Impact Fees

Section 4.10 of the Waukesha Municipal Code

Purpose

When underdeveloped land is developed it often creates the need for additional infrastructure such as roads, water, sewage, storm water facilities as well as parks and recreational facilities and other public facilities. The challenge faced by the City is to find an equitable way to fund this new infrastructure.

The City can forego the new needed public services, impose additional taxes on current residents or impose impact fees on developers to pay for public facilities. Following an action by the state legislature adopting an Impact Fee Law, the City enacted an ordinance to impose impact fees on certain developers in an effort for new development to pay its fair share of municipal capital costs.

Fee Schedule

Facility Type Single Family Multi-Family Industrial Commercial Institutional
Storm sewer, drainage, storm water management facility$4,000 per acre$4,000 per acre$4,000 per acre$4,000 per acre$4,000 per acre
Sanitary interceptor sewer, sewage pumping station, sewage force mains$500 per acre$500 per acre$500 per acre$500 per acre$500 per acre
Playgrounds, recreational facility, parkland$479 per dwelling unit
  • Duplex – $352 per unit
  • Efficiency – $141 per unit
  • 1 bedroom – $183 per unit
  • 2 bedroom – $296 per unit
  • 3 bedroom & up – $479 per unit
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The Park and Recreation Board may determine that a plat or certified survey map may require a future park or other recreational facilities and require the developer to reserve such an area that the City will purchase within a three year period for such purposes.

The developer may also be required to dedicate such land to the City as part of an impact fee payment