What it costs in government fees to build a home in Osceola County, Florida

Name: Osceola County, FL development fee stack
Creator: FeeStack

Every impact fee, water and sewer connection charge, and building permit for a new single-family detached home in unincorporated Osceola County — itemized, sourced, and dated.

17 fees verified 11 source documents Compiled Jul 31, 2026

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Total government fees $49,825 Single-family detached, 2,000 sq ft heated/conditioned, 4BR, 3/4" water meter, county water and sewer, unincorporated area. Ranges from $47,479 (South Lake Toho mobility district, June certificate of occupancy) to $57,025 (infill lot requiring tap, sanitary lateral and connection).

Check the utility provider before you rely on thisToho is a separate independent special district created under Ch. 2003-368, Laws of Florida — not the county. Its charges appear on no county fee page.

Impact & mobility fees
Fee	Amount
Mobility Fee — Single-Family, countywide Eff. Jun 20, 2025 · p.1 · source Rose 117% from $9,999 under ordinance passed 9/9/2024	$21,710.14
School Impact Fee — Single-Family Eff. Jun 20, 2025 · p.1 · source	$12,923.00
Park Impact Fee — Single-Family Eff. Jun 20, 2025 · p.1 · source	$2,304.72
Fire Impact Fee — Single-Family Eff. Jun 20, 2025 · p.1 · source	$780.00
Administrative fees Eff. Jun 20, 2025 · rate table header · source	$60.00
Subtotal	$37,778

Water & sewer — Toho Water Authority
Fee	Amount
Water System Development Charge, 3/4" meter Eff. May 5, 2025 · p.1 · source Toho Water Authority. Rises to $7,336 Jan 2027 and $8,022 Jan 2028.	$6,650.00
Wastewater System Development Charge, 3/4" meter Eff. May 5, 2025 · p.1 · source Toho Water Authority. Flat through 2028.	$3,293.00
3/4" potable meter with dual check Eff. Invalid Date · source	$500.00
Account initiation fee Eff. Invalid Date · source	$30.00
Subtotal	$10,473

Building permits, surcharges & other
Fee	Amount
Residential Building Permit — electronic submittal Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · p.3, Res. 25-036R · source Paper submittal is $580. Includes all electrical, mechanical, plumbing, gas and roofing work.	$540.00
Residential Building Permit Review Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · p.10 · source	$100.00
Residential Plan Review Fee Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · p.3 · source	$60.00
Archival Fee (3%) Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · p.1 · source	$16.20
Technology Fee (3%) Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · p.1 · source	$16.20
State of Florida Permit Surcharge (2.5%) Eff. Invalid Date · source F.S. 468.631 at 1.5% ($9.00) plus F.S. 553.721 at 1.0% ($6.00)	$15.00
Fire Rescue Assessment, prorated at CO Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · Res. 25-096R · source July CO pays 14 months. Full-year rate is $312.01.	$364.01
Solid Waste Assessment, prorated at CO Eff. Oct 1, 2025 · Res. 25-096R · source Varies $177.24–$827.12 by month of CO.	$463.11
Subtotal	$1,575

Mobility fee district

Four zones; only the mobility fee varies. School, park and fire are flat countywide.

District	Fee
Countywide (default)	$21,710
Alligator Chain of Lakes CMP	$21,347
East of Lake Toho CMP	$20,654
South Lake Toho CMP	$20,014

What we could not verify These are reported as gaps rather than estimated. The total above is a floor.

Base for the 3% Archival and Technology fees — applied to permit fee alone ($540) per Appendix A; county web page wording could support permit + plan review ($600), a $3.60 difference
The $60 impact-fee administrative charge has no published per-component breakdown
A '$30 Fire Marshal Fee if applicable' appears on the county web page but not in Appendix A — treated as not applicable
Toho service area cannot be confirmed at parcel level; the service-area page is an interactive map with no downloadable boundary data
Some unincorporated parcels sit in Community Development Districts with additional connection charges on top of Toho

Why this number is easy to get wrong

The county's Building Permit Fees web page still publishes a superseded square-footage-tiered schedule. Resolution 25-036R replaced it with a flat fee on 10/1/2025. Both happen to total $600 at 2,000 sq ft, which masks the error at this size but produces wrong answers at every other size.
Toho's 60-page SDC resolution is an image-only PDF — text extraction returns zero characters.
Toho's per-bedroom level-of-service table looks like it should apply to a 4-bedroom house. It is multi-family only.

This page models one house. 2,000 sq ft, single-family detached, Countywide (default). If you're underwriting an actual project — a unit mix, a different district, a CO date that might slip past a scheduled increase — we compute that stack for you.
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How to use this. Every figure is transcribed from an official Osceola County, service-district or Florida Statutes document, linked inline, with its effective date. No third-party legal-code mirrors were used — in testing, one returned impact fees off by 2.4×. Water and sewer is 21% of this stack. Built for screening and pro-forma work; confirm with the county and the district before you sign anything.

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