Osceola County, FL Development Impact Fees (2026)
Normalized development impact fees, water & sewer connection (tap/SDC) fees, and mitigation fees for Osceola County, Florida — per dwelling unit, by category, with links to every official source.
What a single-family home pays in Osceola County
$48,161 total per unit across 6 fee categories.
- Transportation / roads$21,710
- Schools$12,923
- Water connection (tap / SDC)$7,150
- Sewer connection (tap / SDC)$3,293
- Parks & recreation$2,305
- Fire / EMS$780
Osceola County’s $48,161 is about 1.5× the Florida tracked median of $32,270 — among the higher-cost places to build in the state.
Full fee schedule — single-family
Impact / development fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Transportation / roads Mobility Fee (Transportation) - Single-Family (countywide base CMP area) — Countywide base CMP (Capacity Management Plan) area mobility fee; columns are Single-Family / Mobile Home / Multi-Family Rental / Multi-Family Condo / Townhouse. Used as PRIMARY single-family mobility row. Mutually-exclusive sub-area variants are excluded below. | per dwelling unit | $21,710 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Schools School (Educational System) Impact Fee - Single-Family — Educational system impact fee adopted under Osceola County Code Chapter 24, Article III; collected by the County for school facilities. Identical across all CMP service areas. Columns: Single-Family / Mobile Home / Multi-Family Rental / Multi-Family Condo / Townhouse. | per dwelling unit | $12,923 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Parks & recreation Park Impact Fee - Single-Family — Identical across all CMP service areas. | per dwelling unit | $2,305 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Fire / EMS Fire/Rescue Impact Fee - Single-Family — Fire rescue impact fee (Chapter 24, Article V). Identical across all CMP service areas. | per dwelling unit | $780 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Transportation / roads Mobility Fee - Single-Family (East of Lake Toho CMP Area) [VARIANT] — Mutually-exclusive geographic variant of the single-family mobility fee for the East of Lake Toho CMP service area. Excluded from total; countywide base $21,710.14 is primary. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $20,654 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Transportation / roads Mobility Fee - Single-Family (South Lake Toho CMP Area) [VARIANT] — Mutually-exclusive geographic variant of the single-family mobility fee for the South Lake Toho CMP service area. Excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $20,014 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Transportation / roads Mobility Fee - Single-Family (Alligator Chain of Lakes CMP Area) [VARIANT] — Mutually-exclusive geographic variant of the single-family mobility fee for the Alligator Chain of Lakes CMP service area. Excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $21,347 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Water & sewer connection fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Water connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Water System Development Charge (SDC), 3/4" meter — Toho Water Authority (utility serving Osceola County) Water SDC for the standard residential 3/4" meter. Separate special district / utility authority fee a builder must pay. PRIMARY meter size; larger meters are mutually-exclusive variants (excluded below). | per meter | $6,650 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025High |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Wastewater/Sewer System Development Charge (SDC), 3/4" meter — Toho Water Authority Wastewater SDC for the standard residential 3/4" meter. Combined water+wastewater SDC = $9,943 per ERU at the 3/4" meter. Separate special district / utility authority fee. | per meter | $3,293 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Water meter installation fee, 3/4" meter — Meter installation/set fee, additive to the water SDC for a new 3/4" residential connection. Figure per Toho Development Fees page (WebFetch summary); not independently verified line-by-line PDF, hence medium confidence. | per meter | $500 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025Medium |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Sanitary sewer tap fee — Wastewater tap fee, additive to the sewer SDC where a new tap is required. Per Toho Development Fees page (WebFetch summary); medium confidence. A separate sanitary lateral ($4,800) and sanitary connection ($150) may also apply depending on connection scope. | $2,250 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025Medium | |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Water SDC, 1" meter [VARIANT] — Mutually-exclusive meter-size variant. Standard residential uses 3/4" meter (primary). Wastewater SDC at 1" meter is $5,499. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $11,106 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Toho Water Authority - Water SDC, 2" meter [VARIANT] — Mutually-exclusive meter-size variant (Water SDC $35,445 / Wastewater SDC $17,552 at 2" meter). All meters above 2" subject to individual capacity analysis. 3/4" meter is primary. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $35,445 | Toho Water Authority May 5, 2025High |
Full fee schedule — multifamily
Impact / development fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Transportation / roads Mobility Fee (Transportation) - Multifamily (countywide base CMP area) — Multi-Family Rental column (also equals Multi-Family Condo) in the countywide base CMP table. | per dwelling unit | $14,040 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Schools School (Educational System) Impact Fee - Multifamily (rental) — Multi-Family Rental column. Note: Multi-Family Condo school fee is lower at $4,702.00 (see excluded variant row). | per dwelling unit | $12,165 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Parks & recreation Park Impact Fee - Multifamily — Multi-Family Rental/Condo column. | per dwelling unit | $1,118 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Fire / EMS Fire/Rescue Impact Fee - Multifamily — Multi-Family Rental/Condo/Townhouse column. | per dwelling unit | $303 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Schools School (Educational System) Impact Fee - Multifamily Condo [VARIANT] — Multi-Family Condo school impact fee variant ($4,702.00), lower than Multi-Family Rental ($12,165.00 used as primary multifamily). Excluded to avoid double-counting the multifamily school row. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $4,702 | Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) Jun 20, 2025High |
Coverage & caveats
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.
All county impact fee figures are from the official Osceola County PDF "Impact and Mobility Fee Rates – Residential, Effective June 20, 2025" (sourceIndex 0). Toho water/sewer SDC figures are from Toho Water Authority's Appendix A Flow Rates and Fees schedule, effective May 5, 2025 (sourceIndex 1). Single-family primary rows reflect the countywide base CMP table. Add a flat $60.00 county administrative fee not itemized as a separate category row here.
Sources
6 official sources · 16 high-confidence figures.
- 1Impact and Mobility Fee Rates – Residential, Effective June 20, 2025 (FY26)Osceola County, FL (Impact and Mobility Fees Office) · fee schedule · effective Jun 20, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 2Appendix A - Flow Rates and Fees (System Development Charges), Effective May 5, 2025Toho Water Authority · fee schedule · effective May 5, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 3System Development Charges (SDCs)Toho Water Authority · municipal webpage · effective May 5, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 4Development Fees (meter, tap, lateral, plan review)Toho Water Authority · fee schedule · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 5Code of Ordinances, Chapter 24 - Impact FeesOsceola County, FL (Municode) · ordinance · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 6Osceola County Approves Increase to Impact FeesLowndes (law firm) · news article · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
Osceola County impact fees — FAQ
- How much are development impact fees in Osceola County, FL for a single-family home?
- As of 2026-06-16, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Osceola County are about $48,161 per unit — roughly $37,718 in impact/development fees plus $10,443 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 Osceola County, FL?
- Total development fees for a multifamily unit in Osceola County are about $27,626 per unit as of 2026-06-16.
- Are impact fees in Osceola 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 Osceola 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 Osceola County on 2026-06-16.