South Jordan, UT Development Impact Fees (2026)
Normalized development impact fees, water & sewer connection (tap/SDC) fees, and mitigation fees for South Jordan, Utah — per dwelling unit, by category, with links to every official source.
What a single-family home pays in South Jordan
$21,876 total per unit across 6 fee categories.
- Sewer connection (tap / SDC)$6,637
- Parks & recreation$6,552
- Water connection (tap / SDC)$3,541
- Transportation / roads$3,403
- Public safety$939
- Drainage / stormwater$804
South Jordan’s $21,876 is about 1.3× the Utah tracked median of $16,967 — 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 Transportation Impact Fee (South Jordan Proper) — Citywide standard ('South Jordan Proper') transportation impact fee per Ordinance No. 2024-15 (adopted Aug 6, 2024). Based on 9.43 trip ends x $360.88/trip. The schedule also lists a lower 'Daybreak Adjusted Fee' ($705.17) for the master-planned Daybreak community and separate Service Area fees (Last Hold Out, Lark Meadows) — those are mutually-exclusive variants (excluded). VERIFIED verbatim against Combined Impact Fee Schedule 10/23/2025. | per dwelling unit | $3,403 | South Jordan City Aug 6, 2024High |
Transportation / roads Transportation Impact Fee — Daybreak Adjusted (master-planned area) — Mutually-exclusive variant: lower SFD transportation fee applied ONLY in the Daybreak master-planned community (Daybreak Adjusted Fee column, $74.78/trip), which receives credit for developer-constructed roads. Excluded so the citywide SFD fee is not double-counted. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $705 | South Jordan City Aug 6, 2024High |
Transportation / roads Transportation Impact Fee — Service Area 1 Last Hold Out (Bastian Property) — Mutually-exclusive special-area transportation fee per Ordinance No. 2024-21 (Service Area 1 'Last Hold Out', adopted Oct 1, 2024). Two sub-areas: School District Property SFD $860.36, Bastian Property SFD $1,715.39. Applies ONLY in that service area; excluded from the representative SFD total. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $1,715 | South Jordan City Oct 1, 2024High |
Transportation / roads Transportation Impact Fee — Service Area 2 Lark Meadows — Mutually-exclusive special-area transportation fee per Ordinance No. 2023-03 (Service Area 2 'Lark Meadows', adopted Feb 7, 2023), $446.75/trip. Applies ONLY in that service area; excluded from the representative SFD total. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $2,106 | South Jordan City Feb 7, 2023High |
Parks & recreation Park Impact Fee — Park impact fee per household, Ordinance No. 2025-12 (adopted July 15, 2025) — the most recently updated impact fee. VERIFIED verbatim. | per dwelling unit | $6,552 | South Jordan City Jul 15, 2025High |
Public safety Combined Public Safety Impact Fee (Fire/EMS + Police) — Combined public safety impact fee per Ordinance No. 2024-05 (adopted Mar 19, 2024) = Fire/EMS $734.00 + Police $205.00 = $939.00 per single-family unit. Fire and police component rows are marked excludeFromTotal to avoid double-counting against this combined row. VERIFIED verbatim. | per dwelling unit | $939 | South Jordan City Mar 19, 2024High |
Fire / EMS Fire/EMS Impact Fee (component of combined public safety fee) — Fire/EMS component of the combined public safety impact fee (Ord. 2024-05). Multi-Family = $271.00/unit. Marked excludeFromTotal because it is already included in the $939 combined public safety row. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $734 | South Jordan City Mar 19, 2024High |
Police Police Impact Fee (component of combined public safety fee) — Police component of the combined public safety impact fee (Ord. 2024-05). Multi-Family = $70.00/unit. Marked excludeFromTotal because it is already included in the $939 combined public safety row. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $205 | South Jordan City Mar 19, 2024High |
Drainage / stormwater Storm Water Impact Fee (R-2.5 zone, 1 ERU base) — Storm water impact fee per Ordinance No. 2015-18 (table dated adopted Oct 21, 2025). Fee = ERU multiplier x $804.00/ERU; ERUs = impervious area / 4,752 SF. R-2.5 (4,752 SF impervious, multiplier 1) = $804.00 is the base 1-ERU representative SFD. Other residential zones are mutually-exclusive size variants: R-3 = $675.00, R-1.8 = $981.00, A-1/A-5 = $1,873.00. VERIFIED verbatim. | per dwelling unit | $804 | South Jordan City Oct 21, 2025High |
Drainage / stormwater Storm Water Impact Fee — R-1.8 zone (smaller lot) — Mutually-exclusive storm water lot-size variant (R-1.8 zone, multiplier 1.22). Excluded from the representative SFD total in favor of the R-2.5 base. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $981 | South Jordan City Oct 21, 2025High |
Drainage / stormwater Storm Water Impact Fee — A-1/A-5 zone (large lot) — Mutually-exclusive storm water lot-size variant (large-lot A-1/A-5 zones, multiplier 2.33). Excluded from representative SFD total. R-3 (small lot) = $675.00 is also a variant. VERIFIED verbatim. alternative · not added to total | per dwelling unit | $1,873 | South Jordan City Oct 21, 2025High |
Water & sewer connection fees
| Fee (local term) | Basis | Amount | Source · effective |
|---|---|---|---|
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water Impact Fee (3/4" residential meter) — Culinary water impact (capacity) fee per Ordinance No. 2018-03. Priced by meter size at 1.00 equivalency for the base 3/4" residential meter (primary). Larger meters are mutually-exclusive variants (1"=$5,189.82, 1.5"=$10,348.56, 2"=$16,563.91) — omitted as larger-meter variants. South Jordan City is the culinary water provider. VERIFIED verbatim. | per meter | $3,108 | South Jordan City Apr 3, 2018Highdated 2018 |
Water connection (tap / SDC) Water Meter Fee (3/4" meter) — physical connection/installation — Additive physical water meter installation/connection fee from the FY2025-2026 City Fee Schedule, on top of the water impact (capacity) fee. 3/4" residential meter is primary; larger meters (1"=$567.05, 1.5"=$942.81, 2"=$1,165.01) omitted as variants. VERIFIED verbatim. Confidence lowered to medium: this is a meter hardware/installation charge rather than a capacity impact fee, so its inclusion as a 'connection' cost is borderline. | per meter | $433 | South Jordan City Jul 1, 2025Medium |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Sewer Impact Fee — Jordan Basin Improvement District, Service Area 1 (separate district) — SEPARATE DISTRICT fee. Sewer in South Jordan is provided by the Jordan Basin Improvement District (JBID, formerly South Valley Sewer District), NOT by the City. JBID 2026 Budget confirms 'Service Area 1 basically encompasses Salt Lake County' (includes South Jordan). The JBID utility fee schedule (cited source) lists 'Current Fees' Single Family Detached = $6,637.31. VERIFIED verbatim against the JBID utility fee schedule page. CONFIDENCE LOWERED to medium: the JBID 2026 Budget narrative table lists a different Service Area 1 SFD impact fee ($3,270.00 for 2025/2026), conflicting with the utility-fee-schedule page's $6,637.31. The utility fee schedule is the current customer-facing operative document, but the two official JBID documents disagree. | per dwelling unit | $6,637 | Jordan Basin Improvement District —Medium |
Sewer connection (tap / SDC) Sewer Lateral Fee — JBID (4" lateral in asphalt, separate district) — SEPARATE DISTRICT (JBID) conditional physical lateral installation fee, charged only where the District installs the lateral from main to property line. 4" in asphalt $3,600 / out of asphalt $3,100. Conditional and not always applicable, so excluded from the standard per-unit total. VERIFIED verbatim against the JBID utility fee schedule. alternative · not added to total | $3,600 | Jordan Basin Improvement District —High |
Coverage & caveats
South Jordan's residential impact fees come from the City's "Combined Impact Fee Schedule" (created/updated 10/23/2025 — the current authoritative document) plus the FY2025-2026 City Fee Schedule for the physical water meter fee. Sewer is provided by a SEPARATE district (Jordan Basin Improvement District / JBID, formerly South Valley Sewer District), whose utility fee schedule was used. CATEGORIES FOUND (representative single-family detached, per dwelling unit unless noted): - Transportation: $3,403.10 (citywide 'South Jordan Proper', Ord. 2024-15). Daybreak master-planned area pays a lower $705.17; special service areas (Last Hold Out $1,715.39 Bastian / $860.36 School District; Lark Meadows $2,106.44) are mutually-exclusive area variants (excluded). Multifamily low-rise $2,432.33. - Parks: $6,552 SFD / $4,188 MF (Ord. 2025-12, the most recently adopted impact fee). - Public Safety (combined Fire/EMS + Police): $939 SFD ($734 Fire/EMS + $205 Police) / $341 MF (Ord. 2024-05). Fire and Police are reported as components with excludeFromTotal=true so the $939 combined row is not double-counted. - Water impact (capacity) fee: $3,107.68 at the base 3/4" meter (Ord. 2018-03), plus an additive physical Water Meter Fee of $433.29 (3/4") from the FY25-26 fee schedule (a meter installation charge, confidence lowered to medium). South Jordan City is the culinary water provider. - Storm Water impact fee: $804.00 base for a mid-density R-2.5 lot (1 ERU x $804/ERU, Ord. 2015-18); lot-size variants R-3 $675, R-1.8 $981, large-lot A-1/A-5 $1,873 (excluded as mutually-exclusive size tiers). - Sewer (SEPARATE DISTRICT — JBID Service Area 1, the Salt Lake County area covering South Jordan): $6,637.31 SFD / $4,845.24 per unit for other residential (per JBID utility fee schedule). Optional JBID lateral installation fee $3,600 (4" in asphalt). WHAT DOES NOT EXIST HERE: No school impact fee (Utah's Impact Fees Act does not authorize school impact fees). No library, open-space, affordable-housing, general/capital, or mitigation impact fee. No CITY sewer impact fee (sewer is entirely JBID). No City secondary/pressurized-irrigation IMPACT fee on the combined schedule (only a 1" secondary water METER fee of $559.13 — operational, omitted). NORMALIZATION & CAVEATS: SFD is primary; MF per-unit rows and all mutually-exclusive variants (transportation service areas / Daybreak, storm-water lot-size zones, larger water meters, MF sewer, conditional lateral) are marked excludeFromTotal=true. Fire/Police rows are components of the single combined Public Safety fee and excluded to avoid double-counting against the $939 row. Representative non-excluded SFD total = Transportation $3,403.10 + Parks $6,552.00 + Public Safety $939.00 + Water impact $3,107.68 + Storm Water $804.00 + Water Meter Fee $433.29 = ~$15,239 in CITY fees, plus separate-district JBID sewer $6,637.31 = ~$21,876. No double-counting among included rows. VERIFY: confirmed 19 of 19 fee rows; dropped 0. All sourceIndex-0 rows verified verbatim against the downloaded Combined Impact Fee Schedule PDF (Public Safety Ord. 2024-05, Water Ord. 2018-03, Storm Water Ord. 2015-18 adopted 10/21/2025, Park Ord. 2025-12, Transportation Ord. 2024-15, Service Area 1 Ord. 2024-21, Service Area 2 Ord. 2023-03). The FY25-26 Water Meter Fee (3/4") $433.29 verified verbatim from the downloaded City fee schedule PDF. JBID sewer rows ($6,637.31, $4,845.24) and 4" lateral ($3,600.00) verified verbatim from the raw HTML of the JBID utility fee schedule page. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE — all flags were already correct (MF variants, Daybreak, transportation service areas, storm-water lot-size variants, larger water meters, MF sewer, fire/police components, and conditional lateral all correctly true; the six representative SFD rows correctly not excluded). CONFIDENCE downgrades: (1) Both JBID sewer impact-fee rows lowered from high to medium because the JBID 2026 Budget narrative table lists conflicting Service Area 1 figures ($3,270 SFD / $2,387 other) versus the utility fee schedule page's $6,637.31 / $4,845.24 — two official JBID documents disagree; the cited utility fee schedule was confirmed verbatim. (2) Water Meter Fee (3/4") lowered from high to medium because it is a meter hardware/installation charge rather than a capacity impact fee. DATA CORRECTION: population changed from researcher's 84,528 to 82,686 (U.S. Census Bureau V2024 / ACS 2019-2023 estimate); the researcher's 84,528 could not be confirmed against any Census source (QuickFacts returned HTTP 403, but multiple secondary sources and the ACS 5-year estimate give 82,686; 2020 census count was 77,971).
A representative new single-family detached home in South Jordan pays the following ADDITIVE impact fees (per dwelling unit, representative tiers): Transportation $3,403.10 + Parks $6,552.00 + Combined Public Safety (Fire/EMS+Police) $939.00 + Water impact $3,107.68 + Storm Water ~$804.00 (R-2.5 base) = ~$14,805.78 in CITY impact fees, PLUS the separate-district JBID sewer impact fee of $6,637.31 (Service Area 1, per the JBID utility fee schedule), for a combined ~$21,443 in impact fees. On top of that, additive physical-connection fees apply: a Water Meter installation fee of $433.29 (3/4") to the City and, if the District installs the sewer lateral, a JBID lateral fee of ~$3,600 (4" in asphalt). Amounts vary with lot size (storm water tier), meter size (water), and special transportation service areas — homes in the Daybreak master-planned community pay a much lower transportation fee ($705.17). No school, library, open-space, affordable-housing, general, or mitigation impact fees exist here, and the City levies no sewer impact fee (sewer is the Jordan Basin Improvement District). NOTE: the JBID sewer amounts ($6,637.31 / $4,845.24) come from the JBID utility fee schedule and conflict with the JBID 2026 Budget narrative ($3,270 / $2,387); confidence on the sewer rows is medium.
Sources
5 official sources · 16 high-confidence figures.
- 1South Jordan City Combined Impact Fee Schedule (Updated 10/23/2025)South Jordan City · fee schedule · effective Oct 23, 2025 · retrieved Jun 17, 2026
- 2Utility Fee Schedule — Jordan Basin Improvement District (formerly South Valley Sewer District)Jordan Basin Improvement District · fee schedule · retrieved Jun 17, 2026
- 3South Jordan City Fee Schedule FY 2025-2026South Jordan City · fee schedule · effective Jul 1, 2025 · retrieved Jun 17, 2026
- 4Jordan Basin Improvement District 2026 Budget (Service Area / impact fee narrative)Jordan Basin Improvement District · government report · effective Nov 1, 2025 · retrieved Jun 17, 2026
- 5U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: South Jordan city, UtahU.S. Census Bureau · government report · retrieved Jun 17, 2026
South Jordan impact fees — FAQ
- How much are development impact fees in South Jordan, UT for a single-family home?
- As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in South Jordan are about $21,876 per unit — roughly $11,698 in impact/development fees plus $10,178 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.
- Are impact fees in South Jordan 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 South Jordan'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 South Jordan on 2026-06-17.