Understanding Impact Fees in New Development

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]So, things like impact fees. Impact fees are what cities charge you for new development for the amount of amount of utilities that you're adding to and impacting on their city. Right, it might be you know, the amount of drains you're adding in, how much how much sewage you're going to be adding to the system, and they they say, "Hey, there's a charge." They call it an impact fee.

[00:00:19]Nothing worse than than than getting under construction and finding out, "Oh my god, I've got a $1,000 impact fee on a project I had no idea the city even charge." You didn't even expect it.

[00:00:29]You're like, "What what what Why am I Why am I paying it?" Well, because it's a new development, especially new development you get them. And some of the older developments, you got to go back and look at You got to understand what impact fees were paid, and then what the differences are between what you're designing and what they're designing. Make sure you're not double paying for some impact fees.