Aurora, CO Development Impact Fees (2026)

PRIMARY SOURCES (both official, effective Jan 1, 2026): (1) City of Aurora 2026 Service Fees document (Office of Budget) — contains the seven Capital Impact Fees and the Park Development Fee; (2) Aurora Water Fee Schedule 7 (Water Development and Connection Fees, Effective 2026) — water/sewer/stormwater connection (tap) fees. Confidence is HIGH throughout; figures are quoted verbatim and cross-checked against the document's own department-tagged detailed indexing appendix. WHAT EXISTS for residential builders in Aurora (all per dwelling unit unless noted): - Capital Impact Fees set by City Code sec. 146-412, indexed annually: Transportation/Public Works ($971 SFD), Fire ($1,325 SFD), Police ($1,520 SFD), General Government ($1,760 SFD), Library ($422 SFD), Parks — Large Urban/Special Use/Regional ($1,586 SFD) and Recreation ($1,743 SFD). - Park Development Fee (separate from park capital impact fees), additive Neighborhood ($1,751.45 SFD) + Community ($645.42 SFD) components. - Water/sewer/stormwater TAP fees via Aurora Water: SFD water connection is tiered by bathroom count (indoor) PLUS a large LOT-SIZE-based outdoor-use fee ($2.087/sf of lot, conservation rate $1.478/sf). City sanitary sewer $5,875 + interceptor $536; PLUS a mandatory SEPARATE-DISTRICT fee — the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District connection fee ($6,070 at 5/8" meter), collected by Aurora Water. Stormwater Development Fee $0.053/sf of lot (SFD).

Normalization/exclusions

For SFD water indoor connection the 3-4 bathroom tier ($13,978) is the representative ~2,000-2,500 sf home; 1-2 bath ($8,651) and 5+ bath ($24,224) tiers are correctly excludeFromTotal=true (mutually exclusive). Outdoor water fees and the stormwater development fee are per-sq-ft-of-lot (area-based, not per-unit) and correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true. Metro Wastewater 5/8" meter is the residential primary; 3/4" variant correctly excluded. Multifamily per-unit figures are correctly excludeFromTotal=true for reference. Representative SFD per-unit total (7 capital impact fees + 2 park dev components + indoor water $13,978 + indoor transmission $477 + city sewer $5,875 + interceptor $536 + Metro 5/8" $6,070) is sane and free of double-counting. KEY DOC CAVEAT (CONFIRMED): The 2026 Service Fees PDF has a labeling error — a fee table within the Fire/general-services pages is headed "Transportation Capital Impact Fee" but lists $1,275/$1,325 SFD; the document's own department-tagged appendix confirms that $1,325 figure is the FIRE capital impact fee (Dept = Fire, lines 608-609) and the genuine Transportation (Public Works) capital impact fee is $916/$971 SFD (Dept = Pub Wks, lines 1254-1256). Reported accordingly.

What does not exist

NO mandatory school impact fee (Colorado does not authorize them; only a VOLUNTARY ~$25/permit "Careers in Construction Colorado" contribution, omitted). NO affordable-housing/inclusionary-zoning impact fee and NO standalone "open space" impact fee (open space funded via parks fees/dedication). NO separate standalone drainage IMPACT fee beyond the Aurora Water Stormwater Development Fee captured (drainage REPORT review fees PDR/MDR/FDR are plan-review service fees, not impact fees, so omitted). Builders should confirm project-specific figures with Aurora's Office of Development Assistance (303.739.7345) and the TAP Application Office (303.739.7393).

Verify

confirmed 30 of 30 rows; dropped 0. Both source PDFs re-fetched live (Service Fees 110 pp / 3.9 MB; Fee Schedule 7) and every amount + sourceQuote matched. The contested Transportation ($971) vs Fire ($1,325) attribution was independently corroborated against the department-tagged indexing appendix (Dept = Fire line 608-611 = $1,325/$957; Dept = Pub Wks line 1254-1258 = $971/$686), so high confidence retained on both. All seven SFD capital impact fees, both Park Development components, all water/sewer/stormwater rows, and all MF reference rows confirmed verbatim. excludeFromTotal corrections: none required — all bathroom-tier alternates (1-2, 5+), the 3/4" meter variant, the per-sqft area-based outdoor/stormwater fees, and the multifamily rows were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true, with the single representative tier/meter/landUse kept in the total and no double-counting. Note (non-fee): the population field (386,261) is closer to the 2020 census than current 2024 estimates (~402,000-414,000) but is not a fee data point and was retained as provided.