The fee waiver program has ended.

The fee waiver program approved by the Lane County Board of Commissioners for Holiday Farm Fire survivors has ended.

The fee waivers were available for a five-year period to the original owners of dwellings or commercial properties at the time they were destroyed. The fee waivers were also available to relatives of the original property owners if ownership was transferred to a relative since the fire.

Fees were waived for:

• building and sanitation permits required to reconstruct or repair lawfully established dwellings or commercial properties that were damaged or destroyed by the Holiday Farm Fire.

• the following Type 1 planning applications when they were required to enable the repair or replacement of a damaged or destroyed dwelling:

  • floodplain verification (office)

  • floodplain development permit

  • fill or removal permit

  • riparian declaration

  • temporary hardship dwelling

  • Type 1 legal lot determination

Fee Waivers for Dwellings

Fee waivers applied to:

• primary residences

• second homes

• temporary medical hardship dwellings

• rental properties

Fee Waivers for Commercial Properties

Fee waivers applied to:

• businesses that were lost during the Holiday Farm Fire and that operated on land zoned commercial and/or have received special use permits

Agricultural buildings did not qualify for the waiver.

The commercial waiver program was made possible in part by the Lane County Community & Economic Development Division.