Rockwall, Texas - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Zoning-Related Application Fees

Source: City of Rockwall Building Permit Fee Schedule (Building Inspections Department, 385 S. Goliad Street), section OTHER BUILDING PERMITS. Because the City's live origin was unreachable when this page was compiled, the amounts below are captured from the Internet Archive snapshot of that schedule dated May 20, 2024, whose content had been digest-stable since March 2022. The zoning-related application fees carried on that schedule are shown below.

Authority: City of Rockwall Planning and Zoning Department and Building Inspections. These are the zoning-related application fees carried on the archived Building Permit Fee Schedule. Separate zoning, planned development, specific use permit, plat, and site plan application fees are set on the City's Development Application form, which was not reachable from the live City website when this page was compiled; those amounts are not published here rather than estimated. Confirm the full current fee slate directly with the City of Rockwall.

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were either not published in the City's official development fee sources 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 (archived source)

The fee amounts on this page come from an archived copy of the City of Rockwall Building Permit Fee Schedule (an Internet Archive snapshot dated May 20, 2024, content unchanged since March 2022), because the City's live website was unreachable when this page was compiled. The archived schedule carries no printed effective date and cannot be reconfirmed as still in force. Treat these figures as the last-published version reachable, not a confirmed current schedule, and verify current amounts directly with the City of Rockwall before relying on them. This page is retained under limited-coverage review and is not indexed for search until a current, live City source can be re-captured.

Impact fees

The Rockwall City Code (Chapter 38, Subdivisions, Article III) does provide for subdivision impact fees, and the water and wastewater capital-recovery framework sits in the utilities chapter, but the adopted dollar amounts are not published in an accessible official fee schedule reachable from the live City site, and the codified rate tables were not extractable on this pass. Closed-search outcome: impact fee amounts not published via accessible official sources. This is a finding that no accessible published amount was found, not a positive determination of a zero impact fee.

Utility tap and connection fees

Rockwall operates its own water and wastewater utility, but the archived Building Permit Fee Schedule carries only building and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing permit fees and an irrigation building permit, with no water or sewer tap or meter-set connection amounts. Closed-search outcome: not published via accessible official sources at this time.

Special district fees

In Texas, Public Improvement District assessments (Local Government Code Chapter 372) and Municipal Utility District charges (Water Code Chapter 54) are levied by the district itself, not through the City fee schedule. No city-administered special-district line item is expected on the Rockwall municipal fee schedule. Closed-search outcome: 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) 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. Nearby covered jurisdictions in the northeast metroplex include Royse City (same Rockwall County), Heath, Fate, Rowlett, and Mesquite.

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