Impact Fees provide one way to help ensure that existing residents will not bear the cost of capital improvements and services necessitated by new development. Residential development is assessed Transportation, Fire, Law Enforcement, Parks & Recreation and School impact fees.

Residential development includes:

• Single Family Residence (includes Manufactured Home)
• Mobile Home (Private Property or Mobile Home Park)
• Senior Adult Housing (Attached & Detached)
• Accessory Dwelling Units
• Multi-Family Housing
• Low-Rise, 1-2 Floors
• Mid-Rise, 3-10 Floors
• High-Rise, > 10 Floors
• Townhome
• Duplex

Construction documents for single family and mobile homes are initially submitted to the Zoning Division. Upon approval by Zoning, the building permit is routed to other departments for review, including the Division of Building Safety. Construction documents for multifamily projects are initially submitted to Plans Coordination for routing to other departments for review. Building permit application can now be submitted online using FastTrack Services.

After approval by Building Safety, Impact Fees are assessed at the rate in effect on the date of the submittal of a legally sufficient application..

• Impact fees are paid when the permit is issued.
• Exemptions for alterations or expansion of an existing dwelling unit where no additional dwelling units are created and the expanded unit remained within the same size tier, as applicable, in the fee schedule shall be applied; otherwise the difference for a tier change shall be applied (related to transportation and school single family home impact fee categories).
• Impact fee credits can be applied to the building permit when an executed Assignment Letter request is emailed to ImpactFees@ocfl.net.
• To request an impact fee Assignment letter template, please email ImpactFees@ocfl.net for our most up to date version.
• A Residential Deferred Impact Fee Application must be submitted to the Impact Fee office prior to issuance of the building permit.
• Multifamily projects with a permit valuation of at least $1,000,000.00 may defer impact fees according to the Impact Fee Ordinance and a Commercial Deferred Impact Fee Application must be submitted to the Impact Fee office prior to issuance of the building permit.