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Cost Appeal Process
  1. After exhausting all avenues of remedy with Planning and Development Services staff to resolve your dispute over the amount of time charged to your plan, project or permit, you may ask for review of your complaint by the Administrative Review Board
  2. The Administrative Review Board, when established by the Board of Supervisor will conduct hearings, receive and consider evidence, and render a final administrative decision on the merits of your claim.
  3. A decision by the Administrative Review Board will be binding on the County. The applicant is not bound by the decision and can still seek redress in a court of law.
  4. To initiate a request for a hearing before the Administrative Review Board, please contact the ARB Hearing Officer within 30 days of receipt of either:
    • The final accounting of the permit costs, or
    • A request by the County for additional deposits
  5. The Hearing Officer can be contacted by writing to:
  6. Administrative Review Board
    Resources & Development Management Department
    Planning and Development Services
    300 N. Flower, 3rd Floor, Attn: ARB
    Santa Ana, CA 92702
    or, by faxing a request to (714) 834-2771, or by e-mail