Sacramento, CA Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Sacramento

$56,214 total per unit across 7 fee categories. Fees charged per square foot assume a 2,500 sq ft home.

Sacramento’s $56,214 is about 1.6× the California tracked median of $36,209 — among the higher-cost places to build in the state.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Coverage & caveats

FOUND (City of Sacramento, residential, per dwelling unit, current as of 04-21-2026 fee form): Park Development Impact Fee ($6,947 at >=2,000 sf), Citywide Transportation Development Impact Fee/TDIF ($2,800 flat), Housing Impact Fee/affordable housing ($7,120 at 2,000 sf), SAFCA flood-control Development Impact Fee (~$2.10/sf; $4,200 at 2,000 sf - a separate agency, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency), STA (Sacramento Transportation Authority) Measure A transportation mitigation fee + 2% admin ($1,630.98 at 2,000 sf - separate county authority), Water Development (connection/capacity) Fee ($10,844.97), Sewer Development Fee ($2,644.28), Regional Sanitation Fee / SacSewer regional treatment connection ($6,479), Water Meter Fee 1" ($723). SCHOOL: levied and collected by the separate school district (Sacramento City Unified $5.13/sf used as representative; districts range $3.79-$7.32/sf residential) - a real builder cost attributed to the school district, NOT collected by the City. DOES NOT EXIST as a distinct citywide residential impact fee here: standalone police impact fee, standalone fire impact fee (fire is recovered via permit/inspection/plan-review service fees, not an impact fee), standalone library impact fee, standalone general/capital facilities impact fee, standalone open-space impact fee (open space/parks are combined in the Park Development Impact Fee). Drainage: the City historically had NO citywide drainage development impact fee and as of ~2023 was studying establishing one together with water/sewer increases; no separate adopted residential drainage impact fee line appears on the current CDD-0246 form, so it is omitted. CAVEATS: (1) Mello-Roos/CFD special-district taxes and project-area/financing-plan fees (e.g., Natomas Basin, Delta Shores, Railyards, North Natomas) are out of scope and excluded; the form explicitly notes "Does not include any applicable special district fees." (2) Multifamily/per-unit apartment figures: the City does not publish a single consolidated multifamily estimate form comparable to CDD-0246; the City park fee program states "the residential unit fee will provide the full mitigation required in multifamily projects" but a verified per-unit multifamily dollar table was not located, so multifamily rows are omitted rather than invented. (3) SAFCA DIF and STA mitigation fee schedules are maintained by their own agencies; amounts here come from the City's collection form rather than each agency's standalone schedule. (4) All amounts are "approximately" per the City's own disclaimer and vary by location, valuation, and infill/incentive status. VERIFY: confirmed 14 of 14 rows; dropped 0. Independently re-fetched CDD-0246 (Rev 04-21-2026) via curl+pdftotext and CDD-0226 (Rev 01-30-2026); every amount and sourceQuote matched the source PDFs exactly (Park 3,470/5,205/6,947/6,947; HIF 3,560/5,340/7,120/8,900; SAFCA DIF 2,100/3,150/4,200/5,250; STA 1,382.10/1,503.48/1,630.98/1,793.16; TDIF 2,800 flat; Water Dev 10,844.97; Water Meter 1in 723; Sewer Dev 2,644.28; Regional Sanitation 6,479; SCUSD residential $5.13 effective 10/07/2024). AALRR news source confirmed SAB Level 1 increase $5.17->$5.38 effective 1/28/2026. Development Impact Fees webpage (sourceIndex 3) returned only a site-navigation page on re-fetch and CDD-0419 ADU form (sourceIndex 2) - neither gates any fee row, so no rows affected. excludeFromTotal corrections: none needed - the three 2,500 sf tier rows (HIF $8,900, SAFCA $5,250, STA $1,793.16) are correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true as non-representative higher tiers of fees already counted at the 2,000 sf representative tier; school row is per_sqft and not summed. Representative per-unit countable total = $43,389.23 (Park 6,947 + TDIF 2,800 + HIF 7,120 + SAFCA 4,200 + STA 1,630.98 + Water Dev 10,844.97 + Water Meter 723 + Sewer Dev 2,644.28 + Regional Sanitation 6,479); sane and not double-counting (form's own ~$52,775.77 total at 2,000 sf additionally includes permit/plan-review/tax/service fees correctly excluded here). Population 524,943 is approximately consistent with 2020 Census (525,615); minor metadata, retained.

All primary single-family figures are taken from the City of Sacramento official "Residential Fee Estimate (New Construction)" form CDD-0246, Revised 04-21-2026, which lists actual amounts a residential builder pays. That form is tiered by dwelling square footage at 1,000 / 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 sq ft. Per the normalization rule, the ~2,000 sq ft column is used as the representative primary single-family per-unit row; the 2,500 sq ft tier (where higher) is included as an additional excludeFromTotal row. Some fees are flat per unit (TDIF, Regional Sanitation, Sewer Development, Water Development, Water Meter, Park at/above 2,000 sf); others scale with sq ft (Housing Impact Fee, SAFCA DIF, STA mitigation). The CDD-0246 form notes several fees "may be lower in certain infill areas or incentive zones." School impact fees are NOT collected by the City; they are paid directly to the applicable school district and proof of payment is required by the City (form CDD-0226, Revised 01-30-2026). The school fee varies by which district covers the parcel; the representative figure here uses Sacramento City Unified School District (covers Downtown, Pocket/Greenhaven, Meadowview, etc.) at $5.13/sq ft residential. Other districts within city limits: Elk Grove Unified $7.32/sf, Natomas Unified $5.17/sf, Twin Rivers Unified $5.17/sf (+ possible Robla Elementary $2.79/sf in overlap), San Juan Unified $3.79/sf. Note the statewide Level 1 statutory max rose to $5.38/sf effective ~early 2026 (SAB action 1/28/2026, increase from $5.17 to $5.38); district-published schedules above predate that and reflect rates effective during 2024-2025/2025-2026 (SCUSD residential rate effective October 7, 2024). Water and Sewer "Development" fees plus the "Regional Sanitation Fee" ARE the city/regional connection-capacity charges collected at permit (Regional Sanitation Fee = Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District / SacSewer regional treatment buy-in). I confirmed these are collected by the City of Sacramento at building permit per the CDD-0246 fee notes.

Sources

5 official sources · 13 high-confidence figures.

Sacramento impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Sacramento, CA for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-16, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Sacramento are about $56,214 per unit — roughly $35,523 in impact/development fees plus $20,691 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

Are impact fees in Sacramento 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 Sacramento'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 Sacramento on 2026-06-16.