Lake County adopted five types of impact fees to help pay for additional infrastructure due to new development. To determine impact fees on a certain project, view Lake County's Residential Impact Fee Schedule. These fees are one-time charges on all development and are paid when a project is permitted. The fire-services impact fee is only charged on projects located in areas served by the Lake County Fire Rescue Division.

Collected impact fees can only be spent on projects that increase the capacity of whatever service for which they are being charged. For example, road impact fees are used to help pay the costs associated with increasing the capacity of arterial and collector roads, which are the major roads within the County’s transportation network. This may include the addition of lanes to existing roads or the construction of new roads. Impact fees will not be used for routine maintenance of existing roads or for improvements to local roads, such as minor streets within subdivisions. Similar restrictions apply to collected school, fire, parks and library impact fees.

Additionally, impact fees can only be spent on projects within the district in which they were collected. Lake County is divided into six road impact-fee districts, based on traffic characteristics in the County. There are three park impact-fee districts and fire, school and library have only one impact-fee district.

Several other topics may apply to impact fees on residential construction. For more information, review an additional page about waivers, credits, refunds and exemptions.