Tomball, Texas - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees

Source: City of Tomball Master Fee Schedule FY 2025-2026 (effective November 18, 2025), Water and Wastewater Impact Fees and Drainage Impact Fees. Tomball operates its own municipal water and wastewater utilities and levies water and wastewater impact fees under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395, scaled by water meter size and Living Unit Equivalents (LUEs). The City also charges Drainage Impact Fees per acre by drainage basin.

The water and wastewater impact fees are capital-recovery fees keyed to the water meter size and living unit equivalent; the combined total at a standard 5/8-inch residential meter (1.0 LUE) is $14,687. This is a full, city-administered Chapter 395 impact fee schedule - a contrast to the municipal-utility-district-financed peers common in the Houston metro. The Drainage Impact Fees are assessed per acre according to the development's drainage basin. These impact fees are distinct from the utility tap charges below.

Zoning and Plat Application Fees

Source: City of Tomball Master Fee Schedule FY 2025-2026 (effective November 18, 2025), Development Permits, Inspections and Fees (Plat Fees and Planning Fees). The zoning, variance, and plat application fees below are captured from that schedule.

Authority: City of Tomball Community Development (Planning, Building, Engineering). The fees above confirm the zoning and platting fee family for this jurisdiction. Plat fees are capped at $2,500 regardless of lot count, and the civil plan review fee is charged per acre with a $225 minimum.

Water, Sewer, and Gas Tap Fees

Source: City of Tomball Master Fee Schedule FY 2025-2026 (effective November 18, 2025), Water Tap Fees, Wastewater (Sewer) Tap Fees, and Natural Gas Tap Fees. Tomball runs its own municipal water, sewer, and natural gas utilities. The tap and meter charges below are separate from the Chapter 395 impact fees above; a new connection pays both.

Authority: City of Tomball Public Works (Utilities). The City will not install water taps larger than 2 inches or sewer taps larger than 6 inches; larger taps are the applicant's responsibility. Boring fees are also listed on the schedule for taps requiring bores. Monthly water, sewer, and gas service rates and volumetric charges are recurring billing charges, not development fees, and are excluded here.

Special District (PID) Fees

Source: City of Tomball Master Fee Schedule FY 2025-2026 (effective November 18, 2025), Public Improvement District Fees.

Authority: City of Tomball. This is the one-time, city-collected PID petition and application fee. Ongoing Public Improvement District assessments under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 372, and any Harris or Montgomery County municipal utility district assessments under Water Code Chapters 54 and 49, are levied and collected in connection with the district itself, not through the City fee schedule. Only the PID application fee is a city-administered line item.

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 levied outside the City fee schedule. 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

The impact fees, drainage impact fees, zoning and plat application fees, utility tap fees, and PID application fee on this page derive from the City of Tomball Master Fee Schedule for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 (effective November 18, 2025). Fee schedules change. Confirm current amounts directly with the City of Tomball before relying on them.

Impact fee ladder scope

The water and wastewater impact fee amounts above show representative meter sizes and living unit equivalents from the full ladder; the schedule lists additional intermediate meter sizes. Drainage impact fees are shown for the four listed basins. Developers with an unlisted meter size or a project in a different drainage basin should confirm the applicable amounts directly with the City.

PID and MUD assessment scope

The special-district fee confirmed on this page is the City's one-time Public Improvement District application fee ($2,500, nonrefundable, at petition submission). Ongoing PID assessments (Local Government Code Chapter 372) and any county municipal utility district assessments (Water Code Chapters 54 and 49) are levied and collected in connection with the district, not through the City fee schedule, and are outside the scope of the City-administered fee families reported here.

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); Tomball's water and wastewater impact fees sit under Chapter 395. 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 include Houston, Conroe, Sugar Land, and Fulshear.

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