Comprehensive Fee Studies: Calculate the full direct and indirect cost of the services that your agency provides to the public.
Impact Fees: Determine the proportionate needs for infrastructure in your jurisdiction based on new development and projected growth.
Development Review Fees: Identify direct and indirect costs and provide best practices for assessing development-related fees for building, planning, land development/engineering, and fire prevention.

User and Impact Fee Studies

Our team brings extensive expertise in user and impact fees, working with cities, counties, and special districts to optimize revenue strategies. We help you identify potential fees for service, project revenue impacts, and ensure that fees are defensible.

Our Approach

User & Impact Fees

Data Gathering

We start with collecting jurisdictional-specific data related to operational and infrastructure costs.

Assumption Development

Our team conducts interviews to align on time, resource, and growth assumptions.

Calculations

Leverage jurisdiction-specific data, available resources, and proportionality to accurately calculate the maximum justifiable cost.

Stakeholder Engagement

Present results to a diverse range of internal and external partners to ensure shared understanding and informed decision-making.

OUR TRACK RECORD

Defensible, Implementable Fees

We pride ourselves on ensuring that our fee studies are implemented and adopted by policymakers. Our unique approach combines our management expertise with financial prowess to guarantee buy-in from internal and external stakeholders.

300+: Cost of Service Studies
80%: Fee Structure Optimization
90%: Fee Adoption
30%: Repeat Clients

Jurisdictions face a critical challenge in ensuring that fees for public services accurately reflect the cost of providing those services. Many cities, counties, and districts operate with outdated fee structures that fail to recover the full cost of service delivery, leading to revenue shortfalls, regulatory compliance risks, and inefficiencies in budgeting and operations. Additionally, fee […]

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Financial & Cost Allocations

User & Impact Fees

Navigating the Mitigation Fee Act

California Government Code Section 66000, referred to as the Mitigation Fee Act, provides a comprehensive legal framework for ensuring that development impact fees (DIFs) are justified, documented, and used for their intended purpose. The principles and procedures it establishes must be followed by local agencies seeking to impose fees on new developments in order to […]

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