further review of the application.