Queen Creek, Arizona - Town Development Fees

Fee Summary

Development Impact Fees - Effective May 12, 2025

Source: Town of Queen Creek Development Fee Schedule, effective May 12, 2025 (non-utility development impact fees: Parks Facilities, Trails, Police Facilities, Street Facilities, Fire Facilities), approved by Town Council February 5, 2025 (SHA-256 2dc81e2e..., Wayback Machine snapshot 2025-10-09). Queen Creek administers development impact fees pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes Section 9-463.05 across five non-utility categories. The February 2025 Council action was a net reduction to residential fees based on updated 10-year growth projections and proportionate-share analysis. Water and sewer capacity fees are the utility-side ARS 9-463.05 charges and are documented separately below.

Residential Impact Fees (per unit)

Nonresidential Impact Fees (per 1,000 sq ft)

Impact fee authority: Town of Queen Creek Development Services / Finance. Framework: ARS 9-463.05, which requires adopted land use assumptions and an Infrastructure Improvement Plan before development impact fees may be charged or increased. The same schedule is corroborated in the combined Capacity Fee and Development Fee Schedule effective January 5, 2026.

Water and Sewer Capacity Fees - Effective January 5, 2026

Source: Town of Queen Creek Capacity Fee Schedule, effective January 5, 2026 (wastewater capacity fee increase approved December 3, 2025). In Queen Creek, as in most Arizona municipalities, the water and sewer (wastewater) capacity fees are the primary utility connection charges - the ARS 9-463.05 capacity charges collected at the time of building permit issuance, in addition to physical meter installation fees. Capacity fees scale by water meter size from 3/4-inch to 10-inch. Sewer capacity fees differ for residential versus non-residential at the 1-inch meter size.

Capacity Fees by Water Meter Size

Multi-family units are assessed a sewer capacity fee of $4,608 per unit. Water and wastewater capacity fees are collected at the time of building permit issuance and are in addition to meter installation fees. Utility capacity fee authority: Town of Queen Creek Utilities / Finance. Framework: ARS 9-463.05.

Zoning and Development Services Fees - Valuation Data Effective April 1, 2026

Source: Town of Queen Creek Development Services Fee Schedule (valuation data updated - effective April 1, 2026); sections cover Engineering, Planning, Building Safety, Fire Prevention, Construction Monitoring Fees, and the Valuation Table. Representative planning, engineering, and plat application amounts are shown below. Note: third and subsequent engineering review submittals are billed at 15% of the original Engineering Plan Review Fee, and separate subdivision recording fees are charged by the Maricopa County Recorder's Office (the Town collects both).

Engineering Plan Review Fees

Technical Study Review Fees

Planning Administrative Fees

Construction Permit and Plan Review Fees

Construction permit and plan review fees are valuation-based, computed from the Valuation Data Table in the Development Services Fee Schedule (valuation data updated effective April 1, 2026), rather than a flat schedule. Builder cost therefore depends on the declared construction valuation. Building Safety valuation tables and Construction Monitoring Fees are not exhaustively enumerated here and remain authoritative in the source schedule.

Zoning and development services fee authority: Town of Queen Creek Development 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. These items remain under limited-coverage review until these gaps are closed.

Special District Fees (Community Facilities Districts / Improvement Districts)

Review of the Town of Queen Creek Development Services Fee Schedule, Capacity Fee Schedule, and 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 Town. Arizona CFDs are separate Title 48 taxing and financing districts, not development-fee administrators charging a Town-levied application fee on the schedules reviewed. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction. Re-open if Queen Creek establishes a Town-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 Queen Creek are captured through the ARS 9-463.05 development impact fee program and utility capacity fees documented above. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Building Safety Valuation Tables and Construction Monitoring Fees

Construction permit and plan review fees are valuation-based per the Valuation Data Table (updated effective April 1, 2026). Representative planning, engineering, and plat amounts are captured above, but the full Building Safety valuation tables and Construction Monitoring Fees were not exhaustively transcribed for this record. Consult the Development Services Fee Schedule for the complete valuation-based computation.

Jurisdiction Boundary Note

Queen Creek straddles Maricopa County (primary) and Pinal County; the Pinal County portion boundary was not separately mapped for this record. The fee schedules above are the Town-wide schedules.

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Sources

Note: queencreekaz.gov is served through an Akamai EdgeSuite CDN that returns HTTP 403 to non-browser fetchers, headless browsers, and direct PDF downloads. The three official fee-schedule PDFs were captured via a headed browser render of the Town's own showpublisheddocument endpoints; the impact fee schedule was additionally retrieved and SHA-256 hashed from a Wayback Machine snapshot. Content hashes for the Capacity Fee Schedule (document 40782) and Development Services Fee Schedule (document 40807) are pending because the origin CDN blocks byte download and Wayback save-page-now returned HTTP 520; amounts are verbatim from the rendered documents. Direct access should be re-tested when the site WAF configuration changes.