Application and Fee Information

Application & Fee Information

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2025:

In an effort to align more consistently with what is required by the County Planning entity according to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), all Subdivision and Land Development Plans submitted for review by the Blair Planning Commission are subject to the following criteria. Review Requests must be submitted by the municipality as one complete packet; incomplete requests will not be accepted if submitted by multiple parties at various times.

Application Package for Subdivision and Land Development Reviews

1. Cover letter and review fee from the municipality with jurisdiction

2. Project narrative

3. Hard copy of plan documents, to include the following:

Parcel identifiers (Tax Parcel #)
Lot layout and total number of lots
Parking area(s) with municipal standards shown
Access to surrounding roads and properties (state or local road delineation)
Current FEMA floodplain delineation, as applicable
Wetland delineation, as applicable
Steep slope (>25%) delineation, as applicable
Total site acreage and acreage per lot
Area of individual lots and total square footage of proposed buildings
Existing structures

4. Digital submission of plan documents in PDF file format in addition to hard copy

5. Review fee

Any supplemental information such as the following may also be included for review:

Sewage Facilities Planning documentation and forms
Storm Water Management Plan (or statement)
Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan (or statement)
Utilities statement (water supply and wastewater treatment)
Proposed number of employees (non-residential developments)
Traffic data for developments (average daily trips, anticipated route, travel on site)
Basic design standard information (frontage, setbacks, height, zoning, land use, etc.)

For all development reviews, please remit payment for the fee amount. This can be done by clicking below or by tendering a check, made payable to the Blair County Planning Commission. Send the application package to: Blair Planning, 423 Allegheny Street, Suite 046, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648. PDFs can be emailed to Rhonda Kelly at rkelly@blairplanning.org.

** No review shall be made without payment of the fee and a letter from the host municipality authorizing the review. **

For further information, please call (814) 693-2080 x1.

Blair County Planning Commission

Development Review Fee Schedule

Effective July 1, 2023

Municipal Land Owner and Applicant (current on local share payment, otherwise use rates below)

$0 All applications (included in annual local share)

Sewage Planning Only

$50 Act 537 Planning w/o concurrent Act 247 Approval

Residential Activity

$175 No-Build Residential Subdivision (w/ Act 537 Planning or Non-Building Waivers)

$300 Residential Subdivision or Land Development w/o New Road Construction (w/Act 537 Planning)

w/ an additional $50/lot for each lot over five, max fee of $2,000

$1000 Residential Subdivision or Land Development w/ New Road Construction (w/ Act 537 Planning)

w/ an additional $50/lot for each lot over five, max fee of $2,500

Non-Residential Activity

$200 Non-Residential Incidental Improvements (i.e. improvement activities w/o building permit , and agricultural

development without commercial parking)

$300 No-Build Commercial, Industrial or Institutional Subdivision (w/ Act 537 Planning)

$1,000 Commercial, Industrial or Institutional Development (w/ Act 537 Planning) up to 50,000 ft² of building construction

w/ an additional $100 for each 5,000 ft² over 50,000 ft² or 1.148 acres of disturbed surface, max fee of $4,000

(greater than 150,000 sq ft or 3.4 acres).

Shop Rate

$85 Hourly rate for any application, project, or professional service that is not covered by the above fee schedule.

$70 Municipal and county rate for additional professional services beyond those described below under Local Share.

* Fees for all projects in municipalities that are not current on the local share payment will be increased by $250.

Municipal Local Share
Beginning in 2025, the municipal local share structure is changed to better capture costs. This concept was first discussed publicly during the development of the 2020 Strategic Plan. It was then refined through multiple discussions at subsequent meetings of the Government Advisory Committee and at each of the annual municipal outreach meetings. The structure outlined below is the structure that found consensus among the stakeholders.

The per capita share remains in place for the bulk of the local share. This covers grant matches, certain administrative items, certain professional development activities, and office management not otherwise covered elsewhere. In 2025, the per capita local share is 45¢, which is 75% of the overall base local share rate of 60¢.

A quarter of the local share will now be devoted to provide twenty hours of professional assistance to the municipalities. This amount can be transferred between municipalities and deferred up to three years. In 2025, this amounts to $1,417.18 per municipality. Additional hours may be purchased directly from Blair Planning if needed at the current shop rate of $70/hr. for municipal and county government current on the local share assessment.

Local share invoices go out following the September meeting of the Blair Government Advisory Committee and are payable between January 1 and March 31. If we do not receive payment by June 30, all locally generated services, and most state and federal grant-based services will be cut off and higher development review fees will apply to the non-paying municipality.

We accept payments for plan reviews online. Click the button to the right and follow the on-screen prompts.

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We can also process payments over the phone and in-person. And, of course, traditional checks still work!