Building fee waiver for hurricane victims in Rockville Centre

The Rockville Centre Board of Trustees announced that residential property owners will not have to pay the usual permit fees when rebuilding property damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

According to Village spokesman Jeff Kluewer, the waiver will be offered for six months and applies to “in kind” replacement construction as a result of the hurricane, not to any additional improvements.

“We do not want to impose any further burden on victims of this terrible storm,” said Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murray. “The Board decided that the Village would forgo these fees in order to help with the post-storm recovery,” he said.

All proposed rebuilding work must still go through the usual permit process for construction and for all electrical and plumbing work, but the permit fees will be waived unless the property owner’s insurance recovery includes the fee payment.