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Charged in essentially every jurisdiction

Plan review fee

A separate charge for checking the drawings against code, commonly a percentage of the permit fee.

Who charges it

The building department, sometimes a third-party reviewer

The trap

Resubmittals after a rejection are frequently billed again. Two rounds of corrections can cost more than the original review.

Plan review is commonly set as a percentage of the building permit fee, often in the range of half to two-thirds, though this is entirely local.

Third-party review is increasingly common where departments are backlogged. It is usually faster and usually more expensive, and it is sometimes optional, which makes it a schedule-versus-cost decision worth asking about explicitly.

Expedited review programs exist in many jurisdictions for an additional fee. Whether that is worth it depends on your carry cost, which you know and the counter does not.

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Get the actual numberSix steps from parcel record to a written estimate. Check your stateWhat is authorized where you are building. Credits and offsetsWhere this fee can legally come down.
Read this before you rely on anything here. Impact Fee Map describes who is legally allowed to charge new construction, for what, and what a fee payer's rights are under state law. It does not publish fee amounts for any city, county or district, and it never will, because no source keeps thirty-nine thousand local schedules current and a stale number is worse than none. This is not legal advice, not a fee quote and not a substitute for the adopted fee schedule of the bodies with jurisdiction over your parcel. Statutes change; verify against the current text and confirm every figure in writing with the agency that will bill you.