The City of Troutdale has consolidated fees, rates, charges, and system development charges that were previously spread across numerous separate resolutions, ordinances, and departmental schedules into a single Master Fee Schedule. The goal is to make city fees easier for residents, businesses, and developers to find and understand.
Below is a guide to what's in the full fee schedule, organized by section, so you can go directly to the information relevant to you.
Quick summary: Residents will find most of what applies to them in Sections 1, 2, and 7 (records requests, parking, utility bills, park and facility rentals). Anyone building or renovating should go directly to Section 4. Those developing land will want Sections 3 and 6, particularly the System Development Charge (SDC) tables.
The resolution itself (pages 1–3)
Before the fee tables start, there's a short city council resolution. The important points:
- It formally consolidates every city fee — records requests, permits, utility rates, park rentals, court costs, system development charges — into this single document.
- The City Manager can make minor formatting/organizational corrections, but any real change to a fee still requires a council resolution.
- Council passed it 6–1 on May 12, 2026, with Councilor White dissenting; the mayor signed May 18.
- It took effect July 1, 2026.
Section 1 — General fees, all departments (pages 3–5)
The catch-all section. This is where you'd look for everyday city-hall interactions:
- Public records requests and document copies (per-page copy costs, plus staff-time billing for larger requests — note staff hourly rates roughly doubled or more from prior rates)
- Business licenses, home-occupation licenses, temporary and peddler licenses
- Liquor license application fees
- Lien checks, NSF check fees, new-resident lists
- Utility-related penalties: late fees, deposits, illegal water use, meter lock-cutting
- A flat $25/month per residential unit "Police and Fire Services Fee"
- A 3.5% surcharge on online card payments
Section 2 — Public Safety (pages 6–9)
Police and court-adjacent fees:
- Police report and record copy costs
- Parking and traffic fines — a full table covering everything from an expired meter ($50) to blocking a fire hydrant ($155) to an abandoned vehicle ($285)
- Alarm permits and false-alarm penalties, split into residential and commercial tables, with fines escalating from $0 on a first false alarm up to $300 for a fifth-plus
- Tow release and special-event officer staffing charges
Section 3 — Planning (pages 9–11)
For anyone dealing with land use, zoning, or development applications:
- Annexations and map/text amendments ($5,500 flat or deposit)
- Land divisions: lot line adjustments, partitions, subdivisions, middle-housing land divisions
- Conditional use permits, variances, sign permits, flood hazard permits
- Appeals of planning decisions
- A refund schedule for withdrawn applications (75% back if withdrawn early, scaling down to 25%)
Section 4 — Building permits (pages 12–25)
If you're a contractor or homeowner pulling a permit, this is the section to read closely — the fee for your project depends on which trade and which valuation bracket you fall into. It's by far the longest section, covering every trade:
- Structural/general building permits, priced on a sliding valuation scale (e.g., a $50,000 project costs $657 plus incremental rates above that)
- Separate valuation-based tables for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, solar/wind, fire sprinkler, and manufactured-home permits
- Standard add-ons that apply across nearly all permit types: a plan review fee (often 25–65% of the permit fee), a 5% technology fee, a 0.5% Community Development fee on project valuation, state surcharges, reinspection fees, and after-hours inspection fees
Section 5 — Nuisance abatement (page 25)
Monthly penalties for uncorrected code violations, scaled by property size ($50–$200/month), doubling after six months of non-compliance, plus lien-related fees.
Section 6 — Public Works (pages 26–30)
Infrastructure and utilities:
- Right-of-way work permits, plan review, and pavement disturbance fees
- Water/sewer/stormwater monthly utility rates (e.g., water at $5.89 per thousand gallons)
- A 50% sewer discount for qualifying seniors/disabled residents
- Water meter installation and hydrant meter rental charges
- System Development Charges (SDCs) — the one-time charges paid on new construction for water, sewer, transportation, stormwater, and parks capacity. These are the big-dollar items: for example, a new water hookup carries a $9,571 SDC, and Parks SDCs run $13,089 per dwelling unit. These adjust automatically each year for construction-cost inflation.
Section 7 — City buildings and parks (pages 31–33)
Rental rates for the Sam Cox Building, Kellogg Community Room, and City Conference Building (resident vs. non-resident pricing), park pavilion reservations, athletic field use fees, and the Glenn Otto Park paid-parking program (free for pre-registered Troutdale residents, $2/hour or $10/day for everyone else) with associated parking-violation fines.
Section 8 — Everything else, plus Municipal Court costs (pages 34+)
A catch-all for services not otherwise listed (billed at cost plus overhead), followed by the Municipal Court's own fee schedule — bail processing, DUII diversion fees, deferred payment plans, warrant fees, and collections referral charges. This part is set separately by the Municipal Court Judge, not the City Council.