Vancouver, WA Development Impact Fees (2026)

FOUND (all from City of Vancouver official Building Permit Fees schedule, effective 1/1/2026, high confidence): (1) Traffic/transportation impact fee (TIF), single-family by district — Cascade $2,745.50, Columbia $2,006, Pacific $3,570 (mutually exclusive; pick the one for the parcel). (2) Park impact fee, uniform across Districts A/B/C — SF/duplex $6,130, MF $4,480 per unit. (3) School impact fee — set by the school district, COLLECTED BY THE CITY: Vancouver PS $2,786 SF / $2,486 MF; Evergreen PS $0/$0 (per its revised Capital Facilities Plan); Camas SD $6,650; Battle Ground SD $10,760 SF / $3,845 MF (the latter two cover only small slivers of the city). The applicable school fee depends on which district the parcel falls in. (4) Water SDC $3,783.95 and Sewer SDC $3,768.42 (5/8\"x3/4\" base residential meter; scales with meter size), plus a separate additive water meter & service installation charge ($5,010 for 5/8\"x3/4\") and small application fees ($135 water, $25 sewer). DOES NOT EXIST / NOT COLLECTED by the City of Vancouver: NO fire impact fee, NO police/public-safety impact fee, NO stormwater/drainage impact fee, NO library, open-space, affordable-housing, or general/capital impact fee, and NO mitigation fee on the schedule — the city's Impact Fees tab lists only School, Traffic, and Park. (Note: Washington law DOES authorize fire impact fees, but Vancouver does not levy one.) CAVEATS: (a) ADU rates are not separately published on the fee schedule; impact fees for ADUs are computed under the same per-dwelling-unit / trip-generation methodology. (b) TIF is technically calculated as ADT x cost-per-trip x 0.85 (2025 study cost/trip: Columbia $247, Cascade $338, Pacific $439; SF detached = ~10 ADT); the city's published 2026 single-family rates are used here. (c) In Aug 2025 the City Council authorized DEFERRAL of park and traffic impact fees (and SDCs) for multifamily projects to encourage housing — this defers timing of payment (until Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, effective 9/18/2025), not the amount. (d) Parcels needing a Clark County right-of-way permit for a new service pay additional county ROW fees ($200 + per-foot charges, per Clark County 13.12A.030). (e) The vancouver.municipal.codes site is behind Cloudflare bot protection (could not be fetched directly), but the city's own fee-schedule webpage provided all verbatim figures.

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confirmed 14 of 14 rows; dropped 0. All 14 fee rows cite sourceIndex 0 (official Building Permit Fees page); every amount and sourceQuote was confirmed verbatim against that source on 2026-06-16 (TIF Cascade/Columbia/Pacific $2,745.50/$2,006/$3,570; Park SF $6,130 / MF $4,480; School Vancouver $2,786/$2,486, Evergreen $0/$0 with footnote, Camas $6,650, Battle Ground $10,760/$3,845; Water SDC $3,783.95; Sewer SDC $3,768.42; Water meter & service 5/8x3/4 $5,010 confirmed with service-only=N/A column). The Columbian deferral article (sourceIndex 4) returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch but was independently confirmed via web search — it reports the council's unanimous Aug 2025 vote to defer park, traffic, and SDC fees for multifamily until Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (effective 9/18/2025), changing payment timing not amount; this corroborates the related notes. excludeFromTotal corrections: NONE — all flags verified correct. Excluded-from-total rows (mutually-exclusive alternatives or non-SF land uses): Columbia TIF, Pacific TIF, Park MF, Vancouver School MF, Evergreen/Camas/Battle Ground school. Non-excluded additive SF-detached/Cascade/Vancouver-SD primaries: Cascade TIF, Park SF, Vancouver School SF, Water SDC, Sewer SDC, Water meter & service install — these are non-overlapping and sum to a sane $24,223.87 with no double-counting.