Fort Worth, TX Development Impact Fees (2026)

Fort Worth levies development IMPACT fees only in the categories Texas Local Government Code Ch. 395 allows: WATER, WASTEWATER, and ROADWAY (transportation). The city has NO drainage impact fee, NO park/open-space impact fee, NO police impact fee, NO fire impact fee, NO school impact fee, NO library impact fee, and NO affordable-housing or general/capital impact fee. Texas school districts fund facilities by bonds/property tax, not per-unit school impact fees. Fort Worth's roadway category is captured here as the Transportation Impact Fee. Fort Worth does NOT levy a drainage/stormwater IMPACT fee; it has an ongoing monthly Stormwater Utility Fee (recurring utility charge, not a one-time development fee), omitted here. WATER & WASTEWATER IMPACT FEES (high confidence, independently re-verified against the official city schedule page on 2026-06-17): Adopted by City Council 6/10/2025, Ordinance 27745-06-2025, as a stepped schedule applying to plats recorded on/after 4/1/2017, set by the building-permit-issuance date. The current "Oct. 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2026" column is in effect today (6/16/2026): 5/8" residential meter (factor 1.0) = $2,824 water + $2,680 wastewater; 3/4" meter (factor 1.5) = $4,236 water + $4,020 wastewater (excludeFromTotal variant). The Oct. 1, 2026 column (5/8": $2,990/$2,838) is future-dated (excludeFromTotal). All confirmed verbatim. TRANSPORTATION (ROADWAY) IMPACT FEE (medium confidence; methodology and ALL inputs independently re-verified): Per-dwelling-unit fee = (veh-mi/unit) x (Schedule 1 max-assessable $/veh-mi for the service area) x (residential collection rate). Verified inputs: (1) Schedule 1 "On or After 11/1/2022" max-assessable rates per veh-mile, confirmed from BOTH the Schedule 1 PDF (footer: "Schedule 1 Maximum Assessable Transportation Impact Fees Per Vehicle-Mile 11/29/2022") and the Schedule1 tab of the official Fee Estimator XLSX: Area A=$1,642, AA=$355, C=$1,781, M=$6,367, L=$0, W=$0. (2) LUVMET 11th-Edition Residential table in the estimator: Single-Family Detached (ITE 210)=4.61 veh-mi/unit, Multifamily Low-Rise (ITE 220)=2.50 veh-mi/unit. (3) Residential collection rate = 65% effective 6/1/2026, confirmed verbatim on the city's Transportation Impact Fee Calculation page ("Effective June 1, 2026: Residential rate of 65% of the maximum assessable rate...") and corroborated by the transportation landing page ("Transportation Impact Fees for residential developments will increase as of June 1, 2026"). Recomputed: Area C SF = 4.61 x $1,781 x 0.65 = $5,336.77 (representative primary); Area A = $4,920.25; Area M = $19,078.72; Area AA = $1,063.51 (recompute gives ~$1,063.76, immaterial rounding); MF low-rise Area C = 2.50 x $1,781 x 0.65 = $2,894.13.

Note

the Schedule 1 source PDF carries misleading internal metadata (document title "2022-10-25_Interim_Schedule_2.xlsx") but its on-page content and footer are unambiguously Schedule 1; values match the estimator's Schedule1 tab, so the misleading filename metadata is harmless. No single citywide SF figure exists — the fee is location-specific (~$1,064 to ~$19,079/unit across populated service areas). WATER & SEWER TAP (CONNECTION) FEES (high confidence, City Code §35-57.4 and §35-57.5, eff. 10/1/2023, Ord. 26452-09-2023, re-verified verbatim on amlegal): City-installed water tap, 1" asphalt short = $3,000 (primary); 1" unpaved short = $2,500 (code prints "$2,5000", confirmed typo; excludeFromTotal). City-installed sewer tap, 4" asphalt short = $4,200 (primary); 4" unpaved short = $2,600 (excludeFromTotal). Code confirms these are IN ADDITION TO impact fees (§35-57.4(g), §35-57.5(h)) and that in new developments developers pay full tap cost via a Community Facilities Agreement (§35-57.4(e), §35-57.5(f)). Both §35-57.4 and §35-57.5 render on the same amlegal page; the second cited URL is the canonical anchor for §35-57.5.

Population correction

researcher stated 996,756 as "the 2020 Census count." The 2020 Census count for the City of Fort Worth is 918,915 (corrected here); 996,756 was a later post-2020 estimate, not the 2020 enumeration. Corrected to the verified 2020 figure.

Caveats

Transportation fee is location-specific; any lot depends on its service area. Water/wastewater impact fees scale by meter size; 5/8" base used. All impact figures are one-time charges collected at building-permit issuance. Tap fees are construction-cost-recovery charges, not Ch. 395 impact fees.

Verify

confirmed 16 of 16 rows; dropped 0. All amounts, sourceQuotes, ordinance numbers, effective dates, and the underlying transportation inputs (Schedule 1 $/veh-mi, LUVMET veh-mi/unit, 65% collection rate) independently confirmed against the live sources on 2026-06-17. excludeFromTotal corrections: 1 — set excludeFromTotal=true on the Multifamily-Low-Rise transportation row (it is a different land use than the single-family-detached representative basket and must not be summed into the SF total). All other excludeFromTotal flags (3/4" meter variants, Oct-1-2026 future rows, alternate transportation service areas A/M/AA, unpaved tap variants) verified correct. Representative SF-detached one-time total across the 5 primary rows = $2,824 + $2,680 + $5,336.77 + $3,000 + $4,200 = $18,040.77; no double-counting (impact fees and tap fees are distinct per code). Confidence left at medium for transportation rows because the per-unit dollar figure is an analyst computation/representative, not a single published citywide number; high for water/wastewater and tap rows.