Fresno, CA Development Impact Fees (2026)

RESIDENTIAL development fees for a builder in the City of Fresno, CA, for a representative ~2,250 sq ft single-family detached home. All City figures are from the current City of Fresno Master Fee Schedule, Amendment #585, effective 07/01/2025. Fees adjust every July 1 to the ENR 20-City Construction Cost Index. CITY OF FRESNO IMPACT FEES (per dwelling unit unless noted): Fire $2,279.42; Police $945.68; Park Facility incl. Quimby $5,095.54; Traffic Signal Mitigation $760.15. Plus utility connection charges: Water Capacity Fee (3/4" meter) $3,542.34; Wastewater Facilities Sewer Charge $2,119.00/unit. PER-ACRE STREET FEES (NOT per unit, excluded from per-DU total): Fresno levies its major transportation impact fees on a GROSS-ACRE basis. Citywide Locally Regionally Significant Street Fee = $8,761.56/acre (residential low-med). New Growth Area Major Street Fee = $27,422.91/acre (residential low-med; INCLUDES the citywide charge, mutually exclusive). The per-home cost depends on project density; cannot be normalized to per-unit without a density assumption.

Separate-district fees

(1) SCHOOL FEE - Fresno Unified School District levies $4.79/sq ft residential (Reso 21-45, eff 8/15/2022), i.e. ~$10,777.50 for a 2,250 sq ft home; the City spans multiple districts (Fresno/Central/Clovis/Sanger Unified) so the rate varies by parcel. (2) RTMF - Fresno County Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee (FCOG/Measure C) = $2,118/SFR market rate (eff 3/1/2020). (3) DRAINAGE - Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District (FMFCD) drainage fee varies by zone; no single representative figure, OMITTED.

Conditional/situational

Trunk Sewer Charges ($344-$496/living unit, only in named service areas Cornelia/Fowler/Grantland/Herndon - confirmed and excluded). Other excluded items: sewer lateral/oversize charges, water frontage charge, Copper Avenue/Copper River Ranch fees. Most UGM-area parcels pay a UGM Trunk Sewer Fee computed per-acre by the Development Department.

What does not exist

no standalone city-levied school impact fee; no separate city library, open-space, affordable-housing/inclusionary, or general/capital facilities impact fee in the current MFS. ADUs under 750 sq ft are exempt from City impact fees; ADUs over 750 sq ft pay the multifamily rate.

Verify

confirmed 14 of 15 rows; dropped 1.

Dropped

"VMT Mitigation Fee" $295 (sourceIndex 0, Planning MFS) - the sourceQuote "Vehicle Miles Traveled Mitigation Fee (charged per unit of VMT) 295.00" does NOT appear anywhere in the cited Planning PDF; zero matches for "VMT", "vehicle miles", "miles traveled", or "295" across the entire 3,680-line extracted document. Unconfirmable -> dropped per default rule. excludeFromTotal corrections: added excludeFromTotal=true to the "Citywide Locally Regionally Significant Street Impact Fee" row (unitBasis=per_acre, area-based, mutually exclusive with the New Growth Area street fee, and the researcher's own notes stated it was excluded but the flag was missing). All other excludeFromTotal flags (Fire MFR, New Growth street fee, Trunk Sewer Herndon, FUSD per-sqft) were already correct. Note correction: researcher claimed CA SAB max rose to $5.38/sq ft; the FUSD source actually states the current SAB maximum residential fee is $5.17/sq ft (does not affect the levied $4.79 rate). No double-counting in the per-DU primary total; the surviving per-DU rows (Fire, Police, Park, Traffic Signal, Water, Sewer Phase 1b, FUSD school, RTMF) are mutually compatible. Unused but live source (FY23 Development Impact Fee Summary, sourceIndex 3) returns HTTP 200; retained.