Fort Collins, CO Development Impact Fees (2026)

Fort Collins is a home-rule city in Larimer County. Residential development fees fall into two groups: (1) Capital Expansion Fees (CEFs) + Transportation Expansion Fee (TCEF), collected at building permit and codified in Municipal Code Chapter 7.5; and (2) Utility development fees (Water Plant Investment Fee, Stormwater PIF, Wastewater PIF, Water Meter Fee, and the Water Supply Requirement / WSR) under Code Chapter 26, collected by city-owned Fort Collins Utilities. CEF/TCEF figures here are the ADOPTED schedule effective January 1, 2026 (Ordinance No. 168, 2025, adopted on Second Reading Nov 3, 2025; effective date of ordinance Nov 13, 2025). This is a Year-1 of a two-year phase-in toward the 2023 study's full ("Proposed") fees. The 2026 schedule restructured residential fees by HOUSING TYPE (Single Family Detached, Single Family Attached, Multifamily/ADU) and by square-foot tier; the prior 2025 schedule was a single residential schedule by square foot only. PRIMARY rows use Single Family Detached, 1,801-2,400 sq. ft. (representative ~2,000-2,400 sf home). Other SFD tiers and the multifamily tiers are included as excludeFromTotal=true alternates. The old "general government" CEF was split in 2026 into two separate additive fees: a Government Facilities CEF and a Capital Equipment Expansion Fee — both are included and additive. Categories that EXIST: Neighborhood Parkland, Community Parkland, Fire Protection, Police, Government Facilities, Capital Equipment (govt), Transportation (City TCEF), plus a separate Larimer County Regional Road TCEF (administered by Larimer County but collected by the City at permit — attributed in notes), Water PIF, Stormwater PIF, Wastewater PIF, Water Meter Fee, and Water Supply Requirement (WSR, a large raw-water acquisition fee). Categories that DO NOT EXIST as a flat per-unit fee: No school impact fee — Colorado does not authorize school impact fees; instead Poudre School District requires land dedication OR fee-in-lieu collected by the City, but the amount is project-specific (based on student yields/acreage/land cost) with no published flat per-unit figure, so it is OMITTED. No standalone library impact fee (library is funded within general government). No mandatory affordable-housing/inclusionary fee on market-rate housing (the City offers incentives for affordable projects rather than charging a fee). No general "open space" CEF at the city level.

Key caveats

(1) Water PIF and Stormwater PIF are partly LOT-SIZE dependent; the WSR is bedroom/outdoor-area dependent. The fixed/base components are reported with the variable rate noted; representative calculations are given in notes. (2) Not all Fort Collins addresses are served by Fort Collins Utilities for water/wastewater — some parcels are in separate districts (e.g., Fort Collins-Loveland Water District, East Larimer County Water District / Boxelder Sanitation), which have their own (often higher) tap fees; if in those districts the city water/sewer PIF/WSR would not apply and the district's fees would instead. The figures here are for the city-utility service area. (3) Utility development fees (Water PIF/Stormwater PIF/Wastewater PIF/Meter/WSR) are from the official "2025 Water Development Fees" sheet; the 2025 WSR of $63,800/acre-foot was confirmed still current on the City's WSR page as of Oct 2025. (4) fcgov.com / fortcollins.gov were unreachable from the research environment (network/bot block); CEF/TCEF amounts were taken directly from the adopted Ordinance 168, 2025 PDF on the City's official meeting-records system, and utility fees from a Wayback-archived copy of the City's official 2025 Water Development Fees PDF.

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confirmed 26 of 26 rows; dropped 0. Independently re-fetched every cited source. Ordinance 168, 2025 PDF (source 0) downloaded and parsed: ALL CEF/TCEF amounts match the adopted Jan 1, 2026 schedule exactly — Neighborhood Parkland SFD 1,801-2,400 $5,075 (Sec 7.5-71), Community Parkland $3,342 (Sec 7.5-28), Fire $1,130 (Sec 7.5-30), Police $683 (Sec 7.5-29), Government Facilities $1,204 (new Sec 7.5-31), Capital Equipment $246 (new Sec 7.5-31.5), City TCEF $8,660 (Sec 7.5-32); SFD alt tiers ($3,699, $5,872, $10,445) and all eight Multifamily/ADU 751-1,300 tiers ($3,819 / $2,249 / $860 / $516 / $921 / $188 / $3,188) all confirmed verbatim. Council packet PDF (source 1) confirmed Larimer County Regional Road TCEF: Exhibit B to Ordinance 182, 2025, "City Implementation Schedule of the 2026 Regional TCEFs Effective January 1, 2026", 1801 to 2400 = $535 (and by-sqft range $268 to $698), matches. Wayback-archived 2025 Water Development Fees sheet (source 2) confirmed: Water Meter Fee 3/4-inch $436.74 (1"/1.5"/2" = $599.91/$930.72/$1,170.25), Water PIF single-family "$914 plus $0.494/sq of lot area" (1-inch base $1,548), Stormwater PIF "$12,012 per gross acre", Wastewater PIF "$4,476/living unit" (MF $3,230), Water PIF MF "$690/living unit", and the WSR worked example "(10 * 2,000) + (12,200 * 3) = 56,600 gallons ... $0.196/gallon * 56,600 gallons = $11,802.00" — all confirmed verbatim. WSR archived page (source 4) confirmed "$63,800 per acre-foot, or $0.196 per gallon" for 2025; Chamber page (source 7) independently corroborated the reduction from $68,200 (2024) to $63,800 per acre-foot. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE needed — all three off-tier SFD alternates and all ten multifamily rows were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true; the 13 additive primary SFD-1,801-2,400 CEF/TCEF + utility components are correctly left in the total with no double-counting (Stormwater PIF amount is the published $12,012 per-gross-acre rate, documented in notes, not a per-unit charge). Confidence levels left unchanged: every confirmed amount appears verbatim in a primary/official source, so the original "high" ratings are warranted.