Fees by category click a slice
Every fee, and when it is due
| Fee | Category | How it’s charged | Due | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traffic Impact Fee (TIF) ProgramZone C (El Dorado Hills) | Transportation | per home | Building permit | $38,739 |
| EID Water Facility Capacity ChargeEID | Water | per connection | Service connection | $33,809 |
| EID Wastewater Facility Capacity ChargeEID | Sewer | per connection | Service connection | $14,377 |
| El Dorado Hills CSD Park Impact Feestandard rateEDH CSD | Parks | per home | Building permit | $13,495 |
| School Facilities Fee (Level 1) - Placerville Union SD + El Dorado Union HSD (combined)unverifiedSchools | Schools | $5.17 per sq ft | Building permit | $10,340 |
| El Dorado Hills Fire Impact FeeEDH Fire | Public safety | $1.18 per sq ft | Building permit | $2,360 |
| Rare Plant Mitigation Fee (Ecological Preserve Fee)unverifiedMitigation Area 1 | Other | per home | Building permit | $885 |
| Development fees per home · 2,000 sq ft, 0.13 acre lot | $114,005 | |||
Each line is the one rate this home pays. Most fees publish several rates — by house size, lot, or location — and only one applies. Click a fee for its full schedule and source documents.
Charges that are not part of the one-time total above: fees set as a percentage of another fee, and payments a builder can make instead of building something. Neither is added to the headline figure, because neither is a fixed amount every new home owes.
Percentage surcharges
No percentage surcharge is recorded for El Dorado County (unincorporated).
Housing and in-lieu options
No housing or inclusionary charge is recorded for El Dorado County (unincorporated).
Confirmed absences
Fees El Dorado County (unincorporated) does not charge. Each was looked for and recorded as not charged, so a builder can rely on the blank.
Recorded gaps
Charges that exist here but whose amount could not be found in an official source. The figure above is understated by whatever they turn out to be. They are listed so that a charge we could not price is never read as a charge of nothing.
What we have, and what we don’t
All 8 kinds of fee a new home normally pays are on file for El Dorado County (unincorporated) and are in the figure above.
Data notes
Cite this page
Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 25 Sep 2026
Development Fee Index, “Development fees per home, El Dorado County (unincorporated)”. $114,005 for a 2,000 sq ft detached house on a 0.13 acre lot, outside any plan area. Built 25 Sep 2026 from the adopted schedules linked on each fee page.