Elk Grove, CA Development Impact Fees (2026)

Scope: residential development fees a builder pays in the City of Elk Grove (Sacramento County). Figures are for a representative ~2,000-2,700 sq ft single-family detached home and a multifamily unit, expressed per dwelling unit. PRIMARY TOTAL is built from the seven CITYWIDE/regional development impact fee programs that apply to ALL development anywhere in the city (Capital Facilities, Affordable Housing, Roadway, Active Transportation, Fire, Measure A, I-5 Subregional), PLUS the separately-levied school fee (EGUSD), water connection (EGWD), and sewer impact fees (SacSewer collection + Regional San treatment).

Sources

All city DIFs are from the City's official "2026 Development Related Fees" booklet, Last Updated 1/1/2026 (verified via Internet Archive snapshot of the city's own current 49-page PDF because elkgrove.gov is behind a Cloudflare challenge / returns 403 to automated access). School fee is from the EGUSD Facilities & Planning page (live, confirmed). Water fee from EGWD Development Services page (verified via archive snapshot 2025-12-10; egwd.org returns 403). Sewer fees from SacSewer's official residential-rates-and-fees page (verified via archive snapshot 2025-02-13; sacsewer.com/regionalsan.com block automated access).

Size-tiered fees

Roadway and Active Transportation are tiered by home size. I used the 2,001-2,700 sq ft tier as the representative primary row and included other tiers with excludeFromTotal=true. Measure A is tiered too; used the "Large (>2,400 sq ft)" tier as primary (medium tier 1,601-2,400 also included, excluded). School fee is per-sq-ft; the per-DU dollar figure shown ($14,640) assumes a 2,000 sq ft home (rate x 2000) - adjust for actual square footage.

Mutually-exclusive / excluded from total

The Fire fee has 5 geographic zones; Zone 1 (Elk Grove) used as primary, Zones 2-5 excluded. Water connection has 2 service areas and multiple meter sizes; Service Area 1 with a 1" meter (smallest published) is primary; Service Area 2 ($926, only a meter charge - infrastructure paid via other means) and larger meters excluded. Sewer collection (SacSewer) and treatment (Regional San) each have new-community vs infill variants; new-community/standard variant used as primary, infill excluded. PLAN-AREA park/drainage fees (Stonelake, Laguna Ridge, LRSP Supplemental, East Franklin, Eastern Elk Grove, SEPA Park/Trail, SEPA/LRSP Drainage) apply ONLY within their specific plan areas and are mutually exclusive by location - a given lot is in at most one. These are all marked excludeFromTotal=true; they are real and often very large (e.g., SEPA Park+Trail = $25,989/unit; LRSP Supplemental Park = $21,216/unit) and a builder in those areas WILL pay them in lieu of (not in addition to) a general citywide park fee.

What does not exist / caveats

(1) Elk Grove has NO standalone citywide 'parks' impact fee for single-family outside the plan areas - parks are funded through the geographically-specific plan-area park programs (passed through to Cosumnes CSD) and Quimby Act land dedication. (2) NO citywide drainage impact fee - drainage is plan-area specific (SEPA/LRSP). (3) NO separate citywide police or general-government impact fee line item - police facilities are a COMPONENT of the Capital Facilities Fee (CFF), which also funds civic center, corporation yard, animal shelter, library, and transit; reported as one general/capital row to avoid double counting. (4) NO library impact fee separate from CFF. (5) Mello-Roos/CFD special taxes (Zones 2-5 fire, Lakeside, Laguna West, EGUSD Mello-Roos) are OUT OF SCOPE and NOT included. (6) School fee: EGUSD charges $7.32/sq ft residential (through 6/30/2026; drops to $7.23/sq ft on 7/1/2026), justified via a Level 2/3 Needs Analysis, collected before permit issuance. (7) Sewer: a NEW SUBDIVISION (parcel recorded on/after 7/1/2003) pays the SacSewer collection fee per NET ACRE ($26,421/acre expansion) rather than per ESD; the $4,374/ESD primary row reflects a single home on a pre-2003 lot - both documented. (8) All city DIFs auto-adjust each Jan 1 (most) or Jul 1 (Measure A, I-5).

Verify

confirmed 38 of 38 rows against their cited sources; dropped 0. All city DIF rows confirmed verbatim against the archived 1/1/2026 city booklet (CFF SFD $5,678/MF $4,235, Affordable $6,354/$3,812, Roadway tiers $13,007.76/$15,125.32/$16,637.85/$17,696.61, Active Transp $999.82/$2,437.55/$2,681.48, Fire Zone 1-5 $2,651.69/$2,588.40/$2,466.05/$2,559.93/$2,433.36 + MF $1,745.66, Measure A Large $1,793.16/Med $1,630.98/MF $1,492.26, I-5 $4,192.66/$2,598.51, Stonelake $4,213, East Franklin $10,731, Eastern Elk Grove $8,581.60, Laguna Ridge $5,136, LRSP Suppl $21,216, SEPA Park+Trail $25,989, SEPA/LRSP Drainage North Sub-Shed $35,194). EGUSD $7.32/sq ft confirmed live; $14,640 is a computed 2,000 sq ft figure (medium confidence). EGWD Service Area 1 1" = $4,479+$926=$5,405 and SA2 1" = $926 confirmed via archive (Ord. 8.15.18.01). SacSewer collection $4,374/ESD (pre-2003) & $26,421/acre (post-2003) and Regional San treatment $6,479/$3,283 ESD + $4,859 MF confirmed via archive. Primary SFD total reconciles to $70,886.84 with no double-counting (Police $1,405 and Library $1,646 correctly excluded as CFF sub-components). excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE - all flags were correct on review.

Correction

Swainson's Hawk fee amount changed from researcher's placeholder $0 (confidence low) to the booklet's actual published figure $17,840/acre ($17,396/acre acquisition+admin + $444/acre monitoring), confidence raised to high; remains excludeFromTotal=true (per-acre habitat mitigation, only on suitable habitat, not a per-DU fee).