Queen Anne's County, Maryland - Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees

Source: Queen Anne's County FY 2025 Impact Fees schedule (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025), published by the Department of Planning & Zoning / Department of Finance and index-adjusted annually under the County development impact-fee ordinance. The FY 2025 increase factor was 1.0, a 0% change from the prior year. The residential impact fee is assessed per square foot as three components (Public Schools, Fire, and Parks & Rec), with a percentage reduction depending on whether construction is inside or outside the designated Growth Area.

Residential Impact Fee (per square foot)

Growth-Area reductions apply to the residential impact fee: inside the designated Growth Area the fee is reduced 50%, and outside the Growth Area it is reduced 25%.

Non-Residential Impact Fee (total impact fee per square foot)

Authority: Queen Anne's County FY 2025 Impact Fees schedule, index-adjusted annually under the County development impact-fee ordinance. FY 2025 is the most recent annual impact-fee schedule the County has published (the schedule runs FY 2009 through FY 2025).

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were either closed by official-source review as not administered by the County, or could not be closed with a current fee amount traceable to a dated official source document. They are disclosed here rather than estimated, paraphrased from a non-official source, or omitted silently. These items remain under limited-coverage review until these gaps are closed from official sources.

Zoning and development application fees

Queen Anne's County publishes a current development impact-fee schedule (above), but the only general fee schedules linked from its Building Fees page are the 2008 and 2012 updates, which are building-permit fee schedules rather than a current land-use entitlement application fee schedule. A current schedule of rezoning, subdivision, site plan, variance, and Board of Appeals application fees was not located on the development-fee surfaces reviewed; those fees are likely set by County resolution or in the County Code. To avoid asserting stale 2008 or 2012 values as current, no current zoning or entitlement application figure is published on this page. Confirm current application fees directly with the Department of Planning & Zoning.

Water and sewer tap fees

Water and sewer service in Queen Anne's County is provided through the county sanitary districts (Kent Island and others) and the incorporated towns (Centreville, Queenstown, Sudlersville), each of which sets its own connection and tap fees. These are not published as a county-wide developer tap-fee schedule on the County's development-fee surfaces, so no county-wide tap-fee figure is published here. Closed-search outcome: utility tap fees are not administered at the county-development level.

Special district fees

Queen Anne's County sanitary districts are utility service areas funded through user charges and benefit assessments, not developer-phase application fees. No special-district developer application fee appears on the County's development-fee surfaces. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction.

Proffers

Maryland does not use Virginia-style cash proffers. Cash proffers are a Virginia conditional-zoning instrument (Virginia Code Section 15.2-2303.4); Maryland counties instead use development impact fees (as Queen Anne's County does) and Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Currency of the impact-fee schedule

The FY 2025 Impact Fees schedule (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025) is the most recent impact-fee schedule the County has posted; Queen Anne's County has not published an FY 2026 or FY 2027 schedule as of this review, so the figures above are the most recent official amounts on file. Because the schedule is index-adjusted annually, re-check the County's Building Fees page for a successor schedule before relying on these amounts.

Fee Authorities

Other Maryland counties covered by ZoneFee that levy development impact or excise fees: Howard County, Frederick County, Anne Arundel County, Calvert County. See also the impact fees guide for how development impact fees are calculated and applied.

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