Terms of Use

Use of ZoneFee

ZoneFee is a research website that publishes jurisdiction fee data - development impact fees, zoning application fees, utility tap and connection fees, and proffer schedules - gathered from official government sources. The site is provided for informational reference only.

ZoneFee is not a substitute for direct verification with the relevant jurisdiction. Specifically, nothing on ZoneFee is, or should be relied on as:

• legal advice on entitlement strategy, zoning interpretation, vested rights, or land-use litigation;
• financial or underwriting advice, return projections, or pro forma outputs;
• engineering, planning, or environmental advice;
• tax advice;
• a binding fee determination or official quote.

Use ZoneFee as a starting point for your own due diligence, not as the final word.

Acceptance

By using ZoneFee, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. ZoneFee may update these terms by editing this page and changing the Last Updated date below; continued use after a change indicates acceptance of the updated terms. Material changes will be summarized in plain language at the top of this section in the update that introduces them.

Data Accuracy and Currency

Fee schedules change. Jurisdictions adopt new rates, repeal programs, restructure fee categories, change effective dates, and revise codes. The data on ZoneFee reflects what official sources published as of the last review date shown on each page. It does not necessarily reflect the current effective rate.

ZoneFee makes a good-faith effort to source fees from official .gov documents and to mark each record with a Last Verified date. ZoneFee does not guarantee that any number on the site is current, complete, or applicable to your specific project. You are responsible for verifying binding fee amounts directly with the relevant city, county, water authority, special district, or utility provider before relying on a number for a financial, contractual, or compliance decision.

If you find data that appears outdated or incorrect, see the contact page for the correction submission process.

Permitted Use

You may:

• read, search, and reference ZoneFee for research and due diligence purposes;
• copy a small number of fee figures into your own analysis with attribution to ZoneFee and a link to the source page;
• share ZoneFee links with colleagues, clients, or counterparties in the normal course of professional work;
• print individual pages for personal or internal team reference.

These uses are permitted without a separate license. They do not transfer ownership of the underlying compilation, design, or text of ZoneFee.

Prohibited Use

You may not:

• scrape ZoneFee in bulk, including via automated tools, headless browsers, or scripted page-fetching, for the purpose of building a competing dataset, training a commercial model on the compiled data, or redistributing the data as your own;
• mirror, frame, or proxy ZoneFee on another website or service;
• republish ZoneFee data as a paid product, an API, or a bundled feature of a commercial offering without prior written permission;
• misrepresent ZoneFee's data as binding, official, or sourced from a government agency directly when the data was retrieved through ZoneFee;
• use ZoneFee in a way that materially impairs the site's availability for other users.

Light, polite automated access for legitimate research (such as a small-scale academic crawl that respects robots.txt and reasonable rate limits) is not prohibited; mass scraping is.

Limitation of Liability

ZoneFee is provided "as is" and "as available." ZoneFee makes no warranty, express or implied, that the data on the site is accurate, complete, current, or fit for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, ZoneFee disclaims liability for any loss, cost, damage, or business decision arising out of or related to your use of the site or your reliance on any information found on it. You are responsible for confirming any number with the relevant jurisdiction before acting on it.

This clause is written in plain language. ZoneFee does not, in this document, identify a particular state's law as governing, set a specific dollar liability cap, or require any particular forum for disputes. Those are formal legal commitments that depend on the operator's legal entity and have been deferred for separate review by counsel.

Questions About These Terms

For questions about these terms, email contact@zonefee.com. See the contact page for what to include in a message and the data use disclaimer for the practical limits of ZoneFee's fee data.