Tooele, UT Development Impact Fees (2026)

What a single-family home pays in Tooele

$16,967 total per unit across 5 fee categories.

Tooele’s $16,967 is close to the Utah tracked median of $16,967.

Full fee schedule — single-family

Full fee schedule — multifamily

Coverage & caveats

Tooele City (incorporated, Tooele County, UT) collects development impact fees under TCC Chapter 4-15 and the Utah Impact Fees Act (UCA Ch. 11-39 / 11-36a) in exactly FOUR categories: (1) Culinary Water, (2) Sanitary Sewer, (3) Parks & Recreation, and (4) Public Safety (split into Fire and Police sub-fees). All figures here are taken verbatim from the City's current adopted Master Fee Schedule dated May 4, 2026 (the authoritative current source); they are unchanged from the May 2023 codified Chapter 4-15 text. The four single-family impact fees sum to $16,202.80, which matches Tooele City Resolution 2026-08 (Feb 2026) stating "for all single-family residential building permits, the current impact fee is $16,000 per unit." PRIMARY ROWS reflect a standard single-family detached dwelling; multifamily (apartment buildings of 3+ units/building) per-unit rows are included where the schedule provides them (parks, fire, police). Water and sewer impact fees are charged per ERC/ERU (one residential connection = 1 unit) and apply equally to SFD and MF on a per-unit basis. ADU RULE: per the fee schedule, attached or detached ADU impact fees are 50% of the single-family impact fees; INTERNAL ADUs pay NO impact fees. WHAT DOES NOT EXIST HERE: NO school impact fee (school impact fees are not authorized in Utah; the Tooele County School District funds capital via property tax/bonds). NO transportation/roads/traffic impact fee. NO storm-water/drainage impact or connection fee (the schedule's "Storm Water Fees" is a monthly utility rate, not a one-time development/connection charge; a $1.50/sq-ft figure in the schedule is a "Roads <5 Years Old" road-cut/pavement-restoration charge, not an impact fee). NO library, open-space, affordable-housing, or general/capital impact fee. NO separate water or sewer DISTRICT — Tooele City provides both culinary water and sanitary sewer directly, so there is no extra district connection charge. SEPARATE-DISTRICT NOTE: Tooele COUNTY also has impact fees (County Ordinance 2024-07 / April 2024 Impact Fee Facilities Plan), but those apply to UNINCORPORATED Tooele County, not within incorporated Tooele City; a builder inside Tooele City does not pay county impact fees. CONNECTION/TAP COSTS: there is no separate water "tap/capacity" connection fee beyond the Culinary Water Impact Fee; the only one-time connection charges are a $170 Water Connection Inspection Fee, a $170 Sewer Connection Inspection Fee, and the actual water meter purchase cost ($424 for the standard 3/4" residential meter). Confidence is HIGH across all rows (current official adopted schedule with exact quotes). VERIFY: Independently re-fetched all 4 sources on 2026-06-17. Source 0 (fee schedule) returned HTTP 403 on the www.tooelecity.gov URL but was retrieved with identical content at https://files.tooelecity.gov/Documents/FeeSchedules/Fee%20Schedule%20(05-04-26).pdf — header confirmed "(Current as of May 4, 2026)", 31 pages. Source 1 (Chapter 15, May 2023) and Source 2 (Resolution 2026-08) both downloaded HTTP 200 and confirm their cited content; Resolution 2026-08 contains the verbatim text "for all single-family residential building permits, the current impact fee is $16,000 per unit." Confirmed 15 of 15 rows; dropped 0. Every amount AND sourceQuote was found verbatim in the primary fee schedule (impact fees: water $7,805/ERC p.26, sewer $4,731/ERU p.27, parks SFR $3,194 / MF $2,252 p.2, fire SFD $255.90 / MF $188.80 and police SFD $216.90 / MF $221.00 p.15; connection inspections $170 water p.26 / $170 sewer p.27; meter costs 3/4"=$424, 1"=$484, 1.5"=$1,805, 2"=$2,051 p.26) and cross-confirmed in Chapter 15. SFD impact-fee sum recomputed = $16,202.80 (sane, corroborated by Resolution 2026-08). Confirmed negative claims: Storm Water Fees is a monthly utility rate table not a one-time fee; the $1.50/sq.ft entry is a "Roads <5 Years Old" pavement-restoration charge not an impact fee; no transportation/road/traffic/school impact fee present; ADU 50%/internal-$0 rule confirmed verbatim. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE NEEDED — larger meter variants (1", 1.5", 2") correctly flagged excludeFromTotal=true as mutually-exclusive size variants; representative 3/4" meter, both $170 inspections, and the five SFD impact-fee categories left in-total; multifamily rows retained as a distinct land use (not double-counted in the SFD representative). Confidence retained HIGH for all rows (verified directly against the current adopted official schedule).

All amounts quoted verbatim from Tooele City Master Fee Schedule, "Current as of May 4, 2026" (Page references: Parks p.2, Public Safety p.15, Impact Fees summary p.24, Water p.26, Sewer pp.27-28), independently re-verified 2026-06-17. Single-family detached total of the four impact-fee categories = $7,805 (water) + $4,731 (sewer) + $3,194 (parks) + $255.90 (fire) + $216.90 (police) = $16,202.80, corroborated by Resolution 2026-08 ("current impact fee is $16,000 per unit"). Water/sewer impact fees are per ERC/ERU; one single-family or one multifamily dwelling = 1 unit, so the same per-unit amount applies to both land uses (multifamily water/sewer rows omitted to avoid double counting in the SFD total). Water meter cost ($424 for 3/4") is an equipment purchase a builder pays at new connection; larger meter sizes (1"=$484, 1.5"=$1,805, 2"=$2,051, 3"=$2,540, 4"=$4,259, 6"=$7,203) are mutually-exclusive variants marked excludeFromTotal. ADU impact fees = 50% of single-family (internal ADUs $0).

Sources

5 official sources · 14 high-confidence figures.

Tooele impact fees — FAQ

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

As of 2026-06-17, total development fees for a single-family detached home in Tooele are about $16,967 per unit — roughly $3,667 in impact/development fees plus $13,300 in water/sewer connection fees. Figures are normalized from official sources; verify with the jurisdiction before relying on them.

What are the impact fees per multifamily unit in Tooele, UT?

Total development fees for a multifamily unit in Tooele are about $2,662 per unit as of 2026-06-17.

Are impact fees in Tooele 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 Tooele'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 Tooele on 2026-06-17.