Every fee a new building can be charged

Two of these are certain everywhere. The rest depend on your state, your jurisdiction and which districts happen to serve your parcel. Each page explains who charges it, what it pays for, and where the money is usually hiding.

Building permit feeThe charge for reviewing and issuing the permit itself, usually scaled to declared valuation or square footage.Charged everywhere Plan review feeA separate charge for checking the drawings against code, commonly a percentage of the permit fee.Charged everywhere Impact feeA one-time charge on new development to pay for its share of capital facilities, calculated from a nexus study.Conditional Water tap or connection feeA one-time charge to connect to the water system, usually split between the physical tap and a capacity or system development component.Conditional Sewer tap or connection feeA one-time charge to connect to the sanitary sewer, again typically a tap component plus a capacity component.Conditional School impact feeA charge tied to the students a new home is projected to generate, usually assessed per square foot or per unit.Conditional Park and recreation feeA charge for park land and facilities, sometimes structured as land dedication with a payment in lieu.Conditional Road or traffic impact feeA charge based on projected vehicle trips generated by the project, benchmarked against trip generation tables.Conditional Fire and police impact feeA charge for stations, apparatus and equipment needed to extend emergency coverage to new development.Conditional Stormwater and drainage feeA charge tied to added impervious surface and the downstream capacity it consumes.Conditional In-lieu and inclusionary feesA payment substituting for a physical obligation, most often affordable units or park land.Conditional Other utility chargesLine extension charges, meter deposits, transformer costs and aid-in-construction payments.Conditional

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.