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Impact fee update 2025

A study showed a maximum single-family impact fee of about $35,000, up from $12,000-$13,000. On Jan. 27, 2026 the council directed staff to draft fees starting at 58% of the maximum and rising to 75% over five years.

In review

Type
Code change
Applicant
City of Orem
Location
Citywide and Southwest Annexation area
  1. Jan 27, 2026City Council: Public hearing: impact fees
  2. Nov 18, 2025City Council: Draft impact fee facilities plan and fee analysis

In brief

Impact fee update 2025 appears on 2 recorded agendas, from the City Council meeting of November 18, 2025 to the City Council meeting of January 27, 2026.

Follow the money and project delivery

Impact fee update 2025

In review

  1. Council action

    No approval or denial linked in the records collected.

  2. Money in the record

    budget: $25.6 million — Ten-year parks capital investment identified in the facilities plan; budget: $2.80 million — Ten-year police capital investment identified in the plan; budget: $4.50 million — Ten-year fire capital investment identified in the plan (plus apparatus); budget: $3.50 million — Transportation improvements identified in the plan Record → · Nov. 18, 2025

  3. Signed agreement and payments

    Execution and project-level disbursements are not verified by this tracker. They require separate records; meeting approval alone does not establish either.

  4. Work and operating costs

    Check the linked records for completion and recurring operating costs; this tracker does not verify them. Record →

Every hearing and vote

  1. January 27, 2026 · City Council

    Public hearing: impact fees

    No action

    Assistant City Manager Ryan Clark and consultant Fred Philpot outlined options: the calculated maximum, about 58% of the maximum (regional average), or a 'surgical' approach reducing parks fees and removing buy-in components. No one spoke at the hearing. Council Members Mecham and Lambson favored at least the regional average with periodic escalation; Millett and Killpack said fees should not exceed 75% of the maximum; Muhlestein preferred the simpler percentage approach; Gale supported the lower option given the city is largely built out. Consensus direction to staff: start at 58% of the maximum and escalate to a ceiling of 75% over five years, roughly 7% a year compounding. Staff will draft an ordinance with year-by-year schedules.

  2. November 18, 2025 · City Council

    Draft impact fee facilities plan and fee analysis

    Discussed

    Fred Philpott of LRB Public Finance Advisors presented a draft Impact Fee Facilities Plan and Impact Fee Analysis covering parks and recreation, police, fire, transportation, culinary water, wastewater and storm water, with separate calculations for the city-wide area and the Southwest Annexation area. The maximum fee for a single-family home on a typical 0.2-acre lot would rise from about $12,000-$13,000 to about $35,000, which would be the highest in Utah County (average about $20,000). Philpott attributed the increase to cost growth since the 2018 study; assumed parkland cost rose from $170,000 to over $575,000 an acre, raising the parks fee 178%. Council members said they preferred a fee closer to the median; options discussed were adopting a percentage of the maximum, phasing increases, or removing the optional 'buy-in' component. The council decided to hold another work session before the statutory public hearing. Any adopted fee takes effect after a 90-day wait.

    • Presenter: Fred Philpott, LRB Public Finance Advisors
    • Proposed maximum single-family fee: about $35,000 (current about $12,000-$13,000)
    • Revenue must be spent within six years or be subject to reimbursement