Royse City, Texas - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees

Source: City of Royse City Code of Ordinances, Ch. 10 Subdivision, Art. 10.03 Impact Fees, Div. 2. Royse City operates its own water and wastewater utility and levies water, wastewater, and roadway impact fees under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395. The roadway impact fee schedules were updated by Ordinance 24-01-1621 (adopted January 23, 2024); the program was adopted under Ordinance 07-04-563 (2007) with the land-use assumptions and capital improvements plan in Ordinance 07-03-562, and collection under Ordinance 21-05-1449 (2021).

The roadway impact fee is fully tabulated in the code: the assessment rate (Schedule 1, sec. 10.03.051) applies to plats on or after January 23, 2024 at a per-service-unit rate that varies by service area (a service unit is one p.m. peak-hour vehicle trip), and the collection rate (Schedule 2, sec. 10.03.052) is $1,000.00 per service unit for residential, with nonresidential collection per Ordinance 24-01-1621. Water and wastewater impact fees are levied per living-unit-equivalent (a 5/8 inch to 1 inch meter equals one living-unit-equivalent), but the per-meter dollar amounts are set in the capital improvements plan attached to Ordinance 07-03-562 and are not tabulated inside the codified text; developers should request the current adopted water and wastewater impact-fee amounts directly from the City. These capital-recovery impact fees are distinct from the utility's own water meter set and tap charges below.

Zoning and Plat Application Fees

Source: City of Royse City Code of Ordinances, Art. 1.05 Finances, sec. 1.05.083 (planning and zoning fees) plus plat and engineering-review fees. The figures below are captured verbatim from the codified fee schedule.

Authority: City of Royse City Development Services. The codified schedule also carries related development charges, including a verification letter, plat application and master-plat fees, drainage-study and traffic-impact-analysis fees, and per-day construction inspection; confirm any that apply to your submittal directly with the City.

Water and Sewer Tap Fees

Source: City of Royse City Code of Ordinances, Art. 1.05 Finances, sec. 1.05.062-063 (water meter set and water and sewer fees). Royse City operates its own water and wastewater utility. These one-time water meter set and tap charges are the utility's own new-connection costs and are distinct from the impact fees above.

Authority: City of Royse City Public Works Utility. These development-related connection charges are distinct from the City's monthly utility rate sheet, which carries recurring service rates and is not a development fee.

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

All three confirmed fee families derive from the codified fee schedule in the City's Municode Code of Ordinances, which is current through May 11, 2026. The Municode library is rendered dynamically and its content interface is session-gated, so the schedule is cited by its stable section identifiers rather than a fixed document snapshot. The amounts above were captured from that codified schedule; because a jurisdiction can amend its fee schedule between code consolidations, this page carries a standard currency caveat. Confirm the current amounts directly with the City before relying on them.

Water and wastewater impact fee - dollar schedule

Royse City levies water and wastewater impact fees per living-unit-equivalent under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395, but the per-meter dollar amounts are set in the capital improvements plan attached to Ordinance 07-03-562 and are not tabulated inside the codified text. The roadway impact fee is presented above with its full tabulated per-service-unit schedule. Developers assessing a water or wastewater impact fee should request the current adopted per-meter amounts directly from the City.

Special district fees

No special-district (public improvement district, municipal utility district, or planned unit development) dollar fee schedule appears in the code or on the city site. In Texas, public improvement district formation costs under Local Government Code Chapter 372 and municipal utility district formation costs under Water Code Chapter 54 are recovered through the district itself or a negotiated development agreement, not through a standardized per-application city fee. 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) and Chapter 395 (impact fees). Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

Fee Authorities

See also nearby Fate on the I-30 corridor in Rockwall County, and the impact fees guide for how Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 works.

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