Glendale, AZ Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Glendale

$14,496 total per unit across 7 fee categories.

Glendale’s $14,496 is close to the Arizona tracked median of $15,719.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Coverage & caveats

All figures come from the City of Glendale "Development Impact Fee Schedule" dated 09/08/2025 (current adopted schedule, hosted on glendaleaz.gov). Glendale splits fees into TWO mutually-exclusive geographic service areas: EAST GLENDALE (city-served, where the city provides water/wastewater utility) and WEST GLENDALE (city does NOT provide water/wastewater there — Utility Development Fees are $0 — but the city's street impact fee is slightly higher). I used EAST GLENDALE as the PRIMARY (it carries the fullest fee load including utility SDFs); every WEST GLENDALE variant is marked excludeFromTotal=true. PRIMARY = single_family_detached in East Glendale. TWO FEE FAMILIES, both real and ADDITIVE to each other: (1) Development Impact Fees per Development/Housing Unit — categories: Fire, Library, Parks & Recreation, Police, Streets (transportation). For East Glendale single family: Fire $850, Library $355, Parks & Rec $1,194, Police $702, Streets $4,270 (schedule's stated total $7,371). Multifamily ("Multi-family, 2 or more units per structure") is per housing unit: Fire $575, Library $240, Parks & Rec $808, Police $475, Streets $3,054 (total $5,152). (2) Utility Development Fees (Arizona System Development Fees under ARS 9-463.05) charged by water METER size, "All Development Types (per Meter)." Per the state-context rule I used the base residential 3/4" meter: Water $3,330 + Wastewater $3,795 = $7,125. These are separate water/wastewater capacity (connection) SDFs, additive on top of the impact fees. Larger meters (1"–8") are included as excludeFromTotal rows. West Glendale utility development fees are $0 for all meter sizes (city is not the water/sewer provider there). GRAND TOTAL for a representative East Glendale single-family detached (3/4" meter) = impact fees $7,371 + water SDF $3,330 + wastewater SDF $3,795 = approximately $14,496 in city-collected development/system fees. WHAT DOES NOT EXIST HERE: NO school impact fee — Arizona statute (ARS 9-500.18 and 15-189.01) does not authorize municipal school impact/construction fees, and Glendale's schedule has no school category. NO separate standalone drainage/flood, general-government/capital, open-space, or affordable-housing impact fee line appears on Glendale's schedule (those categories are not levied as named impact fees). Streets is the transportation/roads category. The schedule lists no general "general/capital" impact fee. There is no county-level residential impact fee in Maricopa County applicable here, and no separate highway-district or water-district fee for a builder inside Glendale's city-served (East) area beyond the city's own utility development fees. AZ SDFs do NOT auto-escalate (set on a ~5-year study cycle), so these amounts hold until the next adopted study. Nonresidential impact fees (industrial/commercial/office/institutional/assisted-living/lodging, per 1,000 sq ft or per bed/room) are also published and included as excludeFromTotal reference rows. VERIFY: The primary source PDF is Akamai/edge-blocked to curl and WebFetch (HTTP 403) and is an image-based (scanned) PDF with no extractable text layer (only the title "City of Glendale Development Impact Fee Schedule" and date "09/08/2025" are real text). I obtained the live file through an authenticated browser session (fetch returned the genuine 482,111-byte %PDF-1.6 document), rendered each page's embedded image XObjects, and OCR'd them in-browser; I then read each fee cell directly from the document images. confirmed 24 of 24 rows; dropped 0. Every reported dollar figure matched the official schedule exactly, and component sums reconciled to the schedule's stated totals (East SF 850+355+1194+702+4270=7,371; East MF 575+240+808+475+3054=5,152; West SF Streets $4,575 total 7,676; West MF Streets $3,271 total 5,369; Utility 0.75" 3,330+3,795=7,125; 1.00" 5,561+6,337=11,898; 1.50" 11,089+12,636=23,725; 2.00" 17,748+20,225=37,973; nonresidential Streets Industrial $745 total $1,091, Commercial $5,543 total $7,554, Office $2,396 total $3,470). Independently confirmed the table headers ("East Glendale Residential Fee per Development Unit"; "East Glendale Utility Development Fees, All Development Types (per Meter)"; "West Glendale Utility Development Fees ... Total Fee $0"). excludeFromTotal corrections: none needed — the researcher's normalization was already correct (East SF + 0.75" Water + 0.75" Wastewater are the only three included rows; all multifamily, West Glendale, larger-meter, and nonresidential variants correctly carry excludeFromTotal=true). Confidence held at high for all rows because each was read directly from the official source document.

Source is an image-based PDF table; figures verified by rendering the schedule's embedded page images and reading each cell via in-browser OCR (cross-checked against the schedule's own stated totals). "Total Fee" columns in the schedule are the city's own stated per-unit sums. Utility Development Fees are per water meter; 3/4" is the standard residential service used as primary. East vs West Glendale residential impact fees differ ONLY in the Streets line (West slightly higher) and in utility fees (West = $0).

Sources

4 official sources · 21 high-confidence figures.

Glendale impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Glendale, AZ for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Glendale are about $14,496 per unit — roughly $7,371 in impact/development fees plus $7,125 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

Are impact fees in Glendale the same as building permit fees?

No. Impact fees (and water/sewer connection fees) fund off-site capital — roads, parks, schools, utilities — and are charged per new dwelling unit. Building permit and plan-review fees are separate and are not included here.

How often do Glendale's impact fees change?

Most jurisdictions adopt fees by ordinance and escalate them annually (often by a construction cost index), with occasional mid-year updates. Always confirm the current adopted schedule with the jurisdiction. ImpactFeeAtlas last verified Glendale on 2026-06-17.