Frederick County, Maryland - County Development Fees

Fee Summary

Public School and Library Impact Fees - FY26 Schedule

Statutory authority: Section 9J of Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (state enabling); Frederick County Development Impact Fee Ordinance (originally effective July 1, 1993; Library Impact Fees added January 1, 2001); County Code Section 1-22 (administration); Section 1-22-3(E)(2) (no-net-increase-in-dwelling-units exemption). The Ordinance applies countywide including within each incorporated municipality. Mobile Homes are considered Single Family Detached. Impact fees must be paid prior to issuance of a building permit or zoning certificate. Administered by: Frederick County Division of Permits and Inspections (collection); Division of Planning and Permitting (program administration).

FY26 Public School Impact Fee (Effective July 1, 2025)

FY26 Library Impact Fee (Effective July 1, 2025)

Total FY26 Statutory Impact Fee (Public School + Library)

Source: Frederick County Maryland Department of Permits and Inspections, Current Impact Fees, July 1, 2025 (1-page official PDF, SHA-256 385dc5c2..., text-extractable via pdfplumber Stage 4). Statutory authority and administrative policy corroborated by the Application of Section 1-22-3(E)(2) of the County Code Related to Impact Fees policy approved 2024-09-12 (2-page PDF, SHA-256 9281b358...).

Coverage Notes - What This Page Does Not Cover

Per ZoneFee's Partial-Verified Publication Standard, the items below were not closed via verified primary sources during the 2026-05-08 verification pass. They are disclosed here rather than estimated or omitted silently.

FY26 Zoning, Subdivision, Site Development, and Building Permit Fees (DPP Fee Schedule)

The canonical FY26 Fee Schedule PDF is published on the Division of Permits and Inspections Permitting Fees landing (frederickcountymd.gov/7998/Permitting-Fees) and lives at /DocumentCenter/View/356339/FY26-Fee-Schedule (33 pages, 4.6 MB, SHA-256 651ba243ee34e5f9ab47cd0ad688a88169d276faf7bc72b1b28b79d4a2787562, accessed 2026-05-08). 32 of 33 pages are image-encoded or use CID-font encoding; pdfplumber and pdftotext both extract 0 characters from those pages. Only page 15 (electrical permits) yielded an incidental Zoning review fee $56.00. OCR fallback (pytesseract + pdf2image + Tesseract + Poppler) is not installed in the ZoneFee verification environment; the OCR helper exits NOT AVAILABLE. Substitute paths probed: /7998/Permitting-Fees, /8057/Applications-and-Fees, /8497/Planning-and-Permitting, /7949/Zoning, /8000/Building-Permits-Zoning-Certificates, /sitemap.xml. Per the ZoneFee Substitute Official Source Policy, the canonical document exists and is officially published; its CONTENT is gated behind an OCR pass. Closed-search outcome: unavailable_via_official_sources pending OCR install. Future pass: install OCR tooling, run scripts/ocr_extract.py, capture verbatim per-category zoning, subdivision, site-development, building-permit, plumbing, and mechanical permit dollar amounts.

Utility Tap Fees

Frederick County Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management administers public water and sewer in unincorporated areas, separately from the Department of Permits and Inspections fee namespace. Incorporated municipalities (Frederick City, Brunswick, Thurmont, Walkersville, Mt. Airy, Emmitsburg, Middletown, Myersville, New Market, Rosemont, Woodsboro) have independent utility-fee regimes. Following the Howard County and Montgomery County precedents, tap and connection charges are not in the DPP / Planning namespace. Future Lane E authority record creation pending at frederickcountymd.gov/utilities or equivalent. Closed-search outcome: not_administered_by_this_jurisdiction.

Proffers

Maryland jurisdictions do not use Virginia-style cash proffers. Va. Code Section 15.2-2303 has no Maryland counterpart. Maryland substitutes Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO) mitigation and statutory development impact fees per Article 25 Section 9J of the Annotated Code of Maryland. Same closure as Howard County MD and Montgomery County MD. Closed-search outcome: fee_family_does_not_apply.

APFO Transportation Impact Tax / Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Mitigation

Frederick County's APFO is administered separately from the development impact fee schedule captured here. APFO mitigation is a separate program under Maryland Article 25 and was not enumerated this verification pass. A future ZoneFee pass will target the Frederick County Code APFO chapter and the FY26 Approved Budget appendix for any APFO-related transportation impact tax.

Special District Fees

Probed /search?searchPhrase=community+development+authority - no results. Probed /sitemap.xml - no /community-development-authority, /CDA, or special-district fee endpoints surfaced. Doctrinally consistent with Howard County MD and Montgomery County MD: Maryland counties' development-side fee namespace lives in the Department of Permits and Inspections fee schedule and the statutory development impact fee (Article 25 Section 9J); county-administered CDA / TIF / special-tax-district programs do not impose a separate development-side one-time fee for permit issuance. Lake Linganore-area assessment districts and Urbana-area special taxing districts levy recurring property-tax surcharges, not development-side one-time fees, and are out of scope for ZoneFee's developer-fee inventory. Closed-search outcome: fee_family_does_not_apply.

Fee Authorities

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