Coppell, Texas - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees

Source: City of Coppell Master Fee Schedule, Chapter 17 of the Coppell City Code (Sec. 17-2-03 Water Facility Fees, Sec. 17-3-03 Sanitary Sewer Facility Fees, Sec. 17-4-03 Roadway Facility Fees). Coppell levies water facility, sanitary sewer (wastewater) facility, and roadway facility impact fees under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395, each assessed per service unit and scaled by water-meter size (E.S.U. factors per AWWA Standard C701). The city collects the maximum assessed rate, so the Schedule 2 assessed amount equals the Schedule 1 maximum for every meter size.

A service unit represents the demand of one standard land use, with the water and wastewater facility fees scaled by water-meter size using E.S.U. factors from AWWA Standard C701. The amounts above are representative rows from a longer meter-size schedule that extends through 12 inch meters (for example, the 12 inch turbine water facility fee is $292,113.43 and the 12 inch turbine wastewater facility fee is $98,079.25); the full table is set out in the Master Fee Schedule. The roadway facility impact fee applies across a single service area (Service Area 1) at $177.50 per service unit. These Chapter 17 impact fees are separate from and additional to the one-time tap-inspection and meter fees below.

Zoning and Plat Application Fees

Source: City of Coppell Master Fee Schedule (Chapter 12 Zoning, Chapter 13 Subdivision Regulations, Chapter 15 Buildings), corroborated line-for-line by the City's current Permit Fee Schedule. The application fees below are captured verbatim from the adopted schedule.

Authority: City of Coppell Development Services / Planning. The fees above confirm the zoning and platting fee family for this jurisdiction. The full Chapter 12 schedule carries additional line items not itemized on this page (for example, a minor PD amendment for an existing non-residential use, secondary/minor plats not administratively approved, an Estate District plat rate, and administrative approval of a minor site plan amendment); developers should confirm those application fees directly with the City.

Water and Sewer Tap Fees

Source: City of Coppell Master Fee Schedule, Sec. 3-1-15 (Tapping City Water Mains) and Sec. 3-2-4 (Tapping City Sewer Mains). Coppell operates its own water and wastewater utility and structures its one-time connection charge as a tap-inspection fee scaled by service-line size and inspection hours (base cost / after-hours cost), plus a water meter fee. These one-time charges are distinct from the Chapter 17 impact fees above and from monthly water and sewer rates.

Authority: City of Coppell Utilities (water and wastewater). Because the water meter fee is charged at the cost of the meter plus a 5% administrative fee, the meter portion of a new connection varies with meter size. The tap-inspection amounts above are the base cost and the after-hours cost for each service-line size. Service deposits and monthly volumetric utility rates are billing charges, not development fees, and are excluded here.

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were either not itemized in full on this page or are not administered by this jurisdiction. They are disclosed here rather than estimated, paraphrased from a non-official source, or omitted silently. These items remain under limited-coverage review until any remaining gaps are closed from official sources.

Currency caveat - no printed effective date

The impact, zoning, plat, and utility tap fees on this page derive from the City of Coppell Master Fee Schedule, corroborated on the zoning, plat, and building sections by the City's current Permit Fee Schedule. The operative schedule is filed as "Master-Fees-2023" and carries no standalone printed adoption or effective date; its most recent embedded section is the water-rate section effective February 1, 2024. No standalone impact-fee-schedule adoption resolution number or date is printed on the document. Confirm the current schedule and current amounts directly with the City before relying on them.

Impact-fee table depth

The impact-fee table on this page shows representative meter-size rows (5/8" x 3/4", 1", and 2" for water; 5/8" x 3/4" and 1" for wastewater; and Service Area 1 for roadway). The full water and wastewater facility-fee schedule scales by meter size and extends through 12 inch meters in the Master Fee Schedule. Developers sizing a connection above the rows shown should request the full meter-size schedule directly from the City.

Additional zoning and platting line items

The fees shown confirm the zoning and platting fee family for Coppell. The full Chapter 12 schedule includes additional line items not itemized on this page, such as a minor PD amendment for an existing non-residential use, secondary/minor plats that are not administratively approved, an Estate District plat rate, and administrative approval of a minor site plan amendment. These remain available in the Master Fee Schedule and are not reproduced in full here.

Special district fees

No special-district (public improvement district or municipal utility district) fee line item appears as a City of Coppell fee. In Texas, public improvement district assessments under Local Government Code Chapter 372 and municipal utility district assessments under Water Code Chapter 54 are levied by the district itself, not through the city fee schedule. The Cypress Waters mixed-use area straddles the Coppell/Dallas boundary, but any district assessment there is administered by the district, not billed on Coppell's schedule. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction.

Proffers

Cash proffers are a Virginia statutory instrument under Virginia Code Section 15.2-2303.4 with no Texas counterpart. Texas exactions run through Local Government Code Chapter 212 (subdivision and development), Chapter 245, and Chapter 395 (impact fees). Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Fee Authorities

See the impact fees guide for how Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 works, and the Texas hub for other jurisdictions covered by ZoneFee.

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