Community Development Fees

Fees as of July 1, 2025

Pre-application meeting:

  • First meeting per property per year: $0
  • Subsequent meetings (same property within same year): $500.00

Comment letter meeting (technical review of plan comments)

Per each department required at meeting: $100.00

Annexation:

  • Residential (greater than five acres) and all non-residential: $0
  • Single-family residential (five acres or less) (includes Comprehensive Plan amendment and zoning): $625.00
  • Legal advertisement fee: (excluding annexation single-family package – five acres or less): $375.00
  • Pre-annexation agreement: (plus $150 per hour over first three hours): $94.00

Zoning/rezoning:

  • Zoning map amendment $1,407.00
  • Zoning text amendment $2,813.00
  • Legal advertisement fee $125.00

Comprehensive Plan amendment:

  • Small scale Comprehensive Plan amendment (as defined by F.S. ch. 163.3187): $1,438.00
    • Legal advertisement fee: $125.00
  • Large scale Comprehensive Plan amendment: $2,188.00
    • Legal advertisement fee: $375.00
  • Comprehensive Plan text amendment: $2,969.00
    • Legal advertisement fee: $375.00
  • Land development regulations text amendment: $2,782.00
    • Legal advertisement fee: $250.00
  • Conditional use: $1,375.00
    • Legal advertisement fee: $125.00

Formal site plan:

  • Formal site plan review fee (plus $25 per acre of plan area): $2,344.00
  • Site plan extension fee: $125.00
  • Substantial change to site plan 50% of original site plan review:
  • 4th Plan Review (additional charge for each subsequent review): 50% of original site plan review

Preliminary development plan (PDP): $3,032.00 plus $25.00 per acre of plan area

  • 4th PDP Plan Review (additional charge for each subsequent review): 50% of original PDP plan review

Parking lot in a residential district: $1,469.00

Waiver of visual screen: $219.00

Preliminary subdivision plat: $2,469.00 plus $25.00 per acre of plan area

  • 4th Plat Review (additional charge for each subsequent review): 50% of original Plat review

Final subdivision plat: $2,094.00 (plus surveying fees per F.S. ch. 177)

Final subdivision plat legal review:

  • Minor (less than eight lots and no internal roadway) (plus $150/hour over first five hours): $625.00
  • Major (eight or more lots and/or inclusion of internal roadway) (plus $150/hour over first five hours): $1,250.00

Subdivision variance: $1,594.00

Vacation and abandonment of plat: $1,750.00

Developers’ agreement (if prepared by city):

  • First 20 hours: $3,125.00
  • Over 20 hours: Additional $150/hour for each hour

Developers’ agreement (if prepared by applicant & reviewed by city):

  • First 20 hours: $1,719.00
  • Over 20 hours: Additional $150/hour for each hour

Variances (other than subdivision code):

  • Administrative waiver: $125.00
  • Single- or two-family residences: $438.00
  • All other land uses: $563.00
  • Legal advertisement fee (excluding administrative waiver): $125.00
  • Zoning verification letter: $157.00

Concurrency evaluations:

  • Recreation: $32.00
  • Transportation (insignificant if less than 3% average daily trips): $157.00
  • Transportation (significant if greater than 3% average daily trips): $375.00
  • Water (inside): $63.00
  • Water (outside): $125.00
  • Sewer: $63.00
  • Drainage: $32.00

Appeal of Historic and Architectural Review Board (HARB) decision to City Council: $438.00

Appeal of Planning & Zoning Board decision to City Council: $438.00

Appeal of decision/interpretation of City Code or Comprehensive Plan by Community Development Director or Building Official or City Engineer: $438.00

Historic and Architectural Review Board application: $63.00

Formal protest review fee by property owner within 500-foot buffer: $125.00

Property owner mailing notification within 500-foot buffer: $94.00

Required property posting (excluding HARB applications): $94.00

Brownfield designation outside of the Melbourne Economic Enhancement District: $875.00

Back to top