Planning and Development Services

2023 Impact Fee Schedule Update

Signed Impact Fees Ordinance March 28, 2023

An Impact fee is “a payment of money imposed by Skagit County on development activity pursuant to this Title as a condition of granting development approval and/or a building permit in order to pay for the public facilities needed to serve new growth and development. Impact fee does not include a reasonable permit fee, an application fee, the administrative fee for collecting and handling impact fees, the cost of reviewing independent fee calculations, or the administrative fee required for an appeal pursuant to SCC 14.30.070” (SCC 14.04.020). Skagit County has interlocal agreements with jurisdictions throughout the county to collect impact fees. Per SCC 14.30.030, the County can collect impact fees on behalf of any district (including for a city or town within their municipal UGAs) only if that district’s Capital Facilities Plan is incorporated by reference into the County’s Capital Facilities Plan.

The County will stop collecting impact fees at the end of the last year of the district’s latest Capital Facilities Plan incorporated by reference into the County’s Capital Facilities Plan.

Each jurisdiction under an interlocal agreement with Skagit County is responsible for updating its capital facilities plan and impact fee calculations. The following jurisdictions have provided updated CFPs and impact fee rates:

The updated Capital Facility Plan for the Mount Vernon School District was included by reference in the Skagit County Capital Facilities Plan (CFP) during the annual update process in December 2022. The updated fee schedules for the City of Mount Vernon and Sedro-Woolley will be included in the 2023 Skagit County Capital Facilities Plan update.

The Board of County Commissioners will host meetings to review the updated impact fee schedule on the following dates:

Work Session on Thursday, February 23rd, at 3:00pm
Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 21st, at 8:30am
Deliberations and Potential Action on Tuesday, March 28th, at 10:00am

All meetings with the Board of County Commissioners will be televised and streamed on Zoom. Please visit the Commissioner’s webpage to view agendas and streaming links.