#impact-fees

#impact-fees

Teams are retooling cost models, tightening assumptions, and searching for every possible advantagenot just to make deals pencil out, but also to protect margins and unlock new long-term land value in an uncertain market. Across the housing landscapewhether suburban expansion zones, exurban corridors, or infill pocketslocal jurisdictions are stuck. Their roads, sewer systems, schools, and parks weren't built for the population surges we're seeing today. But public coffers are empty. So they're turning to private developers and builders to pay up.