Queen Creek, AZ Development Impact Fees (2026)

Queen Creek, AZ (Maricopa County) levies development/impact fees as "development fees" under ARS 9-463.05, plus separate water and wastewater (sewer) "capacity fees." TWO distinct schedules apply and BOTH are included as additive, current fees a residential builder pays: 1) DEVELOPMENT FEE SCHEDULE — effective May 12, 2025 (5-year study cycle; do not escalate). Per the Town's adopted schedule, the infrastructure improvements plan covers exactly these necessary public services under ARS 9-463.05(D): parks & recreation, transportation (streets), fire, and public safety (police). The fee schedule itemizes these as five line items: Parks Facilities, Trails, Police Facilities, Street Facilities, Fire Facilities. For Single Family Detached (PRIMARY land use, flat per-unit, NOT tiered by home size): Parks $1,933 + Trails $128 + Police $422 + Streets $1,189 + Fire $840 = $4,512/unit. For 2+ Multi-Family: Parks $1,510 + Trails $100 + Police $330 + Streets $803 + Fire $656 = $3,399/unit. 2) CAPACITY FEE SCHEDULE — effective Jan 5, 2026. Water and wastewater capacity fees are charged by water METER size and are collected at building permit issuance, IN ADDITION TO meter installation fees. Using the base residential 3/4" (0.75") meter: Water Capacity Fee = $2,382; Residential Sewer Capacity Fee = $6,144. Multi-Family units are assessed a sewer capacity fee of $4,608/unit (per schedule note 3). Other meter sizes (1", 1.5", 2"+) are mutually-exclusive variants of the same fee and are excluded from the primary total. Water capacity fee is the same for residential and non-residential ("ALL").

Categories that do not exist here

NO school impact fee (not an authorized category under Arizona law). NO library, NO drainage/stormwater, NO open space, NO affordable housing, NO general/capital, and NO standalone mitigation impact fee — the ARS 9-463.05 plan is limited to parks/recreation, transportation, fire, and public safety (police). No separate highway/road district or independent water/sewer district levies a builder fee here — water and sewer are Town-operated utilities. NOT INCLUDED (out of scope): construction permit fees and plan review fees (valuation-based); the $500 meter cost, $25 meter installation/est fee, and $125 security deposit (service/connection administrative charges, not impact/capacity fees). Diversified Water Utility service area has its own separate rates and is not the primary Town schedule.

Verify

confirmed 15 of 15 rows; dropped 0. Both source PDFs were independently re-retrieved using full browser headers + Sec-Ch-Ua client hints (Akamai 403-blocks simple requests, confirming the researcher's caveat). Doc 40782 (effective Jan 5, 2026) contains BOTH the Capacity Fee Schedule AND the Development Fee Schedule — its development fee figures are byte-for-byte identical to the May-12-2025 image-only PDF (doc 40036), giving an extra cross-check that the development fees remain current. Doc 40036 is image-only and was confirmed by rendering to PNG and reading visually: SFD Parks $1,933 / Trails $128 / Police $422 / Streets $1,189 / Fire $840 and MF Parks $1,510 / Trails $100 / Police $330 / Streets $803 / Fire $656 all confirmed exactly. Capacity PDF text layer confirms 0.75" meter: Water ALL $2,382, Sewer Residential $6,144; 1.00" meter: Water ALL $3,978, Sewer Residential $6,144; and verbatim note "(3) Multi-Family units are assessed sewer capacity fees of $4,608.00 per unit." The capacity-fee sourceQuotes are tabular reconstructions (column labels + row value) but every label and number is present and correct in the source. Webpage sources (indices 2,3,4) return HTTP 403 via WebFetch and could not be re-confirmed live; however they are cited only as overview/cross-checks and are NOT the source for any numeric fee row (all rows cite sourceIndex 0 or 1, both fully confirmed). excludeFromTotal corrections: none needed — the two 1"-meter variant rows are correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true; the 0.75" water+sewer and all development-fee rows are correctly retained in the primary total (no double-counting; SFD all-in primary = $4,512 development + $2,382 water + $6,144 sewer = $13,038/unit).