Planning and Environmental Review Fees

Fee Schedule. Review our Fee Schedule on the Land Use Regulation Library.

Fee Calculator. Generate an estimate of fees required for applications with our Fee Calculator on the Land Use Regulation Library. Applicable fees will be provided by official invoice once your application has been initiated.​

Planning Research Fees

A Planning Review Fee of $165.11 per hour will be charged for public information requests that take longer than 15 minutes.  See the Planning Research Applicatio​n Form on the Applications Page for more details, and to m​ake your specific research request.

Development Fee Deferral Programs

The Development Fee Deferral Program  provides fee waivers as incentives to encourage development for affordable housing, residential in general, and certain non-residential development.

Environmental Review Fees

The cost of the environmental analysis for a project is dependent upon several factors including the complexity and type of project and site-specific impacts that may be caused by the project. The following link provides general information on how mitigation monitoring costs are calculated.  Ultimately, an estimate of the cost of the environmental analysis for a project is calculated by Environmental Review staff based on specific characteristics of the project and its potential impacts.

Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program costs are estimated based on ​PER’s experience with monitoring compliance since the County’s adoption of the MMRP Ordinance (Title 20, Chapter 20.02 of the County Code) in 1990. This ordinance was adopted in response to an amendment to CEQA by the California Legislature in 1988, and authorized DERA to recover the costs associated with monitoring compliance with adopted MMRPs.

The monitoring cost for an MMRP is the amount determined by the Environmental Coordinator to be the actual direct and indirect costs incurred by Sacramento County for that MMRP, using labor rates that are adopted by the Board of Supervisors. Until compliance with a specific MMRP is finally achieved and a Program Completion Certificate is issued, monitoring costs are estimated by the Environmental Coordinator. After adoption of an MMRP by the Approving Body, adjustments to the initial estimate are made by the Environmental Coordinator as necessary to accurately reflect the direct and indirect costs incurred by Sacramento County for that Program. It is the responsibility of the project applicant to reimburse DERA for all expenses incurred in the implementation of the MMRP, including any necessary enforcement actions.

These costs include, but are not limited to, tasks such as plan review, correspondence, review of documentation from consultants, coordination with resource agencies, and field inspections throughout project construction. Costs are estimated with the assumption that the applicant will comply with the MMRP. Time-intensive tasks such as repeated plan review and frequent site inspections to resolve continuing non-compliance will result in higher costs, since the costs are based on hourly labor rates.

In addition to the monitoring costs that cover staff time, some mitigation measures may have a financial cost or mitigation fee associated with them. Examples of these measures include tree replacement, wetlands compensation, and Swainson’s hawk foraging habitat mitigation. Below is a table of current costs for these mitigation fees. Please note that these are provided as examples; not all projects will have these costs. For more information, please contact us at 874-7914. ​