Collier County, FL Development Impact Fees (2026)

All fees independently re-verified against the OFFICIAL Collier County "Residential Impact Fees Effective February 1, 2026" consolidated schedule (residential-rates-020126.pdf on collier.gov). Akamai/edgesuite blocks curl and WebFetch (403 Access Denied), but the document was retrieved via an authenticated browser session (HTTP 200, %PDF-1.7, 136,625 bytes) and text was extracted with PDF.js using x/y-coordinate column mapping to map each numeric cell to its exact column header. The PDF column order is: EMS | GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS | JAIL | LAW ENFORCEMENT | LIBRARIES | COMMUNITY PARKS | ROADS | REGIONAL PARKS | SCHOOLS | SUBTOTAL | WATER | SEWER | TOTAL PER UNIT WITHOUT FIRE. PRIMARY land use = Single Family Detached <4000 sq.ft. living area (representative ~2,000-2,500 sq ft tier; Collier tiers SFD only at the <4000 vs 4000+ break). The 4000+ tier and all multifamily/other rows are additional context rows with excludeFromTotal=true. CATEGORIES CONFIRMED to exist in Collier County (all per dwelling unit unless noted): Roads, EMS, Law Enforcement, Jail, Government Buildings, Library, Community Parks, Regional Parks, Schools (county school impact fee, $8,789.54/SFD, collected on the county schedule — FL DOES permit county school impact fees), Water, Sewer/Wastewater, and Fire (by independent fire district). The cited James Madison Institute / FSU DeVoe Moore Center backgrounder (source 2) independently corroborates this exact list: "Collier County collects impact fees for all of the following purposes: EMS, government buildings, jail, law enforcement, libraries, community parks, roads, regional parks, school, water, sewer, and fire."

Water/sewer

County water/sewer impact fees are tiered by living space (ERC factor). Verified ERC sub-table: 0-750 sq ft (ERC 0.33) = $1,795 water / $1,599 sewer; 751-1,500 (ERC 0.67) = $3,644 / $3,247; 1,501+ (ERC 1.0) = $5,441 / $4,847. The 1,501+ tier (ERC 1.0) is the primary (covers a 2,000-2,500 sq ft home) and matches the WATER/SEWER columns of the main SFD table. PDF footnote: rate is for individually metered 0-4,999 sq ft and <=5 toilets. A SEPARATE Meter & Cross-Connection Control Device Installation charge applies on top: 3/4" with service line = $1,839 (verified). Without-service-line ($778) and larger meters are excluded variants.

Fire

Levied by INDEPENDENT fire districts, not the county. Verified North Collier Fire SFD <4,000 = $476/unit, SFD 4,000+ = $833, Multi-Family (Apt/Condo) = $357. Greater Naples Fire $0.433/sq ft under roof, Immokalee Fire $0.94/sq ft, Ochopee Fire $0.60/sq ft (district-specific per-sq-ft alternatives, excludeFromTotal). Representative primary uses North Collier Fire ($476).

Caveats

(1) No standalone drainage/stormwater, open-space, affordable-housing, or general "mitigation" impact fee exists on the county residential schedule. (2) City of Naples & City of Marco Island: county Community Parks, Law Enforcement, Fire, Water and Sewer are NOT assessed; City of Everglades: county Community Parks, Road, Water and Sewer NOT assessed (verified from PDF notes). Primary rows assume UNINCORPORATED Collier County. (3) Ave Maria master-planned community has slightly different Community Parks/Regional Parks/Fire rates (not modeled; confirmed in JMI backgrounder). (4) This is "Phase 1" of a multi-phase rate change; Feb 1, 2026 schedule is the current adopted/effective one as of the verification date.

Verify

confirmed 36 of 36 rows; dropped 0. Every amount and the substance of every sourceQuote matched the official PDF exactly via coordinate-based column mapping; SFD <4000 subtotal $22,358.49 and total-without-fire $32,646.49 reproduce the PDF's printed totals, and SFD 4000+ subtotal $25,157.41 / total-without-fire $35,445.41 also match. Secondary source 2 (JMI/FSU backgrounder) confirmed authentic and corroborates the full category structure (it references a 2021 fee snapshot, accessed Dec 2024 — older than the Feb 2026 primary, so it is a structural cross-check only, not the amount source). excludeFromTotal corrections: none required — all mutually-exclusive variants (SFD 4000+ tier, all multifamily rows, ADU/mobile-home, water/sewer 0-750 and 751-1,500 tiers, drop-in/hang meter) were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true, and the representative-total inputs (SFD <4000 county rows + 1,501+ water/sewer + North Collier Fire $476 + 3/4" meter-with-service-line $1,839) are not double-counted.

Category correction

EMS rows were mislabeled category "fire"; reclassified to "public_safety" (EMS = emergency medical services, a facility category distinct from fire) for both the SFD and multifamily EMS rows. The 3/4" meter+service-line install ($1,839) is an installation/connection charge rather than a pure impact fee; retained as water_connection (a required one-time connection cost for a new home) but confidence downgraded to medium with a note.