Mesa, Arizona - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees (ARS 9-463.05)

Source: City of Mesa Development Impact Fee Report, preliminary fiscal year end June 30, 2026 (SHA-256 30fc1492...; 88,979 bytes), page 2: CITY OF MESA IMPACT FEE SCHEDULE 6/30/2026. Impact fees are authorized under ARS 9-463.05 and codified in Mesa City Code Title 5 Chapter 17 (DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES). The schedule lists Public Safety impact fees only; 6/30/2026 is the report schedule date, not an adoption date, and the amounts are unchanged from the 6/30/2025 schedule. The City's capacity fee FAQ states that the wastewater impact fee ended in June 2023 and the water impact fee ended in December 2024, and that Public Safety is the only remaining Mesa impact fee. Water and wastewater capacity is now charged through the capacity fees in the utility section. No Fire impact fee appears in the current schedule.

Public Safety Impact Fees

Impact fee authority: City of Mesa, Office of Management and Budget. Fees authorized under ARS 9-463.05 and codified in Mesa City Code Title 5 Chapter 17 (amended by Ord. Nos. 1471, 1790, 1838, 2100, 2241, 2356, 2596, 2658, 2786, 2909, 3003, 3041, 3100, 4706, 5071, 5189). Annual Impact Fee Report submitted to the State per ARS 9-463.05(G). Pledged Debt Analysis for Continuation of Impact Fees (Duncan Associates, April 2013) authorized continuation of several impact fee categories until pledged debt was repaid; of these, only the Public Safety impact fee remains on the current schedule.

Building Permit and Development Services Fees

Source: City of Mesa Schedule of Fees and Charges - Development Services (v7, Updated for July 2026; SHA-256 47595808...; 442,922 bytes), extracted verbatim. Amounts are plus Transaction Privilege (Sales) Tax where applicable. Fees authorized under Mesa City Code Section 4-1-8. A technology improvement fee of 4% of all permit and service fees (maximum $800 per permit or service fee transaction) is added to all permit fees listed below.

Residential Building Permit Fees

Commercial Building Permit Fees

Civil Engineering and Other Development Services Fees

Building permit and development services fee authority: City of Mesa Development Services Department.

Planning and Zoning Application Fees

Source: City of Mesa Schedule of Fees and Charges - Planning (v6, Updated for July 2026; SHA-256 df45411d...; 138,742 bytes), extracted verbatim; the zoning verification letter is from the Development Services schedule. Planning application fees are administered by the City of Mesa Planning Division within Development Services. Amounts are plus Transaction Privilege (Sales) Tax where applicable.

Zoning Verification and Pre-Application Fees

Rezoning and Annexation Application Fees

Site Plan Review and Design Review Fees

Plat and Subdivision Fees

General Plan Amendment, Special Use Permit, and Variance Fees

Planning application fee authority: City of Mesa Planning Division (Development Services Department).

Utility Connection and Meter Fees

Source: City of Mesa Utility Service Fee Schedule (Ordinance No. 5902, effective February 1, 2025, supersedes schedule effective February 1, 2024), as published in the City of Mesa Utility Rates book (v21; SHA-256 eb4aa1dc...; 2,632,749 bytes; unchanged when re-checked 2026-11-04); Section II Land Management, Item 5 Water, extracted verbatim. These are physical meter installation charges. Water and wastewater system capacity is recovered through the Water and Wastewater Capacity Fee (Mesa City Code 8-10-13, Ordinance No. 5970, effective January 1, 2026) below. Mesa no longer charges water or wastewater impact fees.

Water Meter Installation Fees (Ordinance No. 5902, eff. February 1, 2025)

Water and Wastewater Capacity Fees (Ord. 5970, MCC 8-10-13, effective January 1, 2026)

City of Mesa Ordinance No. 5970 (adopted December 1, 2025; effective January 1, 2026) established the Water and Wastewater Capacity Fee under ARS 9-511 and 9-511.01, separate from impact fees under ARS 9-463.05. It applies to building permit applications filed on or after January 1, 2026 that request a new or upsized water meter, and is paid before the meter is set. Upsizing pays only the difference between meter sizes, and irrigation-only meters are exempt from the wastewater portion. For 0.75-inch and 1-inch meters a 50% phase-in applied to complete applications filed through June 30, 2026; that discount has ended and the full amounts below apply to applications filed on or after July 1, 2026. Amounts are from Ordinance No. 5970 Table 1 as attached to the City Council agenda item (Legistar matter 25-0998, an unsigned copy); the same amounts appear in Table 8 of the City's Capacity Fees Study, and the City's capacity fee page confirms the adoption and effective dates. The water impact fee ended in December 2024 and was replaced by these capacity fees.

Utility connection fee authority: City of Mesa Utilities Department and Office of Management and Budget.

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.

Special District Fees (Community Facility Districts)

Mesa has active Community Facility Districts (CFDs) - including Eastmark CFD No. 1, Cadence CFD, and others - which are assessment-based financing mechanisms used by developers to fund infrastructure (parks, roads, water, sewer, street lights, landscaping) in specific development projects. However, these are district-level assessment mechanisms on property owners within the district boundary, not city-administered developer application fees assessed at the time of permit or approval. No city-levied CFD developer application fee schedule surfaced in the Development Services fees PDF, Planning fees PDF, or Citywide Schedule of Fees and Charges. CFDs in Arizona are formed by petition under ARS Title 48 Chapter 4 (Community Facilities District law) and administer their own assessments independently of the City fee schedule. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by the City of Mesa as a city-levied developer application fee.

Proffers

Arizona jurisdictions do not use cash proffers (a Virginia conditional-zoning mechanism codified under Virginia Code Section 15.2-2303/2303.4; it has no Arizona counterpart). Developer-side capital contributions in Mesa occur through the impact fees (ARS 9-463.05), the Water and Wastewater Capacity Fees (ARS 9-511/9-511.01, Ord. 5970), and the platting, zoning, site plan, building permit, and utility connection fees captured above. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

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