Conroe, TX Development Impact Fees (2026)
A new single-family home in Conroe, Texas pays about $3,750 in total development impact and water/sewer connection fees per unit as of Jun 16, 2026 — about $0 in impact/development fees plus $3,750 in water & sewer connection (tap/SDC) fees. Every figure below is normalized per dwelling unit by category, with a link to its official source.
What a single-family home pays in Conroe
$3,750 total per unit across 2 fee categories.
- Water connection (tap / SDC)$1,875
- Sewer connection (tap / SDC)$1,875
At $3,750, Conroe is below the Texas tracked median of $16,912 — relatively affordable to build in.
Full fee schedule — single-family detached
Impact / development fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Mitigation Tree mitigation payment in lieu of preservation/planting — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit I (Chapter 102 Vegetation): line '102-32 Mitigation payment in lieu of preservation. Cost per square foot. $5.00'. Charged per square foot of additional canopy, payable only if a variance from tree preservation/planting is granted — conditional/situational, not a flat per-dwelling charge. Correctly excluded from total. Confidence held at medium per the researcher's noted $5.00 (Exhibit/Appendix A) vs $3.50 (ordinance body text) discrepancy; the codified Appendix A Exhibit value of $5.00 is used. alternative · not added to total | per sq ft | $5 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025Medium |
Water & sewer connection fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee (3/4" meter, standard residential) — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D (Chapter 70 Proposed Tap Fees), City of Conroe Appendix A Fee Schedule adopted by Ord. No. 2759-25, eff. 11-13-2025. The 3/4" tap is the standard residential water service connection and is the representative single-family row. Included in per-DU total. | per meter | $1,875 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Sewer tap fee (4" tap, standard residential) — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D (Chapter 70), Ord. No. 2759-25, eff. 11-13-2025. 4" is the standard residential sewer tap. One-time connection charge, effectively per dwelling unit for a typical single-family home. Included in per-DU total (water $1,875 + sewer $1,875 = $3,750, no double-counting). | per meter | $1,875 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 1" meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Alternative (larger) meter size; mutually exclusive with the primary 3/4" residential tap. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $2,000 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Multifamily (per unit) impact fees in Conroe
Water & sewer connection fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 2" meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Larger meter often used for multifamily/master-metered service. Priced per tap, NOT per dwelling unit; cannot be normalized to per-unit. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $2,500 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Sewer tap fee — 6" tap — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D (SEWER TAP FEES section). Larger sewer tap size. Mutually exclusive with the primary 4" residential sewer tap. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $2,750 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Other impact fees in Conroe
Fees for other development, typically charged per 1,000 sq ft of building area.
Water & sewer connection fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 4" meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Larger meter variant. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $3,375 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 6" meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Larger meter variant. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $3,500 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 8" meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Larger meter variant. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $4,375 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water tap fee — 10"+ meter — VERIFIED verbatim against Exhibit D. Largest meter variant. Correctly excluded from total. alternative · not added to total | per meter | $5,750 | City of Conroe, Texas Nov 13, 2025High |
Coverage & caveats
Conroe is a home-rule city in Montgomery County, TX (pop. ~114,581, 2024 est.).
Key finding
Conroe does NOT currently levy any Texas Local Government Code Ch. 395 impact fees. On June 26, 2025 the City Council approved a $549,500 contract with Freese and Nichols to STUDY the feasibility of implementing water/wastewater (and roadway) impact fees; the study runs ~20 months with potential adoption around 2027, applying only to projects that have not pulled permits by adoption (source 6, re-fetched and confirmed). Therefore there are currently NO water, wastewater, roadway, or drainage impact fees per service unit/LUE, and NO water/wastewater capacity-reservation charges. WHAT EXISTS TODAY for a residential builder: one-time WATER and SEWER TAP (connection) fees set in the City's Appendix A Fee Schedule, Chapter 70, adopted by Ordinance No. 2759-25 effective 11-13-2025 (primary source 0, Exhibit D, re-fetched and confirmed verbatim). For a standard single-family home the connection cost is a 3/4\" water tap ($1,875) plus a 4\" sewer tap ($1,875) = $3,750 total one-time connection cost. Larger meter/tap sizes (1\"–10\"+, 6\" sewer) are included as excludeFromTotal variants. WHAT DOES NOT EXIST (not allowed under TX law / not adopted): NO school impact fee (prohibited in TX), NO park/parkland fee, NO police impact fee, NO fire impact fee, NO library impact fee, NO open-space or affordable-housing fee, NO general/capital facilities impact fee, NO drainage impact fee, and NO transportation/roadway impact fee (the roadway impact fee is only under study).
Separate districts
Within Conroe city limits the City provides water and sewer directly, so no separate water/sewer district tap fee applies inside the city; many surrounding NEW subdivisions in Montgomery County sit inside Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) that levy their own tap/connection fees and ad valorem/standby charges, but those are district-specific and outside the City of Conroe's own fee schedule, so they are not quantified here. Conroe ISD does NOT charge a school impact fee (Texas prohibits them). Pass-through monthly utility surcharges (San Jacinto River Authority surface-water fee; Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District fee) are recurring usage charges, not development/connection fees, so they are excluded.
Verify
confirmed 11 of 11 rows (all 9 Chapter 70 tap fees verified verbatim against Exhibit D PDF; the Sec. 102-32 tree-mitigation $5.00/sq ft verified verbatim against Exhibit I PDF; source 6 news article re-fetched and confirmed the impact-fee study, not adoption). Dropped 0. excludeFromTotal corrections: none — all flags were already correct (only the representative 3/4\" water tap and 4\" sewer tap are in the per-DU total = $3,750 with no double-counting; all larger meter/tap variants and the conditional per-sqft tree mitigation are correctly excludeFromTotal=true). Confidence corrections: none — tap fees verified high; tree mitigation retained at medium due to the documented $5.00 vs $3.50 ordinance-body discrepancy.
Primary authoritative source is the City of Conroe Appendix A Fee Schedule, Chapter 70 (Exhibit D to Ordinance No. 2759-25, effective Nov 13, 2025), re-fetched and confirmed verbatim during verification. All nine Chapter 70 tap-fee amounts match exactly: water 3/4\"=$1,875, 1\"=$2,000, 2\"=$2,500, 4\"=$3,375, 6\"=$3,500, 8\"=$4,375, 10\"+=$5,750; sewer 4\"=$1,875, 6\"=$2,750. The Sec. 102-32 tree-mitigation $5.00/sq ft was confirmed verbatim in Exhibit I (Chapter 102). REPRESENTATIVE SINGLE-FAMILY total one-time connection cost = water 3/4\" tap $1,875 + sewer 4\" tap $1,875 = $3,750. OTHER REAL FEES a residential builder pays (NOT normalized into the per-DU total because they are area/valuation/plat-based rather than flat per-unit development fees, and are permit/plan-review/plat fees rather than impact/connection/mitigation charges): (1) Residential building permit fee = $0.64 per sq ft plus nonrefundable plan review = $0.32 per sq ft (Exhibit A, Sec. 14-38(c)). (2) Subdivision/plat application fees (Exhibit G, Sec. 94-73). (3) Tree-canopy mitigation $5.00/sq ft (Sec. 102-32) only if a variance is granted (included as an excluded conditional row). (4) Protected tree removal permit $200/tree; residential lot clearing permit $25/lot (Exhibit I, both confirmed in the re-fetched PDF). Tap fees: unitBasis recorded as per_meter (sized per tap diameter); the standard residential connection is a single 3/4\" water tap and 4\" sewer tap, effectively per dwelling unit. All tap-fee figures are high confidence (verified verbatim against the City's adopted Exhibit D). The tree mitigation figure is medium confidence due to a $5.00 (Exhibit/Appendix A) vs $3.50 (ordinance body text) discrepancy.
Sources
8 official sources · 9 high-confidence figures.
- 1Exhibit D — Chapter 70 Proposed Tap Fees (Appendix A Fee Schedule, adopted Ord. No. 2759-25)City of Conroe, Texas · fee schedule · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 2Ordinance Amending Appendix A – Fee Schedule (Chapters 14, 30, 58, 70, 82, 90, 94, 98, 102)City of Conroe, Texas · ordinance · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 3Exhibit I — Chapter 102 Vegetation Fee Schedule (tree mitigation, clearing permits)City of Conroe, Texas · fee schedule · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 4Exhibit G — Chapter 94 Subdivisions Fee Schedule (plat application fees)City of Conroe, Texas · fee schedule · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 5Exhibit A — Chapter 14 Buildings and Building Regulations Fee Schedule (building permit & plan review fees)City of Conroe, Texas · fee schedule · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 6Code of Ordinances Sec. 70-74 — Water tap and sewer connections; tap fee (amended Ord. 2759-25)City of Conroe / Municode Library · ordinance · effective Nov 13, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 7Conroe City Council approves study on implementing impact fees to fund infrastructureCommunity Impact · news article · effective Jun 26, 2025 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
- 8City of Conroe FY 2024-2025 Adopted Operating Budget (water/sewer rate ordinance, tap revenue)City of Conroe, Texas · government report · effective Oct 1, 2024 · retrieved Jun 16, 2026
Conroe impact fees — FAQ
- How much are development impact fees in Conroe, TX for a single-family home?
- As of 2026-06-16, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Conroe are about $3,750 per unit — roughly $0 in impact/development fees plus $3,750 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.
- Are impact fees in Conroe 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 Conroe'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 Conroe on 2026-06-16.