Phoenix, Arizona - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Development Impact Fees by Service Area - Effective June 23, 2025

Source: City of Phoenix 2025 Development Impact Fee Update, "Development Impact and Water Resource Acquisition Fee Schedules - Net Assessments by Fee Category, Land Use, and Service Area (Effective 6-23-2025)", 3 pages (SHA-256 c7eadb73...). Adopted by City Council April 9, 2025 and applied to permits purchased on or after June 23, 2025. Fees are assessed under ARS 9-463.05 and Phoenix City Code Chapters 29 and 30.

How the Phoenix Fee-Area Structure Works

Phoenix assesses development impact fees across 15 service-area columns rather than one citywide rate. The fee areas are Northwest, Deer Valley, Northeast, and Paradise Ridge (Off-Project), plus Estrella North, Estrella South, Laveen East, Laveen West, Ahwatukee, and Balance of City, each with On-Project and Off-Project columns. Fees collected in a fee area fund only infrastructure benefiting that area, and amounts vary by land use and by development size or meter size. The Balance of City assesses $0 across all fee categories because it is not a development impact fee area. The full 15-column matrix does not fit a readable single table; the representative cross-section below is grouped by fee category, and the complete matrix is authoritative in the cited City schedule.

Fire Impact Fee

Police Impact Fee

Police impact fees are uniform across all fee areas except Balance of City, which assesses $0.

Wastewater Collection Capacity Charge (Northwest fee area)

Wastewater Collection amounts vary by fee area. For comparison, the Estrella South Off-Project single family unit up to 1.0 inch charge is $5,409 against the Northwest figure of $5,127 shown above.

Additional Fee Categories in the Same Schedule

The 2025 Development Impact Fee Update schedule also assesses Major Arterials and Storm Drainage (charged per acre), Wastewater Treatment, Water Transmission, and Water Treatment. Per-area amounts for these categories are in the cited City schedule and are not reproduced here. Impact fee authority: City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department (impactfees@phoenix.gov).

Site Planning and Subdivision Fees - Effective January 20, 2026

Source: City of Phoenix PDD Fee Schedule, approved December 17, 2025 per Ordinance G-7465, effective January 20, 2026, codified at Phoenix City Code Chapter 9, Appendix A.2, 56 pages (SHA-256 4193e742...). The schedule covers Site Planning, Site Plan Review, Environmental Plan Review and Permits, Subdivision and Property Division, Sign Fees, Civil Engineering (plan review, permits, inspection, right-of-way), and Building Safety fees. Representative developer-facing amounts are shown below.

Site Plan Conceptual and Base Review

Site Plan Review base fees are set by land use in Table C-1 of the PDD Fee Schedule, with a complexity surcharge applied per Table C-2. Those two tables are not reproduced here; consult the schedule directly for the applicable land-use base and surcharge.

Master Plan Review

Subdivision and Property Division

Sign, Civil Engineering, and Building Safety Fees

Sign fees, Civil Engineering fees (plan review, permits, right-of-way, inspection), and Building Safety fees are assessed per their own sections of the PDD Fee Schedule on a base-plus-quantity or valuation basis. They are not enumerated here and remain authoritative in the source schedule. Zoning and site planning fee authority: City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department.

Water Resource Acquisition Fees - Effective June 23, 2025

Source: City of Phoenix 2025 Development Impact Fee Update, Water Resource Acquisition schedule (SHA-256 c7eadb73...), effective June 23, 2025. Phoenix Water Services operates the municipal water and wastewater utility. The developer-side water capacity charge is the Water Resource Acquisition Fee, charged by meter size and applied uniformly across all Off-Project fee areas including Balance of City. On-Project columns assess $0.

Water Transmission, Water Treatment, Wastewater Collection, and Wastewater Treatment capacity charges are assessed in the same City schedule and are presented under the development impact fee section above. Utility fee authority: City of Phoenix Water Services Department.

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 Facilities Districts)

Phoenix Community Facilities Districts are Title 48 districts formed under the Arizona Community Facilities District Act of 1988. Per the City's own CFD program page, the Districts levy taxes and issue bonds independently of the City as separate political subdivisions under the Arizona Constitution, and CFD assessments appear under the Special District section of the Maricopa County property tax statement. The City levies no developer-facing CFD or Improvement District application fee: the 56-page PDD Fee Schedule contains no such line item, and the CFD program page publishes only formation documents (petitions, resolutions, ordinances, development agreements, annual financial reports) with no fee schedule. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction. Re-open if Phoenix adopts a City-levied CFD application fee.

Proffers

Arizona jurisdictions do not use Virginia-style cash proffers (a Virginia conditional-zoning mechanism under VA Code 15.2-2303 and 15.2-2303.4 with no Arizona counterpart). Developer-side capital contributions in Phoenix are captured through the ARS 9-463.05 development impact fee program and the Water Resource Acquisition Fees documented above. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Water Services Per-Connection Service Charges

The Water Services Development Finance Fees page enumerates per-connection service charges as fee TYPES without publishing amounts on that surface: Full Water Service Fee (Tap and Meter), Water Tap Only, Meter Only, Meter Relocation, Reduce Size of Meter, Fire Hydrant Meter, Firelines and Wet Tap, Construction Water Access, Shutdown, and Development Occupational Fees. These are billed at the service counter and sit outside the published capacity-fee schedule. No amounts are stated here because none are published on the City surface reviewed. Request a quote from Phoenix Water Services for these charges.

Site Plan Review Tables C-1 and C-2

Site Plan Review base fees (Table C-1, by land use) and the complexity surcharge (Table C-2) are not transcribed on this page. The base-plus-surcharge structure is stated above as published; the numeric tables remain authoritative in the PDD Fee Schedule.

Full 15-Column Service-Area Matrix

The impact fee tables above are a representative cross-section of the City's 15-column service-area matrix, grouped by fee category. Amounts for a specific parcel depend on its fee area and On-Project or Off-Project designation. Confirm the applicable fee area with the City before budgeting.

Fee Authorities

Compare with other Greater Phoenix jurisdictions covered by ZoneFee: Mesa, Scottsdale, Chandler, Peoria, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Buckeye, Goodyear, and Surprise. See the full Arizona fee coverage hub and ZoneFee's coverage index and methodology.

Sources

Note: phoenix.gov landing pages render their document links client-side, so a plain HTTP fetch of the Impact Fees or Development Finance Fees page returns HTTP 200 with no fee surface and no asset links. The canonical fee-schedule PDF URLs were harvested from a rendered browser session, then downloaded directly (HTTP 200, no WAF on the content/dam paths) and extracted and hashed from the PDF byte stream.