The record
“It is the intent of the City to require every person who develops land to mitigate the impacts of that development on public facilities.”
“The purpose of this article is to establish a traffic facility construction and fee requirement, an urban design facilities construction and fee requirement, a public facilities construction and fee requirement, a park and recreational facilities construction and fee requirement, and a Northeast Area facility construction and fee requirement that impose upon future development projects an equitable share of the cost of mitigating future public facilities demands created by such projects.”
“Northeast Area" means that portion of the City shown on the Land Use Plan (Figure 1-2) of the July 2011 Train Station Specific Plan as well as other land within the City that is located east of Clay Bank Road and north of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.”
2013 (Ord. No. 2013-11, § 2); amended 2022 (Ord. No. 2022-12, § 3)
“the City Council adopted Ordinance 2013-11 to add Article XI to Chapter 25 of the City of Fairfield Municipal Code to codify provisions for impact fees, including the citywide Traffic Impact Fee and various Northeast Area Development Impact Fees (collectively the "Fees")”
Ordinance No. 2013-11, § 2, as amended by Ordinance No. 2022-12, § 3
“the City Council adopted Ordinance 2013-11 to add Article XI to Chapter 25 of the City of Fairfield Municipal Code to codify provisions for impact fees, including the citywide Traffic Impact Fee and various Northeast Area Development Impact Fees (collectively the "Fees")”
at building permit issuance, by Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506
“Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506, "Payment of fees": "Pursuant to California Government Code Section 66007(b), the City has established reserve accounts and appropriated funds to those accounts ... Therefore, fees required by this article shall be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit for a development."”
City of Fairfield, Community Development — Building Safety Division
“NOTE: The fee schedule mentioned above only includes the fees that are collected with the building permit.”
“A developer shall be entitled to a credit to the amount of fees required by this article to the extent that the developer constructs, pursuant to City standards and requirements, public facilities that were included in the project lists used to determine the fees established pursuant to this article.”
Every published rate
Every rate below applies to single-family detached.
| Applies to | Basis | Effective | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Density (RL/RLM) | per DU | 1 Jul 2026 | $20,139 |
the line this rate was read from
City of Fairfield, Community Development – Building Safety Division, "DEVELOPMENT FEES – RESIDENTIAL FEES", Effective 7/1/26, Rev. June 16, 2026, page 5, item 30 "Northeast Area Fees", column heading "Transportation", row "Low Density (RL/RLM)" · source document ↗
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