Fees by category click a slice
Every fee, and when it is due
| Fee | Category | How it’s charged | Due | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Tulare City SD + Tulare Joint Union HSD (billed jointly, collected by TCSD)Schools (SJV) | Schools | $5.38 per sq ft | Building permit | $10,760 |
| Transportation DIF | Transportation | per home | Building permit | $4,279 |
| Water DIF | Water | per home | Building permit | $3,392 |
| Parks DIF | Parks | per home | Building permit | $2,718 |
| Wastewater DIF | Sewer | per home | Building permit | $2,125 |
| Farmland Mitigation Fee | Other | $6,500 per acre | Grading permit | $845 |
| Library DIF | Other | per home | Building permit | $811 |
| General Government DIF | Public safety | per home | Building permit | $695 |
| Fire DIF | Public safety | per home | Building permit | $496 |
| Groundwater Recharge DIF | Water | $2,163 per acre | Building permit | $281 |
| Storm Drainage DIF | Drainage & flood | $1,796 per acre | Building permit | $233 |
| Police DIF | Public safety | per home | Building permit | $202 |
| Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot | $26,838 | |||
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.
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.
Housing and in-lieu options
No housing or inclusionary charge is recorded for Tulare.
Confirmed absences
Fees Tulare does not charge. Each was looked for and recorded as not charged, so a builder can rely on the blank.
What we have, and what we don’t
All 8 kinds of fee a new home normally pays are on file for Tulare and are in the figure above.
Data notes
Cite this page
Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 25 Sep 2026
Development Fee Index, “Development fees per home, Tulare”. $26,838 for a 2,000 sq ft detached house on a 0.13 acre lot, outside any plan area. Built 25 Sep 2026 from the adopted schedules linked on each fee page.