{"id":47596,"date":"2025-11-13T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47596\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:18:09","slug":"plano-developers-to-see-increased-fees-for-city-planning-engineering-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47596\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano developers to see increased fees for city planning, engineering services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDevelopers looking to build in Plano are set to see increased fees for planning, engineering and building services as part of the city\u2019s cost recovery plan.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed increases were approved by Plano City Council members at their Nov. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/planotx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/360465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What it means<\/p>\n<p>The fees would be part of the city\u2019s ongoing cost recovery efforts, which began in March. Departments developed proposed cost recovery targets and fee replacements in September, ahead of council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-south\/government\/2025\/10\/28\/plano-eyes-increased-fees-on-developers-as-part-of-cost-recovery-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussion<\/a> of the adjusted fees in October.<\/p>\n<p>According to city documents, each department will see an increase in revenue for FY 2025-26:<\/p>\n<p>Planning Department: $445,495 in revenueEngineering Department: $797,094 in revenueBuilding Inspections Department: $278,372 in revenue<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761683004_63_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Breaking it down<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/plano.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=10295&amp;MeetingID=3648\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">building inspection fees<\/a> will increase from 20% to 150%, with the largest increases for waste disposal and same-day inspections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plano.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=10417&amp;MeetingID=3648\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engineering and planning services fees<\/a> will also increase, ranging from newly established fees for services that previously had none to hikes of several hundred dollars for existing service fees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763014689_837_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/>Zooming out<\/p>\n<p>Plano officials also recently adopted an ordinance increasing <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-south\/government\/2025\/08\/01\/plano-raises-park-fees-for-developers-in-face-of-rising-land-costs-rise-new-state-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">park fees<\/a> in response to rising land costs and new state legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Park fees are one-time payments charged for each new residential unit to help fund public parkland, ensuring local green space keeps pace with population growth.<\/p>\n<p>The increased fees include:<\/p>\n<p>Single-family homes fees will rise from $2,065 to $5,691 per unit\u2014a 176% increaseMultifamily homes will rise from $1,443.66 to $4,359.86 per unit\u2014a 202% increaseWhat\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>The new fees will take effect in January, according to city documents.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developers looking to build in Plano are set to see increased fees for planning, engineering and building services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17679,712,713,708,715,714,160,711,4222,27457,17672,162,161,720,17677,17676,13341,17678,717,17674,17673,17675],"class_list":["post-47596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas-north-tollway-plano","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-downtown-plano","tag-east-plano","tag-park-and-preston","tag-parker-road","tag-plano","tag-plano-construction","tag-plano-development","tag-plano-development-fees","tag-plano-development-rules","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-parks-and-recreation","tag-plano-sb-840-plano-multifamily-apartments","tag-plano-senate-bill-840","tag-senate-bill-840","tag-single-family-housing-plano","tag-us-75-construction","tag-zoning-application-plano","tag-zoning-change-plano","tag-zoning-petition-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}