Fort Collins, CO Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Fort Collins

$38,504 total per unit across 7 fee categories.

Fort Collins’s $38,504 is close to the Colorado tracked median of $38,504.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Coverage & caveats

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.

Total for a representative Single Family Detached home (1,801-2,400 sq. ft.), CEF/TCEF only, effective 1/1/2026: Neighborhood Parkland $5,075 + Community Parkland $3,342 + Fire $1,130 + Police $683 + Government Facilities $1,204 + Capital Equipment $246 + City Transportation TCEF $8,660 + Larimer County Regional Road TCEF $535 = approximately $20,875 per unit. Utility development fees are additional and vary by lot/bedrooms: Water Meter Fee (3/4") $436.74 + Water PIF base $914 (plus $0.494/sq ft of lot, max 1/2 acre) + Stormwater PIF $12,012/gross acre (~$1,930 on a typical ~7,000 sf lot) + Wastewater PIF $4,476/unit + WSR ($0.196/gallon; ~$11,802 for the City's own 3-bedroom example) — so all-in city utility development charges commonly add roughly $19,000-$22,000+ for a single-family home before the CEF/TCEF total. Per-unit "amount" fields for lot/bedroom-dependent fees use the fixed base or the City's published representative example, with the variable rate in notes.

Sources

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Fort Collins impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Fort Collins, CO for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-16, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Fort Collins are about $38,504 per unit — roughly $20,875 in impact/development fees plus $17,629 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

Are impact fees in Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins'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 Fort Collins on 2026-06-16.