Colorado Springs, Colorado - City Development Fees

Fee Summary

Impact Fees and Construction Use Tax

Source: City of Colorado Springs Land Use Review Development Charges and Fees multi-family overview, 2023 (SHA-256 5cef63d1...), captured verbatim, with the program structure confirmed by City Code Section 7.5.532 Citywide Development Impact Fees as codified by American Legal Publishing (current through 2026 S-20; SHA-256 4ea27d4a...). Colorado authorizes local development impact fees under C.R.S. Section 29-20-104.5. Citywide Development Impact (CDI) fees for Police and Fire capital expansion are effective January 1, 2023 and are due at building permit. CDI amounts are recalculated annually by the Mayor using the Producer Price Index for New School Building Construction; the 2026 adjustment was completed by Administrative Regulation 2025-08. The amounts below are the 2023 base rates from the official multi-family fee overview.

Community Development Impact (CDI) Fees

School, Park, and Other Impact Fees

CDI fees apply to all new development, redevelopment, and annexation, and are paid at building permit. School, park, and engineering review fees are additional separate charges. The City construction use tax of 3.07% applies city-wide on construction materials; an El Paso County use tax of 1.23% applies in addition. Authority: City of Colorado Springs Planning Department / Land Use Review Division under City Code Section 7.5.532 (Chapter 7 UDC, Article 5, Part 5).

Zoning, Plat, and Development Application Review Fees

Source: City of Colorado Springs 2017 Development Application Review Fee Schedule, effective February 1, 2017 (Engineering Development Review / EDR fees; SHA-256 f8181e4f...), captured verbatim, supplemented by the 2023 Land Use Review multi-family fee overview (SHA-256 5cef63d1...) for plat administration, recording, public notice, and landscape review fees.

Engineering Development Review (EDR) Fees (2017 Schedule)

Plat, Recording, and Review Fees (2023 Multi-Family Overview)

Authority: City of Colorado Springs Planning Department / Land Use Review Division (application and plat review fees) and City Engineering / Engineering Development Review (EDR). Development application review in Colorado Springs is split between Planning Department LUR fees, Engineering Development Review (EDR) fees, Fire Department review, and CSU Development Services review.

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were not closed on this page with a fee amount traceable to a hashed official source document 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 these gaps are closed from official, hash-captured sources.

Utility tap / water and wastewater connection charges (Colorado Springs Utilities)

Water and wastewater (and electric and natural gas) development charges in Colorado Springs are administered by Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), the City's separate municipal enterprise utility - not by the City Planning or Engineering departments. CSU publishes a development charges document at csu.org; the coloradosprings.gov current-fee-schedules page links to that CSU document as the utility development charges reference. Because this fee family is not administered by the City planning department, ZoneFee does not present any CSU amounts on this City master page. For current water and wastewater development charges, consult Colorado Springs Utilities (csu.org). Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction.

2017 development application review schedule currency

The Engineering Development Review (EDR) fees on this page are drawn from the 2017 Development Application Review Fee Schedule (effective February 1, 2017). The City has since adopted a Land Development Fee Schedule (2024, rev. April 21, 2025) and a Development Review Enterprise Fee Schedule (effective January 1, 2026, Resolution No. 191-25). Those current schedules are published on the city's fee schedule page but are behind a private file system and were not captured this pass. Verify the current schedule at coloradosprings.gov/current-fee-schedules.

2026 CDI fee amounts

The CDI Police and Fire amounts shown are the 2023 base rates from the official multi-family fee overview. CDI fees are recalculated annually; the 2026 adjustment was completed by Administrative Regulation 2025-08, which was not captured this pass. Verify current CDI amounts with the City of Colorado Springs.

Pikes Peak Regional Building Department permit fees

Building permit fees for Colorado Springs are collected by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department (PPRBD), a separate regional body serving the Pikes Peak region, at permit issuance. PPRBD's fee schedule was not captured on this City master and is the proper home for those building permit and plan check fees (pprbd.org).

Special District Fees (Metro Districts)

Metropolitan districts are common in Colorado Springs new development areas and may levy significant one-time fees or assessments at building permit or final plat recordation, as well as ongoing property tax levies. These are assessed by the individual metro districts themselves, not by the City of Colorado Springs, and are not published in the city's fee schedule. Closed-search outcome: this fee family is not administered by this jurisdiction.

Proffers

Colorado does not use Virginia-style cash proffers (a conditional-zoning mechanism under Virginia Code Sections 15.2-2303 and 15.2-2303.4 with no Colorado counterpart). Developer capital contributions in Colorado Springs occur through impact fees (CDI, school, park), development application and review fees, and utility development charges. Closed-search outcome: this fee family does not apply to this jurisdiction.

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