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Public Facility Fee - Fire Protection

Charged on new development in San Marcos. Collected other: assessed during the permitting process.

What one house pays

$1,060

For a typical home: a 2,000 sq ft detached house on a 0.13 acre lot, on a new subdivision lot.

Share of San Marcos's total: 2%

Total one-time fees here: $62,082

Adjustment: Adjusts yearly · ENR construction cost index
what the document says
ENR Construction Cost Index, annually

Next expected change: 1 Jul 2027

The record

When it is paid

other: assessed during the permitting process

“These fees are typically assessed during the permitting process to pay for impacts and services.”

City of San Marcos, Development Fees eff. 9/1/2026, "FEES IN GENERAL", page 3 · source document ↗

Every published rate

Every rate below applies to single-family detached.

Applies to	Basis	Effective	Amount
Fire Protectionthis home	per sq ft	1 Sep 2026	$0.53
“PFF Table (Per Square Foot) / FEE - SINGLE-FAMILY - MULTI-FAMILY - COMMERCIAL - OFFICE - INDUSTRIAL / Fire Protection $0.53 $0.67 $1.20 $1.75 $0.66” City of San Marcos, Development Fees, effective 9/1/2026, "PUBLIC FACILITIES FEES (PFF)", page 6 · source document ↗

Source documents

–Adopting resolution not found
–Nexus study not found
–Annual fee report (AB 1600) not found
↗Published fee schedule
–Official boundary map not found

Not found means we couldn’t locate it, not that it doesn’t exist. Every linked document is archived here, so a dead link isn’t a dead citation.

Where this comes from

Facts with a quoted source: 1 of 10 record fields
How sure we are: High
Read on: 21 Sep 2026
Kind of document: Adopted fee schedule
Jurisdiction: San Marcos

What “high” means, and what this fee rests on

High: We read this straight from the document that sets the fee: the city's ordinance, the council resolution, or the official fee schedule. This is the strongest kind of source, because the number and the rule come from the agency that charges it, in its own words.
Medium: We read this from an official document, but not the one that sets the fee. It might be a staff report, a study the fee was based on, or another agency's summary of it. These are usually right, but they can lag behind a change or describe a fee differently from the document that sets it. We also use medium when the agency's own documents disagree with each other.
Low: We could not find this in a current official document. It may come from an older version of the schedule, a secondary source, or from how the agency appears to apply the fee in practice. Treat it as a lead and check with the agency before relying on it.
Derived: Not read from a document at all. Filled in from the type of fee, such as which law authorizes it. Shown separately so it is never mistaken for a quotation.

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 21 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Public Facility Fee - Fire Protection, San Marcos”. Figures retrieved 21 Sep 2026 from the documents listed above.

About these figures

Quoted, not summarized. Every amount and fact on this page is copied from the official document it links to. If we couldn’t find something in a document, we leave it blank instead of guessing.

Before any discounts. Some fees offer credits, waivers or phase-ins. They’re listed above but not subtracted, because whether you qualify depends on your project.

Check the date. Fees change. This page shows what was in force on the date at the top, with a link to the document that set it, so you can confirm the current amount yourself. How all of this is put together.

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