Royal Oaks: County Commission Lists Permit-Fee Waiver Request for 554 Maher Road

ROYAL OAKS, Calif. — October 28, 2026. A permit-fee waiver request involving 554 Maher Road in Royal Oaks was on the Monterey County Planning Commission’s October 28 public agenda.

Filed as PLN240181 (Forsberg Nancy Lee & Celeste Lorenz TRS), the hearing concerns a request to waive fees associated with an existing county Planning file. The public agenda identifies the matter as PC 26-100.

A request, not an approved fee waiver

A waiver request and a completed waiver are different things. The agenda indicates commissioners were asked to consider the request; it does not show an adopted decision, a final dollar amount or approval of an underlying building project. The county proposed treating consideration of the fee waiver as an activity that is not a project under the cited California Environmental Quality Act provisions.

Where residents can check

Documents, staff reports and subsequent meeting records are available through the official Monterey County Planning Commission meeting page. Look for PLN240181 / PC 26-100.

The request is a distinct Royal Oaks land-use administration issue; coverage in California58 will be updated here if the county publishes a verified outcome.

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