Chapter 3.30
FEE SCHEDULE
Sections:
3.30.020 Additional fees and costs.
3.30.030 Availability of schedule.
3.30.040 Administrative charge.
3.30.010 Fee schedule.
The schedule of fees and charges for the following permits, applications, petitions, inspections, and other services or reviews is as follows:
Fee Schedule
A. Development and Land Use.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Permit to Move Building |
$80.00 |
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Shoreline Substantial Development Permit |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to eight hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Shoreline Conditional Use Permit |
$650.00 |
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Includes up to five hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Shoreline Variance Permit |
$800.00 |
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Includes up to five hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Shoreline Exemption |
$100.00 |
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Conditional Use Permit |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to eight hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Variance—Zoning and/or Development Standards |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to five hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Zoning Map Amendment |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to eight hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Zoning Text Amendment |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to eight hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Short Subdivision Filing and Inspection |
$500.00 |
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Plus $50.00 per lot |
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Preliminary Long Subdivision |
$1,000.00 |
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Plus $50.00 per lot. Includes up to twelve hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Final Long Division |
$500.00 |
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Plus $25.00 per lot |
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SEPA Environmental Checklist Review/Threshold Determination |
$350.00 |
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Amendments to application billed actual |
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EIS Preparation and Review (if required) |
$750.00 |
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Includes up to twelve hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Critical Areas Review |
$250.00 |
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Includes up to three hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Critical Areas Variance |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to five hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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General Binding Site Plan |
$1,000.00 |
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Includes up to eight hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Specific Binding Site Plan |
$500.00 |
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Annexation Petition |
$1,500.00 |
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Includes up to twelve hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Comprehensive Plan Amendment |
$1,000.00 |
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Includes up to twelve hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Boundary Line Adjustment |
$150.00 |
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Includes up to three hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Flood Area Development Permit |
$300.00 |
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Floodplain Development Variance |
$500.00 |
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Includes up to five hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Home Occupancy Consistency Review |
$100.00 |
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Other Land Use Application Fees: |
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Short-Term Rental Use—Permitted Use |
$100.00 |
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Short-Term Rental Use—Conditional Use |
$500.00 |
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Appeal of Administrative Decision |
$250.00 |
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Includes up to three hours of staff time; additional billed actual |
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Vacation of Street/Alley |
$500.00 |
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$500.00 minimum; maximum of one-half appraised value, plus other costs and fees as set forth in ordinance |
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Sewer Inspection |
$25.00 |
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Publications/Notices/Outside Reviews associated with application |
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Actual costs paid by applicant |
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B. Permits and Licensing.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Dog License (annual)—Spayed or Neutered |
$15.00 |
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Dog License (annual)—Non-Spayed or Neutered |
$25.00 |
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Business License Fee |
$40.00 |
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Right-of-Way Permit |
$50.00 |
C. Cemetery.
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Fee Name/Description |
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|---|---|
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Headstone setting |
$125.00 |
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Plot purchase—One interment |
$300.00 |
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Permanent care (one-time fee) |
$75.00 |
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Each additional interment |
$100.00 |
D. Miscellaneous.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Fingerprinting (per card)—Sumas resident (sales tax included) |
$15.00 |
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Fingerprinting (per card)—Nonresidents (sales tax included) |
$25.00 |
E. Water Utility.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Residential Rate |
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Tier 1 (first six hundred CF) |
$14.00 |
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Tier 2 (six hundred one CF and above) |
$0.0130 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per CF |
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Commercial Rate |
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Tier 1 (first six hundred CF) |
$14.00 |
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Tier 2 (six hundred one CF to five thousand CF) |
$0.0130 per CF |
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Tier 3 (five thousand one CF and above) |
$0.0136 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per CF |
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Water Associations and PSE Process |
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Tier 1 (first five hundred thousand CF) |
$0.0063 per CF |
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Tier 2 (five hundred thousand one CF and above) |
$0.0070 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per CF |
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Hydrant/Bulk Water Sales |
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Base fee |
$21.00 |
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Volume surcharge |
$0.0141 per CF |
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Hookup Fee |
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Three-quarters inches (per unit served by its own meter) |
$4,200.00 |
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One inch and larger (per unit served by its own meter) |
$4,500.00 |
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Additional units served by the same meter |
$2,100.00 |
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Other Water Fees |
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Reconnect fee (during office hours) |
$36.00 |
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Reconnect fee (after hours) |
$217.00 |
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Meter read (outside of bill cycle) |
$18.00 |
F. Sewer Utility.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Residential Rate (Subject to Summer Sewer Averages) |
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Base fee |
$12.70 |
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Tier 1 (first one thousand sixty CF) |
$0.0656 per CF |
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Tier 2 (one thousand sixty-one CF and above) |
$0.0689 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.003 per CF |
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Commercial |
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Base fee |
$12.70 |
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Tier 1 (first one thousand sixty CF) |
$0.0656 per CF |
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Tier 2 (one thousand sixty-one CF and above) |
$0.0689 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.003 per CF |
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Large Industrial (Contracted User) |
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Base fee |
$12.70 |
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Eighty thousand gallons per day |
$0.0485 per CF |
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Eighty thousand one gallons and above (per day) |
$0.0689 per CF |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.003 per CF |
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Hookup Fees |
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Residential—First unit |
$6,500.00 |
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Residential—Additional units |
$3,500.00 |
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Commercial and industrial (per ERU) |
$6,500.00 |
G. Stormwater Utility.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Residential Rate |
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Single-family unit |
$3.31 |
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Multifamily unit |
$7.72 |
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Commercial Rate |
$7.72 |
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Industrial Rate |
$27.56 |
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Hookup Fees |
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Parcels that have an existing stormwater line that is adequately constructed to the property line adjacent to the city’s storm sewer main line, as determined by the administrator of the utility. |
$555.00 |
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All other parcels |
$750.00 or actual (whichever is greater) |
H. Electric Utility.
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Fee Name/Description |
Current Fee |
|---|---|
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Residential Rate |
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Base fee |
$6.50 |
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Tier 1 |
$0.0890 per KWH |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per KWH |
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Public Authority and Small Commercial |
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Base fee |
$7.00 |
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Tier 1 (first five thousand KWH) |
$0.0890 per KWH |
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Tier 2 (five thousand one KWH to ten thousand KWH) |
$0.0935 per KWH |
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Tier 3 (ten thousand one KWH and above) |
$0.0982 per KWH |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per KWH |
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Large Commercial and Industrial |
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Demand #1 |
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Base fee |
$265.00 |
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Demand charges (per KW) |
$6.15 per KW |
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Demand #2 |
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Tier 1 (first four hundred thirty-five thousand KWH) |
$0.0671 per KWH |
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Tier 2 (four hundred thirty-five hundred thousand one KWH to eight hundred seventy thousand KWH) |
$0.0704 per KWH |
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Tier 3 (eight hundred seventy thousand one KWH and above) |
$0.0740 per KWH |
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Capital facilities fee |
$0.001 per KWH |
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Other Electric Fees |
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Residential—Temporary service connection |
$200.00 |
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Commercial/industrial—Temporary service connection |
$200.00 or actual cost (whichever is greater) |
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Reconnect fee (during office hours) |
$44.00 |
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Reconnect fee (after hours) |
$265.00 |
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Reconnect fee (four hundred amp or larger) |
$265.00 |
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Meter read (outside of billing cycle) |
$22.00 |
(Ord. 1827 § 1, 2025; Ord. 1817 § 1, 2024; Ord.1780 § 1, 2021; Ord. 1744 § 3, 2019: Ord. 1672 § 1, 2016: Ord. 1570 § 2 (part), 2011)
3.30.020 Additional fees and costs.
The fees and charges established in this chapter shall not preclude the collection of fees or charges adopted or enacted which have been omitted from this chapter. Additionally, in the event the amount of any fee or charge set forth in this chapter is inconsistent with the amount of any fee or charge set forth in the Sumas Municipal Code, the higher fee or charge shall be applied. (Ord. 1570 § 2 (part), 2011)
3.30.030 Availability of schedule.
The fee schedule established in this chapter shall be posted in a conspicuous place in City Hall and a copy of said schedule shall be made available to persons who request it. (Ord. 1570 § 2 (part), 2011)
3.30.040 Administrative charge.
A charge shall be applied to all fees and charges for the use of city facilities, the use of city equipment in connection with a work order, development and land use fees, utility connections, call outs and other services as an administrative charge, including for processing, monitoring, billing, clerical and other related or similar costs. The administrative charge shall be ten percent of the underlying fee or charge.
In the event that the city clerk/treasurer determines in his or her discretion that a category of fee or charge, other than a category specifically listed above, results in no material processing, monitoring, billing, clerical or other related or similar costs, then the administrative charge shall not be applied to that category of fee or charge. (Ord. 1678 § 1, 2016)