Georgetown, TX Development Impact Fees (2026)

Jurisdiction: City of Georgetown, Williamson County, TX (home-rule city; utilities provided directly by city-operated Georgetown Utility Systems/GUS - NOT an independent MUD or water district). All figures verified 2026-06-16.

Primary source

The City's official FY26 Comprehensive Fee Schedule (Laserfiche public records), which lists two columns "Current Fee" and "Proposed FY26 Fee." FY26 = Oct 1 2025-Sept 30 2026, so the "Proposed FY26 Fee" column is the currently effective adopted fee. The schedule header notes "*Some fees are pending adoption; this is a proposed FY26 schedule." WHAT EXISTS (residential, single-family detached, inside city, 3/4" meter / 1 LUE representative): - Water Impact Fee $11,000/LUE (3/4"); Wastewater Impact Fee $7,000/LUE (eff. 8/31/2025). Both rise on a published, adopted schedule (water -> $12,000 on 8/31/2026 -> $13,000 on 8/31/2027; wastewater -> $10,250 on 8/31/2026 -> $13,500 on 8/31/2027). - Roadway (Transportation) Impact Fee under Ord. 2021-16 (adopted 3/23/2021, collected from 3/1/2023). Representative Service Area A single-family ~$3,619. SEE CAVEAT BELOW. - Physical connection fees (FY26): Water meter connection 3/4" inside city $640; Sewer tap 4" (smallest residential) inside city $1,790; Water eng/inspection SF/DU $625; Wastewater eng/inspection SF/DU $625; Sewer tap eng/inspection SF (inside) $625. - Parkland Dedication fee-in-lieu $780/unit (1-2 units) and Parkland Development fee-in-lieu $1,200/unit (1-2 units), both under the UDC. - Electric connection fee $200 (single-phase 0-400 amp) exists (GUS provides electric) - not itemized as a fee row because it is a utility service connection, not a development/impact fee; noted here for completeness. WHAT DOES NOT EXIST HERE (Texas LGC Ch. 395 limits impact fees to water, wastewater, roadway, and drainage only): - NO school impact fee (prohibited in TX; school facilities funded by Williamson County school districts via property tax/bonds). - NO police, fire, library, general/capital, open-space, or affordable-housing impact fees. - NO standalone "park IMPACT fee" - the parks line items above are parkland DEDICATION/DEVELOPMENT fees-in-lieu under the UDC, legally distinct from Ch. 395 impact fees. - NO mitigation impact fee per se; a tree-mitigation payment-in-lieu exists under the UDC but no exact per-inch figure was pulled from a primary city source, so it is omitted. - Drainage: Georgetown's listed "Drainage Fee" is a calculated monthly stormwater UTILITY charge (not a one-time per-unit development impact fee), and a Stormwater Permit is $2,300 per project - neither is a per-dwelling-unit development impact fee, so no drainage impact-fee row is reported.

Key caveats

1) TRANSPORTATION FEE IS HIGHLY VARIABLE AND IN TRANSITION. 9 service areas (A,B,C,D,E,F,Sun City; Downtown & Lake Georgetown are $0). Area A SF collection rate $3,619 (Oct 1, 2022) per IFAC. The City adopted a 2025 Transportation Impact Fee Study on 8/22/2025 raising fees "from 100% to over 250% for many categories," phasing fully in by Sept 2026; new per-single-family-unit dollar amounts are NOT publicly published (city TIF page and fee calculator return HTTP 403; ZoneFee states transportation amounts "not publicly available"). The $3,619 Area A figure is the documented adopted current-program collection rate (confidence: medium) and should be treated as a representative lower bound. 2) BOT PROTECTION: georgetowntexas.gov is hard-blocked at the server (HTTP 403). City figures obtained from the Laserfiche records portal (direct edoc PDF), revize.com CDN documents, and cloudfront-hosted report PDFs - all official city sources. During this verification the Laserfiche FY26 PDF and the revize IFAC PDF both downloaded successfully via curl with a desktop UA. 3) WATER vs WASTEWATER METER BASIS: residential base is the 3/4" meter (1 LUE). 5/8" variants are included as excluded rows. South Fork wastewater service area has identical wastewater impact-fee amounts (verified - same line values). 4) Per-unit single-family TOTAL of the additive (non-excluded) fee rows: water impact $11,000 + wastewater impact $7,000 + roadway impact ~$3,619 + water meter conn $640 + sewer tap $1,790 + water eng/insp $625 + wastewater eng/insp $625 + sewer tap eng/insp $625 + parkland dedication $780 + parkland development $1,200 = $27,904 per single-family dwelling (inside city, Service Area A, 3/4" meter), with the roadway component subject to substantial increase under the 2025 study.

Verify

confirmed 15 of 15 rows; dropped 0. Every row's amount and sourceQuote were re-confirmed against the cited primary source. FY26 Comprehensive Fee Schedule (sourceIndex 0): water impact 3/4" $11,000 (line 'WATER IMPACT FEE-3/4" $11,000.00 $11,000.00'), wastewater impact 3/4" $7,000 (Eff. 8/31/25 $7,000), water meter conn 3/4" inside $640 (was $350), sewer tap 4" inside $1,790 (was $300), water eng/insp SF $625 (was $500), wastewater eng/insp SF $625 (was $500), sewer tap eng/insp inside SF $625 (was $500), parkland dedication 1-2 units $780/unit, parkland development 1-2 units $1200/unit, water impact 5/8" $7,337, wastewater impact 5/8" $4,669 (Eff. 8/31/25) - all matched exactly. IFAC Recommendations PDF (sourceIndex 1): SF Area A $3,619 (Oct 1, 2022) and MF Area A $1,024 (Oct 1, 2022) - both matched exactly. Community Impact article (sourceIndex 5): water -> $12,000 on Aug. 31, 2026 and wastewater -> $10,250 on Aug. 31, 2026 - both matched verbatim (article also independently corroborated current $11,000 water and $7,000 wastewater). excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE - all flags were already correct. The 5/8" meter variants, the scheduled future-year increases ($12,000 / $10,250), and the multifamily roadway row are all correctly excluded; the 10 single-family additive rows are correctly included. No double-counting detected; recomputed included SF total = $27,904 (matches researcher's stated total). Roadway SF and MF rows retained at medium confidence (number confirmed, but program in transition per 2025 study). Sources index 2, 3, 4, and 6 were not the cited basis for any surviving fee amount and were not separately re-fetched (supporting/context sources only).