Buckeye, Arizona - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Development (Impact) Fees - ARS 9-463.05

Buckeye levies development (impact) fees under Arizona Revised Statutes 9-463.05. The current program was adopted by Resolution 04-25 on February 18, 2025 and took effect May 5, 2025, based on the TischlerBise Land Use Assumptions, Infrastructure Improvements Plan, and Development Fee Report (the Land Use Assumptions and IIP were adopted first by Resolution 77-24 on November 19, 2024). Non-utility fees (fire, library, parks and recreation, police, streets) are assessed per dwelling unit for residential and per 1,000 square feet for nonresidential, and several facilities vary by service area. The representative Low/Medium Density (under 8 dwelling units per acre) residential per-unit figures below are captured verbatim from Figure 6 of the adopted Development Fee Report.

Non-Utility Development Fees - Low/Medium Density Residential (per unit)

High Density (8 or more dwelling units per acre), Age-Restricted residential, and nonresidential (per 1,000 square feet: Industrial, Commercial, Office and Other Services, Institutional) development fees are itemized by the same facility-and-service-area matrix in Figure 6 of the adopted Development Fee Report (see Sources). Those additional rows are not reproduced here; consult the source document for the complete matrix.

Zoning, Planning, and Plat Fees

Source: City of Buckeye Development User Fee Schedule, adopted by Resolution 38-26, effective May 21, 2026, Section 1 (Planning). Building Safety (Section 4, vertical construction) and Engineering Review (Sections 2-3) fees are computed on valuation and sheet-count formulas in the same schedule and are not reproduced as flat amounts here.

Fee authority: City of Buckeye Development Services.

Water and Wastewater Development Fees

Buckeye operates its own municipal water and wastewater utility (Water Resources Department). The ARS 9-463.05 water and wastewater development (capacity) fees are collected at building permit issuance and are assessed per dwelling unit by density and service area for residential, and per meter for nonresidential. A separate physical meter installation fee (the meter set) is charged under the Schedule of Meter Installation Fees. The water and wastewater development fees are effective May 5, 2025 (Development Fee Report Figures 7 and 8); the residential per-unit figures below are captured verbatim.

Water and Wastewater Development Fees - Residential (per unit)

Nonresidential water and wastewater development fees are assessed per meter (for example, 1.0-inch Disc at the Central service-area rate, scaling to 1.5-inch Turbine, and above 1.5-inch by a cost-per-gallon rate) in the same Figures 7 and 8; consult the source for the full per-service-area nonresidential matrix.

Meter Installation Fees (physical meter set)

Source: City of Buckeye Schedule of Meter Installation Fees, Exhibit A to Resolution 47-19 (Water Resources Department). These physical meter-set charges are separate from and in addition to the ARS 9-463.05 water and wastewater development fees above.

Utility fee authority: City of Buckeye Water Resources Department.

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

This page is published under ZoneFee's partial-verified standard while additional confirmation is pending (the record remains under limited-coverage review). The items below were closed by official-source review or deferred to the cited source document rather than estimated or omitted silently.

Full Per-Service-Area and Nonresidential Matrices

The complete Figure 6 non-utility development fee matrix (High Density, Age-Restricted, and nonresidential rows across every facility and service area) and the full nonresidential water and wastewater matrices (Figures 7 and 8) are enumerated in the adopted Development Fee Report. This page presents the verbatim Low/Medium Density residential figures and representative service-area cells; the additional rows are not reproduced here and should be read from the source document listed under Sources.

Building Safety and Engineering Fees

Building Safety (vertical construction, Section 4) and Engineering Review (Sections 2 and 3) fees in the Development User Fee Schedule are computed on valuation and sheet-count formulas rather than fixed flat amounts, and are not reproduced as single figures on this page. Consult the Development User Fee Schedule for those computations.

Proffers

Arizona jurisdictions do not use Virginia-style cash proffers (a Virginia conditional-zoning mechanism under Virginia Code 15.2-2303). Developer-side capital contributions in Buckeye occur through the ARS 9-463.05 development fees and the utility development and meter fees captured above. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Special District Fees (CFD / Improvement District)

No developer-facing Community Facilities District (CFD) or improvement-district application fee is levied by the City of Buckeye on its published fee schedules. Arizona CFDs (for example, Buckeye's Watson Road CFD) are separate Title 48 taxing and financing districts, not City-imposed developer application fees. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction as a development-phase fee.

Effective Dates and Census FIPS Code

The development (impact) fees and the water and wastewater development fees are effective May 5, 2025 (Resolution 04-25); the Development User Fee Schedule zoning and planning fees are effective May 21, 2026 (Resolution 38-26); the meter installation fees are the current published schedule under Resolution 47-19. The Census place FIPS code for Buckeye was not confirmed from an official Census source this pass and is not published here.

Fee Authorities

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