Lake County, FL Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Lake County

$16,337 total per unit across 6 fee categories.

At $16,337, Lake County is below the Florida tracked median of $29,203 — relatively affordable to build in.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Full fee schedule — multifamily

Coverage & caveats

Source is the official Lake County Residential Impact Fee Schedule effective January 2 - September 30, 2026 (current as of the 2026-06-17 verification date), authored by the Lake County Board of County Commissioners and obtained via a clean City-of-Groveland-hosted copy (the lakecountyfl.gov CDN and Municode are behind Cloudflare bot protection; the Groveland copy is byte-for-byte the county document). All amounts quoted verbatim from that schedule; confidence is high. CATEGORIES THAT EXIST (Lake County Code Ch. 22 - Impact Fees, confirmed via Municode): Art. II Educational System (School, Ord. 2023-39), Art. III Transportation/Roads (Ord. 2024-5, four benefit districts), Art. IV Fire Rescue (Ord. 2023-53 as amended), Art. V Park (Ord. 2023-52), Art. VI Library. Plus a $100 flat administrative fee. CATEGORIES THAT DO NOT EXIST in Lake County: NO law enforcement / police impact fee; NO drainage/stormwater impact fee; NO general/capital facilities impact fee; NO open-space impact fee; NO mitigation fee on the residential schedule. Affordable housing is NOT a fee - Ch. 22 Sec. 22-9 provides a WAIVER/DEFERRAL of impact fees for affordable housing (and Sec. 22-8 waivers for infill). WATER & SEWER CONNECTION/CAPACITY FEES: NONE are levied by Lake County government. Per the county's own infrastructure profile, Lake County is not a potable-water supplier and does not provide wastewater service; water is supplied by 13 municipalities and ~30 private utilities, and wastewater is provided by municipalities, private utilities, or on-site septic (OSTDS). Therefore water/sewer connection/tap/capacity fees depend entirely on which city or private utility serves the parcel (e.g., cities such as Clermont, Leesburg, Tavares, Eustis, Groveland, Mount Dora; or private utilities) and are NOT a uniform county charge - omitted here because there is no county figure to report. A builder in a specific city/utility service area should obtain that utility's connection/capacity fee separately. CAVEATS: (1) The schedule is updated periodically (the prior period was Oct 1, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026; transportation fees are being phased/indexed), so the dollar amounts apply to permits issued within the Jan 2 - Sep 30, 2026 window. (2) Active Adult (age-restricted) communities are EXEMPT from the School fee and pay reduced amounts - not included as a primary land use. (3) Mobile homes have their own (lower) school fee tier ($6,092). (4) For homes <801 sq ft, the School fee drops to $6,897 and Roads is lower - the included sub-801 and 2,500+ rows are excluded variants showing the tier range. VERIFY: confirmed 17 of 17 rows; dropped 0. Independent re-fetch of the official Groveland-hosted PDF (source index 0/1, byte-identical county document) confirmed every amount and source quote verbatim against the extracted fee tables. Column order independently verified as Roads | School | Fire | Parks | Library | Admin Fee | Total. Representative per-DU totals re-computed and match the schedule's Total column exactly: SFD Central/N.Central = 3,928+11,247+536+263+263+100 = 16,337; Multifamily 801+ = 2,660+9,543+336+213+201+100 = 13,053. No double-counting in the non-excluded set. excludeFromTotal corrections: none required - all six mutually-exclusive variants (3 alternate Transportation Benefit Districts: NE/Wekiva, South, West; and 2 non-representative SFD size tiers: 800-or-less, 2,500+) were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true, and the 11 included rows (6 SFD components + 5 MF components, distinct land uses) were correctly left unflagged. Water/sewer omission independently confirmed via businessinlakefl.com infrastructure profile (Lake County government is not a water supplier and does not provide wastewater service). The lakecountyfl.gov/planning-and-zoning/impact-fees webpage (source index 3) returned HTTP 403 on re-fetch (Cloudflare) but is a supporting/category-existence source, not the basis for any fee amount; the elaws.us Municode mirror confirmed Art. V Park Impact Fees and Sec. 22-9 affordable-housing waiver. The CDN PDF (source index 1) returned a Cloudflare HTML challenge on re-fetch but is the same document as the confirmed Groveland copy.

Lake County levies six categories of county impact fees plus a flat $100 administrative fee, all in a single consolidated Residential Impact Fee Schedule. Primary single_family_detached figures use the representative 1,500-2,499 sq ft living-area tier (covers a typical ~2,000-2,500 sf home). The Roads (transportation) fee is the ONLY category that varies by Transportation Benefit District; School, Fire, Parks, Library, and Admin are uniform countywide (independently verified identical across all four district tables for the 801+ sq ft SFD rows). The four districts for a 1,500-2,499 sq ft SFD are: Central/North Central $3,928 (used as primary), Northeast/Wekiva $4,356, South $4,356, and West $1,258. All-in SFD totals by district for this tier: Central/N.Central $16,337; NE/Wekiva $16,765; South $16,765; West $13,667 (all match the schedule's Total column). Multifamily figures use the 801+ sq ft, 1-3 stories per-unit tier in the Central/North Central district (all-in $13,053). Townhouses are charged as multi-family for all fees except School.

Sources

5 official sources · 16 high-confidence figures.

Lake County impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Lake County, FL for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Lake County are about $16,337 per unit — roughly $16,337 in impact/development fees plus $0 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

What are the impact fees per multifamily unit in Lake County, FL?

Total development fees for a multifamily unit in Lake County are about $12,953 per unit as of 2026-06-17.

Are impact fees in Lake County 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 Lake County'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 Lake County on 2026-06-17.