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Biological Impact Fee

Charged on new development in Lancaster. Authorized under the Mitigation Fee Act - Gov. Code Sec. 66000 et seq.

Not priced for this house. This charge is real, adopted and collected, and it is left out of Lancaster's figure for one reason: it is levied per gross acre of the subdivision at final map, and a typical home does not fix that quantity. That is not the same as a zero. The fee is owed; what is missing is the number to multiply by, and inventing one would price this house with more confidence and less truth. Every published rate is in the table below.

The record

We haven’t read the documents behind this fee yet, so this section is blank rather than guessed.

1,041 of 1,321 fees carry a quoted record; the largest were read first.

Every published rate

Every rate below applies to residential.

Applies to	Basis	Effective	Amount
not priced — levied on the subdivision’s gross acreage at final map, which this prototype does not state	per gross acre of the subdivision at final map	1 Oct 2025	$770.00
the line this rate was read from “BIOLOGICAL IMPACT FEE $770.00 per gross acre” Citywide Fee Schedule, effective 2025-10-01, II – Public Works & Community Development, Section 3: Development Impact Fees, p. 8 · source document ↗

Source documents

–Adopting resolution not found
–Nexus study not found
–Annual fee report (AB 1600) not found
↗Published fee schedule
–Official boundary map not found

Not found means we couldn’t locate it, not that it doesn’t exist. Every linked document is archived here, so a dead link isn’t a dead citation.

Where this comes from

Facts with a quoted source: 0 of 10 record fields
Read on: 2 Sep 2026
Kind of document: Adopted fee schedule
Jurisdiction: Lancaster

What “none” means, and what this fee rests on

High: We read this straight from the document that sets the fee: the city's ordinance, the council resolution, or the official fee schedule. This is the strongest kind of source, because the number and the rule come from the agency that charges it, in its own words.
Medium: We read this from an official document, but not the one that sets the fee. It might be a staff report, a study the fee was based on, or another agency's summary of it. These are usually right, but they can lag behind a change or describe a fee differently from the document that sets it. We also use medium when the agency's own documents disagree with each other.
Low: We could not find this in a current official document. It may come from an older version of the schedule, a secondary source, or from how the agency appears to apply the fee in practice. Treat it as a lead and check with the agency before relying on it.
Derived: Not read from a document at all. Filled in from the type of fee, such as which law authorizes it. Shown separately so it is never mistaken for a quotation.

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 2 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Biological Impact Fee, Lancaster”. Figures retrieved 2 Sep 2026 from the documents listed above.

About these figures

Quoted, not summarized. Every amount and fact on this page is copied from the official document it links to. If we couldn’t find something in a document, we leave it blank instead of guessing.

Before any discounts. Some fees offer credits, waivers or phase-ins. They’re listed above but not subtracted, because whether you qualify depends on your project.

Check the date. Fees change. This page shows what was in force on the date at the top, with a link to the document that set it, so you can confirm the current amount yourself. How all of this is put together.

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