Glendale, Arizona - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Development Impact Fees - Effective September 8, 2025

Source: City of Glendale Development Impact Fee Schedule, effective September 8, 2025, revised June 24, 2026 (SHA-256 9e6fc705...). Glendale assesses non-utility development fees pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes Section 9-463.05 across five facility categories: Fire, Library, Police, Streets, and Parks and Recreation. Residential fees are charged per housing unit; nonresidential fees are charged per 1,000 square feet of building, with assisted living charged per bed and lodging per room. Every line is itemized by service area. The Streets and Parks and Recreation components are what differ between East Glendale and West Glendale. Water and wastewater utility development fees are the utility-side ARS 9-463.05 charges and are documented separately below.

Residential Development Fees (per housing unit)

Residential Development Fees by Unit Type

Nonresidential Development Fees

Impact fee authority: City of Glendale, ARS 9-463.05 development fee program. The statutory framework requires adopted land use assumptions and an infrastructure improvements plan before development fees may be charged or increased; the operative basis document is the City's 2025 Development Impact Fee Study and Land Use Assumptions and Infrastructure Improvements Plan (final June 24, 2025).

Zoning and Planning Fees - Effective May 10, 2019

Source: City of Glendale Community Development Fee Schedule, effective May 10, 2019 (SHA-256 33b6a88b...), a 40-page consolidated schedule covering Building Safety, Engineering, Planning, Transportation Services, Fire Department Services, and Utility Services. It is the current fee schedule linked from the City's live Fee Schedule page. The planning amounts below are transcribed from the Planning Fees section. Acreage and per-lot surcharges apply on top of the base fee where shown.

Rezoning and General Plan Amendment Fees

Subdivision and Plat Fees

Entitlement, Variance and Design Review Fees

Building Permit and Plan Review Fees

Building permit fees for new buildings, additions, and pools are valuation-based, computed from Table 3A (Building Permit Fees) and Table 3B (Building Valuation Chart) in the Community Development Fee Schedule rather than a flat schedule. Building plan review is 75% of the building permit fee, with a minimum of $122.88. Builder cost therefore depends on the declared construction valuation. Zoning and planning fee authority: City of Glendale Community Development.

Water and Wastewater Development Fees - Effective September 8, 2025

Source: City of Glendale Development Impact Fee Schedule, effective September 8, 2025, revised June 24, 2026 (utility development fees), and the Community Development Fee Schedule, effective May 10, 2019 (Utility Services water meter fees). In Glendale, as in most Arizona municipalities, the water and wastewater development fees are the primary utility capacity charges - the ARS 9-463.05 charges assessed per meter at building permit issuance. The physical meter set is billed separately through the Utility Services water meter fees. Glendale operates its own municipal water and wastewater utility.

The service-area split is material to any West Valley pro forma: East Glendale carries the full per-meter utility development fee schedule, while West Glendale utility development fees are $0 at every meter size.

Utility Development Fees by Meter Size (all development types)

Water Meter Fees (physical meter set, Utility Services)

Accessory dwelling units are treated on a demand basis for water and wastewater: the impact fee is charged only where the ADU requires a meter upsize, and equals the difference between the existing and upsized meter impact fees. Upsizing a 0.75-inch meter to a 1-inch meter in East Glendale, for example, yields $11,898 minus $7,125, or $4,773. Where no meter upsize is required, the ADU water and wastewater impact fee is $0. Utility development fee authority: City of Glendale municipal water and wastewater utility. Note the two effective dates: the utility development fees are effective September 8, 2025, while the physical water meter fees are from the 2019 Community Development Fee Schedule.

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were not closed via confirmed standalone fee amounts on this page. They are disclosed here rather than estimated or omitted silently. These items remain under limited-coverage review until these gaps are closed.

Special District Fees (Community Facilities Districts / Improvement Districts)

Review of the City of Glendale Community Development Fee Schedule (all sections: Building Safety, Engineering, Planning, Transportation, Fire, Utility Services) and the Development Impact Fee Schedule found no developer-facing Community Facilities District (CFD) application fee, Improvement District fee, or other special-district formation fee levied by the City. Arizona CFDs are separate Title 48 taxing and financing districts, not development-fee administrators charging a City-levied application fee on the schedules reviewed. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction. Re-open if Glendale adopts a City-levied CFD or improvement-district application fee.

Proffers

Arizona jurisdictions do not use Virginia-style cash proffers (a Virginia conditional-zoning mechanism under VA Code 15.2-2303 / 2303.4 with no Arizona counterpart). Developer-side capital contributions in Glendale are captured through the ARS 9-463.05 development fee program - fire, library, police, streets, parks and recreation, water, and wastewater - documented above. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Building Safety Valuation Tables

Building permit fees are valuation-based per Table 3A (Building Permit Fees) and Table 3B (Building Valuation Chart) of the Community Development Fee Schedule. Those tables were not transcribed line by line for this record, and the Engineering, Transportation Services, and Fire Department Services sections of the same schedule are not enumerated here. Consult the source schedule for the complete valuation-based computation.

Fee Schedule Currency

The Community Development Fee Schedule is dated effective May 10, 2019 and is the current schedule linked from the City's live Fee Schedule page. Confirm with Community Development that no superseding schedule has been adopted before relying on the planning, subdivision, or water meter amounts.

Multi-Family and ADU Component Detail

The per-facility breakdown (fire, library, police, streets, parks and recreation) is captured above for single family units. Multi-family and accessory dwelling unit totals are captured, but the per-facility component split for those unit types is not enumerated on this page.

Fee Authorities

Explore other Arizona jurisdictions covered by ZoneFee: Arizona fee coverage hub. Nearby and comparable West Valley and Phoenix-metro records include Peoria (immediate northwest neighbor), Buckeye, Goodyear, and Surprise. For the closest ARS 9-463.05 impact and capacity fee structure comparison, see Queen Creek. Other Phoenix-metro records: Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Scottsdale. See also the ZoneFee coverage index and methodology.

Sources

Note: glendaleaz.gov is served through an OpenCities (Granicus) and Akamai front end that returns a JavaScript shell to simple fetchers and HTTP 403 to direct PDF byte downloads. The two official fee-schedule PDFs were captured through a real-browser, same-origin fetch of the City's own asset URLs, then parsed and SHA-256 hashed. Direct access should be re-tested when the site edge configuration changes.