What it costs in government fees to build, by jurisdiction

Impact fees, water and sewer connection charges, and building permits — assembled into one comparable number per county, from the adopted ordinance or published schedule itself. Every figure carries its effective date and a link to the source.

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Published counties — Florida

CountyTotal feesRange
Osceola County Water and sewer: Toho Water Authority $49,825 $47,479
–$57,025
Manatee County Water and sewer: Manatee County Utilities $40,017 $39,642
–$42,513
Collier County Water and sewer: Collier County Water-Sewer District $39,676 $39,286
–$40,690
St. Johns County Water and sewer: St. Johns County Utility Department $34,294 $33,139
–$36,544
Pasco County Water and sewer: Pasco County Utilities $32,776 $29,099
–$34,884
Hillsborough County Water and sewer: Hillsborough County Water Resources $32,631 $29,603
–$36,486
Orange County Water and sewer: Orange County Utilities $31,904 $31,904
–$38,850
Polk County Water and sewer: Polk County Utilities $29,959 $29,301
–$32,044
Sarasota County Water and sewer: Sarasota County Public Utilities $23,698 $22,330
–$25,322
Seminole County Water and sewer: Seminole County Utilities $22,158 $15,952
–$26,757
Lee County Water and sewer: Lee County Utilities $18,237 $17,796
–$22,397
Lake County Water and sewer: None — Lake County operates no water or sewer utility $17,998 $15,328
–$18,426
Volusia County Water and sewer: Well and septic (Volusia County Utilities serves only five small named areas) $17,909 $16,974
–$24,787
Brevard County Water and sewer: Brevard County Utility Services $15,602 +* $15,602
–$24,209

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Published counties — Colorado

CountyTotal feesRange
Larimer County Water and sewer: East Larimer County Water District (ELCO) $85,905 $20,662
–$130,763
Douglas County Water and sewer: Dominion Water & Sanitation District $55,528 $55,528
–$67,602
El Paso County Water and sewer: Widefield Water & Sanitation District $31,089 $8,276
–$52,885
Weld County Water and sewer: Little Thompson Water District $30,158 $12,658
–$135,958

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+* Total is a verified floor — the county does not publish one required fee. The page explains exactly which, and how to obtain it.

The two states do not work the same way, and that is the point

In Florida the county sets most of the price: impact fees are county ordinances and the county usually runs the utility. In Colorado the county is nearly irrelevant — the tap is 63–89% of every stack we modeled and it is charged by an independent Title 32 special district with its own elected board. Douglas County's own fees total $6,058 against a $49,470 district tap. Weld County spans $12,658 to $135,958 for the identical house — but on different lots, because the district assigns tap class by lot size and use, and because whether the developer already dedicated raw water rights moves one tap class by 3.1× on its own. A national dataset that treats "the jurisdiction" as the unit of analysis gets Colorado wrong by an order of magnitude; one that treats the county as the unit gets the lot-level variance wrong on top of that.

Why you'd pay for numbers a county publishes for free

Because getting them right takes 11 to 25 documents per county, and every county in this set had at least one trap that produces a confidently wrong figure:

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