SEQUIM – High-rises, how tall to build City Hall and how to pay for the city’s growth: Such were the topics that made for a lively town-hall-style meeting Monday night with the Sequim City Council and staff.

About 17 people, including Clallam County Commissioner Mike Doherty, solar-power pioneer Pat MacRobbie and Clallam County Planning Commissioner Ron Bell, pitched softballs and a few tougher questions at the city leaders.

For the most part they got straight answers.

Bell, an attorney, asked the council whether it had looked into imposing impact fees on developers.

“Growth should pay for growth,” he said, and other cities such as Olympia have used such fees to fund things like sewer upgrades and stoplights.

“We’re still in research mode on impact fees,” City Manager Bill Elliott replied, adding that the fee idea is “still alive and well.”