DevFeeFinder
Orange County City

Development fees for a new home in Irvine

$41,712

One-time fees on a typical new single-family home: 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot, three bedrooms, in a new subdivision.

Plan area: outside any plan area

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · as of 25 Sep 2026 · Methodology

CountyOrange
Plan areaoutside any plan area
Home2,000 sq ft · 0.13 acre
Figures as of25 Sep 2026

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Outside a plan area: $41,712. In Focus Area 1 (Greater Irvine Business Complex Area) — the location in Irvine that carries the most fee — $52,392. Both are true, and both are on this page: choose that location under Where in Irvine? and the table below shows the second, fee by fee.

Fees by category click a slice

Transportation — $6,970 Water — $6,165 Sewer — $18,237 Schools — $10,340
$41,712
6 fees
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Every fee, and when it is due

FeeCategoryHow it’s chargedDueAmount
IRWD sewer connection feestandard rateIRWDSewerper homeService connection$11,649
Irvine USD school facilities fee (Level 1)Irvine USDSchools$5.17 per sq ftBuilding permit$10,340
TCA Major Thoroughfare & Bridge Fee ProgramFoothill/Eastern Zone ATCATransportationper homeBuilding permit$6,905
OC San Capital Facilities Capacity ChargeOC SanSewerper homeBuilding permit$6,588
IRWD water connection feestandard rateIRWDWaterper homeService connection$6,165
Slurry Seal Fee for Road Wear and TearTransportationper homeBuilding permit$65
Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot$41,712

Each line is the one rate this home pays. Most fees publish several rates — by house size, lot, or location — and only one applies. Click a fee for its full schedule and source documents.

Published rates that could not be converted

These are real charges. They are left out of the figure because they cannot be worked out per house without knowing something this site does not assume — a percentage of another fee, a per-room count, a per-application charge.

SB 1473 Building Standards fee, and charges enumerated without rates on the City fee scheduleper $100,000 valuationrate only
Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (SMIP) feeper $100,000 valuationrate only
Systems Development Chargepercentrate only

Charges that are not part of the one-time total above: fees set as a percentage of another fee, and payments a builder can make instead of building something. Neither is added to the headline figure, because neither is a fixed amount every new home owes.

Percentage surcharges

Administration charges set as a percentage of other fees. Shown as a rate, because what they come to depends on the project.

Systems Development Chargeof ICC construction valuation — about $417 on this figure1%

Housing and in-lieu options

Paid instead of building something — affordable units, for instance — or measured on something the figure above does not assume. An alternative, not an addition.

Inclusionary Housing in-lieu feeno amount we could find—
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