Jim Drummond

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rising costs have led the Yorba Linda City Council to update several hundred user and regulatory fees that are charged to residents and developers for city-provided services in planning, building and dozens of other categories.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A lottery to determine eligibility to purchase eight below-market-rate townhome units on the west side of Yorba Linda is part of a housing agreement between the city and the developer Olson Company, approved on a unanimous vote by the City Council at a May 19 meeting.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... School-related fees paid by developers on new residential and commercial construction in the 40-square-mile Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District will increase soon after the start of the new fiscal year that begins July 1. Fees on new residential development will jump 54.6% from $3.48 per-square-foot to $5.38 per-square-foot. Fees on new commercial-industrial development will jump 55.4% from 56 cents per-square-foot to 87 cents per-square-foot.