Spanish Fork, UT Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Spanish Fork

$26,834 total per unit across 8 fee categories.

Spanish Fork’s $26,834 is about 1.6× the Utah tracked median of $16,967 — among the higher-cost places to build in the state.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Coverage & caveats

PRIMARY SOURCE: Spanish Fork City official Engineering "Master Plans & Impact Fees" page, which publishes a live per-single-family-unit impact fee table with two columns: "7/2024-2025" (prior schedule) and "2026" (current schedule). The 2026 figures were adopted at a City Council public hearing on October 21, 2025 (PMN notice) covering Power & Light, Storm Water, Drinking Water, Pressurized Irrigation, Wastewater, Public Safety, and Parks/Trails/Recreation; the building-fees page confirms FY2026 fees are EFFECTIVE 07/01/2025-06/30/2026. As of 2026-06-17 the "2026" column is the currently-effective schedule and is used for all primary rows; the "7/2024-2025" amounts are included as reference in notes. CATEGORIES FOUND (per single-family unit, 2026): Transportation $1,992.92; Parks/Recreation $4,896.00; Public Safety (combined police+fire) $1,106.29; Drinking Water $2,260.50; Wastewater/Sewer $5,763.51; Storm Water $1,253.21 (Storm w/LID alternative $1,241.97); Pressurized Irrigation (secondary water) $1,588.06; Power/electric $2,136.90; plus a bundled Building Permit & Hookup Fee $5,836.77. Published subtotal $20,997.39; published all-in total $26,834.16. WHAT DOES NOT EXIST HERE: NO school impact fee (Utah law does not authorize school impact fees; schools funded by Nebo School District property tax). NO separate library, open-space, affordable-housing, or general/capital impact fee. NO mitigation fee published. Spanish Fork is a full-service municipal utility city, so water, sewer, storm, secondary irrigation, AND electric power impact fees are all levied by the CITY itself (not a separate district). Public Safety is a single combined fee rather than separate police and fire impact fees. CAVEATS: Storm Water and Storm-w/LID are mutually exclusive (LID = low-impact-development credit); base Storm Water used as primary, LID variant excluded. Power impact fee shown is the base residential 100A/24kW single-phase service. Connection/hookup and building-permit charges are bundled in one published line and recorded as a single general connection/hookup row. Methodology comes from the city's 2017 Impact Fee Analysis (residential = per ERU/ERC) and Impact Fee Facilities Plan. VERIFY: confirmed 12 of 12 rows; dropped 0. All nine individual impact-fee amounts and the bundled Building Permit & Hookup line ($5,836.77), subtotal ($20,997.39 context), and total ($26,834.16) match the primary city table exactly (re-fetched 2026-06-17). IFA PDF (sourceIndex 3) re-fetched and confirmed authentic (residential per-ERU/ERC methodology; Power, Storm, Drinking Water, Pressurized Irrigation, Wastewater, Parks/Trails/Rec, Transportation, Public Safety = Fire/EMS + Police). PMN notice (sourceIndex 2) returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch; confirmed via verbatim search-engine snippet of the Oct 21, 2025 hearing covering the seven utility/service categories (no confidence change since the same figures are corroborated by the primary table). Building Permit & Hookup row kept at medium confidence (bundles a non-impact permit fee with connection charges). excludeFromTotal corrections: none needed — Storm w/LID alternative and the all-in Total row were already correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true; sum of included rows = $26,834.16, matching the city's published all-in total, no double-counting.

All residential impact fees are charged per single-family residential unit (1 ERU/ERC) at issuance of the building permit (storm water and pressurized-irrigation water rights at plat approval). Multifamily units are charged as a fraction of an ERU/ERC that varies by utility category (e.g., wastewater ERU is based on 166 gpd domestic production; drinking water ERC is based on a 1-inch residential connection); the city publishes only a single-family schedule, so no separate per-unit multifamily dollar figures are published. The "Building Permit & Hookup Fee" line ($5,836.77) bundles the building permit (a non-impact regulatory fee) and utility hookup/connection charges; the city does not break out separate water-tap vs sewer-tap dollar amounts on the public schedule, so it is recorded once as a general connection/hookup category rather than split (medium confidence because it aggregates a permit fee with connection charges). Water rights: in addition to fees, Spanish Fork requires developers to dedicate/transfer water rights in-kind at final plat (formula-based on landscaped area + units; ERC = 0.32 acre-feet/yr) OR pay a pressurized-irrigation water-rights impact fee; this is a real, significant residential cost but is not a single published flat per-unit dollar amount, so it is omitted from the numeric rows.

Sources

4 official sources · 10 high-confidence figures.

Spanish Fork impact fees — FAQ

How much are development impact fees in Spanish Fork, UT for a single-family home?

As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Spanish Fork are about $26,834 per unit — roughly $17,222 in impact/development fees plus $9,612 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

Are impact fees in Spanish Fork 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 Spanish Fork'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 Spanish Fork on 2026-06-17.