Palm Beach officials are scrambling to reinvent the town’s system of setting building permit fees in preparation for a new state law that will bar municipalities from using estimated construction value to determine the fees.
“House Bill 803 in my opinion is the most damaging set of state regulations to impact our building division that we have encountered in at least the last decade,” Wayne Bergman, director of the Town’s Planning, Zoning and Building Department, said at a May 12 Town Council meeting.
If the town does not adopt a new fee system, the change could represent a notable loss in revenue for the town, Bergman said, although he did not provide specific details…