Osceola County, FL Development Impact Fees (2026)

Residential development fees for Osceola County, FL (unincorporated county). Two distinct fee regimes apply to a residential builder: (1) COUNTY IMPACT FEES — Osceola County Code Chapter 24, current rate table "Impact and Mobility Fee Rates – Residential, Effective June 20, 2025" (FY26). The county levies exactly FOUR residential impact fee categories: Mobility (transportation), School (educational system), Park, and Fire (fire/rescue). A flat $60.00 administrative fee is added (the published table total explicitly states it "DOES NOT include $60.00 in administrative fees"). Single-family base totals $37,717.86 + $60 admin. The Mobility component varies by Capacity Management Plan (CMP) service area: the countywide base table (Mobility SF $21,710.14) is used as PRIMARY; four sub-area tables (East of Lake Toho $20,653.74, South Lake Toho $20,013.76, Alligator Chain of Lakes $21,347.00) are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE geographic variants of the mobility fee only — School/Park/Fire are identical across all areas — and are marked excludeFromTotal=true. The School (educational system) impact fee is adopted under the County ordinance (Chapter 24, Article III) and collected by the County for school facilities. Mobility fees rose sharply effective June 18-20, 2025 (single-family ~117% increase from $9,999 to $21,710 per news/law-firm reporting; the official county PDF confirms the new figure). (2) WATER/SEWER SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CHARGES — Toho Water Authority (Toho) is the water/wastewater utility serving Osceola County (Kissimmee, St. Cloud, and unincorporated areas). Toho's SDCs (formally impact fees) per its Appendix A "Flow Rates and Fees" schedule, effective May 5, 2025: residential 3/4" meter Water SDC $6,650 + Wastewater SDC $3,293 = $9,943. Larger meter sizes (1", 1.5", 2") are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE variants (excludeFromTotal=true); standard single-family uses the 3/4" meter (PRIMARY). Toho also charges a meter installation fee ($500 for 3/4" meter) and separate sewer tap/lateral/connection fees, which are additive to the SDC for a new connection. CATEGORIES THAT DO NOT EXIST for this jurisdiction: NO county police / law-enforcement impact fee; NO library impact fee; NO drainage/stormwater impact fee; NO general/capital impact fee; NO open space impact fee; NO affordable housing impact fee (the county instead runs a mobility-fee incentive/buy-down fund for affordable housing). Florida counties may levy school impact fees and Osceola does so.

Caveats

A builder building INSIDE the cities of Kissimmee or St. Cloud may face city-specific mobility/fee schedules; this record covers the COUNTY schedule. The ADU rate is not separately published in the county table (only Single-Family, Mobile Home, Multi-Family Rental, Multi-Family Condo, Townhouse). Multifamily figures use the "Multi-Family Rental" column as the representative per-unit multifamily rate. Toho's per-gallon SDC ($19.55 water / $14.90 wastewater per gallon, LOS 340 gpd water / 221 gpd wastewater per ERU) underlies the per-meter charge and is not double-counted.

Verify

confirmed 20 of 20 rows; dropped 0. All 8 county impact-fee rows (Mobility/School/Park/Fire x SF and MF) verified against the official Osceola County PDF (sourceIndex 0); the live URL is Akamai bot-blocked (HTTP 403 to curl and WebFetch), so content was confirmed via the Wayback Machine archive of the identical URL — PDF metadata Author "Osceola County Impact Fee Office", title "Osceola County Residential Impact and Mobility Fee Rates", and every dollar figure and total ($37,717.86 SF base) matched the researcher output exactly, including all sourceQuote rows in the column order Single-Family / Mobile Home / Multi-Family Rental / Multi-Family Condo / Townhouse. Toho Water SDC $6,650 and Wastewater SDC $3,293 (3/4" meter), plus 1" ($11,106/$5,499) and 2" ($35,445/$17,552) meter variants, all verified in the Toho Appendix A PDF (sourceIndex 1), which also lists the per-gallon $19.55/$14.90 and total $9,943 effective May 5, 2025. The $500 3/4" meter installation fee and $2,250 sanitary sewer tap fee were independently confirmed on the Toho Development Fees page (sourceIndex 3); the $500 meter fee ALSO appears in the Appendix A PDF (sourceIndex 1). Single-family mobility $21,710 / 117% increase from $9,999 corroborated by the Lowndes law-firm article (sourceIndex 5, effective June 18, 2025). Toho SDC webpage (sourceIndex 2) corroborates 3/4" figures and 340/221 gpd LOS. Municode Chapter 24 (sourceIndex 4) is live (HTTP 200) but blocks markdown fetch (403); it is a corroborating ordinance reference carrying no fee-amount rows. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE — all 5 mutually-exclusive variants (3 CMP mobility sub-areas, Multi-Family Condo school variant, 1" and 2" meter sizes) were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true and remain so; no double-counting in the representative single-family total. Confidence upgrades: the $500 meter installation fee and $2,250 sewer tap fee raised from medium to high because their exact figures were directly confirmed (and the $500 appears in two sources).