Impact Fees in Titusville

Titusville charges its own one-time impact fees for police, fire, City Hall and public works on new homes and businesses, plus separate water and sewer connection fees, while Brevard County collects the transportation impact fee for the city.

The city Impact Fees page quotes the purpose clause of Sec. 34-421 of the Land Development Regulations: new development is to pay its fair and proportionate share of the capital costs for road, park, fire, police protection, public works and City Hall improvements needed to serve it (City of Titusville Impact Fees page). The same page says impact fees are assessed when new homes and new businesses are built or when existing businesses expand, that they are a one-time fee, and that they keep existing residents from bearing the cost of facilities that new development needs. It links schedules for city impact fees, city sewer impact fees, land development application fees, the city transportation impact fees on Brevard County's fee schedule, and school concurrency fees.

Two other agencies take part in Titusville. The city page says Brevard County collects the city's transportation impact fees and the Brevard Public Schools district collects school concurrency fees. The county's own impact fee page lists Titusville among the 16 cities for which it collects impact fees, says the fees collected vary with the inter-local agreement between the county and each city, and names the county fee types as correctional facilities, educational facilities, EMS, fire rescue, library facilities, solid waste and transportation (Brevard County Impact Fees page). The city's Community Development FAQ answers the common question of whether both apply: impact fees must be paid to the city and county unless there was already an existing building at the location, in which case fees may possibly be credited (City of Titusville Community Development FAQ).

The Titusville schedule in section 34-424 of the Land Development Regulations sets a residential fee per unit for each service, and each row carries the date the code prints beside it.

The schedule of impact fees by land use type was amended by Ord. No. 19-2025 on May 27, 2025, and its rows are dated October 1 of each year from 2025 (Titusville Land Development Regulations, Chapter 34, Article IX). The road column is marked with an asterisk that points to the Brevard County Transportation Impact Fee under Chapter 62, Article V, Division 6 of the county code, and the park column shows a dash. The total column is footnoted as the city fee plus the County Transportation Impact Fee.

The Titusville schedule also prints rows for later October 1 dates. Mixed-use buildings are charged by apportioning space among the uses on the schedule, a use not listed is charged as the most nearly comparable use, and accessory buildings pay the same rate as the principal use. The fees rest on two studies the council adopted by reference: a water and wastewater impact fee study by Raftelis dated February 25, 2025, and a municipal impact fee study by Raftelis dated April 14, 2025.

Titusville charges water and sewer connection fees per ERC by meter size, with base rates per ERC dated October 1, 2025 and October 1, 2026 in sections 34-441 and 34-442 of its code.

Division 3 of Article IX, titled water and sewer impact fees, sets these charges (Titusville Land Development Regulations, Division 3). The sewer connection fee is the number of ERCs times $2,320.00 as of October 1, 2025 and $2,450.00 as of October 1, 2026; the water connection fee is the number of ERCs times $2,035.00 as of October 1, 2025 and $2,100.00 as of October 1, 2026. Those per-ERC rates are also the minimum fees. A 5/8 to 3/4 inch meter counts as 1 ERC and an 8-inch meter as 80. Multifamily units pay .85 ERC of the single-family rate for each unit.

For new construction in Titusville both are collected when the utility service account is established; for existing structures they are paid at the plumbing permit. An existing structure connecting to the city system may pay in cash or in monthly installments of no more than twenty-four months on the regular utility bill, an election that authorizes a first and prior lien on the property. The money goes to a separate interest-bearing connection fee fund that may be spent only on expanding water supply and treatment or wastewater treatment, pumping and effluent disposal capacity, or on debt for that expansion (Sec. 34-443). The city Community Development FAQ points builders to this part of the code for water and sewer impact fees (Community Development FAQ).

Titusville sources give two times: the code says impact and connection fees are paid when the building permit is issued, while the city Impact Fees page says they are typically collected before the certificate of occupancy.

Sec. 34-423, amended by Ord. No. 18-2025 and Ord. No. 19-2025, says an applicant pays the applicable impact and connection fees at the time of issuance of the building permit, that fees are paid to the city and collected by the administrator, and that administrative charges are limited to actual costs (Titusville Land Development Regulations Sec. 34-423). The Impact Fees page describes them as a one-time fee typically collected prior to issuance of the certificate of occupancy during the building permit process (City of Titusville Impact Fees page).

State law adds a timing rule for newer fees. The Florida Impact Fee Act, section 163.31801, Florida Statutes, says that for impact fees adopted or increased after July 1, 2026, a local government must ensure collection is not required earlier than the date the building permit is issued (Florida Statutes section 163.31801). Brevard County's impact fee FAQ adds that most cities require payment before the certificate of occupancy while some require it before the building permit, and tells builders in a city to check with that city (Brevard County impact fee FAQ).

Titusville exempts small expansions under 500 square feet or 5 percent, alterations that add no units or trips, like-for-like replacements and religious worship buildings, and credits redevelopment within the same land use category.

Titusville code Sec. 34-427 lists the exemptions: alterations to an existing building where no units are added, the use does not change and no extra vehicle trips result; accessory buildings or expansions of less than 500 square feet or 5 percent of the existing building, whichever is less; replacement of a building that produces no additional trips; and new development owned by a nonprofit religious organization and used only for religious activities, though a child care facility or school run by a religious organization is not exempt (Sec. 34-427).

Under Titusville code Sec. 34-426, a change of use, redevelopment or alteration without expansion pays no impact fee when the old and new uses fall in the same category, residential or nonresidential; an expansion or a switch between categories pays on the net increase. Off-site road work that adds capacity beyond what approval requires, and land or improvements dedicated for public parks, can be credited against the matching part of the fee. A builder who rejects the schedule may file an independent fee calculation report with a traffic engineering study, paying a review fee of 3 percent of the scheduled fee up to $4,800 (Sec. 34-425). State law separately allows a city to waive impact fees for affordable housing (section 163.31801).

Titusville impact fees go into six restricted funds, for roads, parks, fire, police, City Hall and public works, and must buy growth-related capital, never salaries or routine maintenance.

Titusville code Sec. 34-428 places each fee in its own interest-bearing fund and limits spending to capital improvements, land, facilities and equipment needed for new growth (Sec. 34-428). Fees not spent within ten years of payment are refunded to the current owner of record, who must apply within sixty days of the tenth anniversary; collections and spending are reported to the City Council each year, and the fee structure is reevaluated at least every five years (Sec. 34-429). A decision of the administrator may be appealed to the City Council by filing with the City Clerk within thirty days.

In the FY2026 adopted budget, Impact Fees fund 111 records total revenue of $214,547 in FY2023 and $3,051,382 in FY2024, with the FY2024 lines showing fire $210,917, police $319,056, public works $72,713, City Hall $6,805 and roads $2,405,102; the FY2026 adopted budget carries $210,000 of fire impact fee revenue, matched by a $210,000 transfer to the general fund (City of Titusville FY2026 Adopted Budget, Impact Fees Fund 111). The same fund records a FY2024 transfer of $2,406,379 to roads and streets.

The Florida Impact Fee Act, section 163.31801, sets study, accounting and proportionality rules for impact fees adopted or increased after July 1, 2026, and limits how fast any fee, Titusville fees included, can rise.

For fees that Titusville or any other local government adopts or increases after July 1, 2026, the statute requires a demonstrated-need study using the most recent localized data within 4 years of the update, separate accounting, administrative charges limited to actual costs, at least 90 days notice before a new or increased fee takes effect, and spending earmarked for capital facilities that benefit new users (Florida Statutes section 163.31801). Increases of up to 25 percent must be phased in over two equal annual steps and increases above 25 percent up to 50 percent over four; a fee may not rise more than 50 percent or more than once every 4 years, except under the statute's extraordinary circumstances process, which needs a study, two public workshops and a unanimous vote.

Subsection (12) of the statute says the section does not apply to water and sewer connection fees. Titusville writes its water and sewer charges as connection fees, inside a code division titled water and sewer impact fees. Questions on the city fees go to Development Services through the Impact Fees page; county fees go to the Brevard County impact fees contact at (321) 633-2068 (Brevard County impact fee FAQ).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against fresh copies of the Titusville Impact Fees page and Community Development FAQ, Article IX of the city Land Development Regulations, Impact Fees fund 111 in the FY2026 adopted budget, the Brevard County impact fee page and FAQ, and section 163.31801 of the Florida Statutes.