Georgetown, TX Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Georgetown

$26,114 total per unit across 4 fee categories.

Georgetown’s $26,114 is about 2.0× the Texas tracked median of $12,871 — among the higher-cost places to build in the state.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Coverage & caveats

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, etag dated Oct 27 2025), 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 are funded by Williamson County school districts via property tax/bonds, not builder impact fees). - NO police, fire, library, general/capital, open-space, or affordable-housing impact fees (none allowed/levied). - NO standalone "park IMPACT fee" - the parks line items above are parkland DEDICATION/DEVELOPMENT fees-in-lieu under the UDC, which are legally distinct from Ch. 395 impact fees. - NO mitigation impact fee per se; a tree-mitigation payment-in-lieu exists under the UDC (ZoneFee cites ~$550 per mitigation inch) but I could not pull the exact per-inch figure from a primary city source, so it is omitted to preserve integrity (the rate is project/tree-specific). - 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. There are 9 service areas (A,B,C,D,E,F,Sun City fee areas; Downtown & Lake Georgetown are $0). Max assessable fee per service unit (per vehicle-mile) ranges $1,247 (Sun City) to $4,577 (Area F); single-family detached = 4.26 veh-mi/unit. The 1-2 family assessed collection rate in the current 3/1/2023-3/1/2026 window is 32%-52% by area, stepping up to 49%-75% after 3/1/2026. CRITICALLY, 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; the new per-single-family-unit dollar amounts are NOT publicly published in any extractable source (the city's TIF page and fee calculator return HTTP 403 to all automated/curl/browser access; ZoneFee explicitly states transportation amounts are "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 pending the 2025-study schedule. 2) BOT PROTECTION: georgetowntexas.gov is hard-blocked at the server (HTTP 403) to curl, WebFetch, and the headless browser. All city figures were obtained from the Laserfiche records portal (direct edoc PDF), the city's revize.com CDN documents, and cloudfront-hosted agenda/report PDFs - all official city sources. 3) WATER vs WASTEWATER METER BASIS: residential base is the 3/4" meter (1 LUE). 5/8" and larger meter variants are included as excluded rows. South Fork wastewater service area has identical wastewater impact-fee amounts. 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.

All "Proposed FY26 Fee" column values are the currently adopted/effective fees (FY26 began 10/1/2025; schedule etag Oct 27 2025). Water and wastewater impact fees are per LUE based on a 3/4" meter (= 1 residential LUE) and are levied city-wide. The roadway/transportation impact fee is the only major fee that is service-area dependent and is the largest source of uncertainty (see coverageNotes caveat #1). Connection/tap and engineering-inspection fees are additive to the impact fees. Parkland dedication and parkland development are separate, both per dwelling unit, both additive.

Sources

7 official sources · 13 high-confidence figures.

Georgetown impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Georgetown, TX for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-16, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Georgetown are about $26,114 per unit — roughly $5,599 in impact/development fees plus $20,515 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

Are impact fees in Georgetown 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 Georgetown'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 Georgetown on 2026-06-16.