Deal: St. Louis Park West End, 200 unitsPage: City fees

City fees across the metro

Sample

The city-controlled fee stack in 8 cities, priced on the sample 200-unit building.

Sample rows and every contact are sample data; published rows link to their schedule. None is confirmed with a city.

St. Louis Park, the deal's city: $683,000; Rank 4 of 8$3,415 per unit
Cheapest stack: $565,000; $2,825 per unitHopkins
Spread, cheapest to steepest: $810,000; Plymouth highest
Lines from a published schedule: 10 of 51; 0 city confirmed

Same building, eight cities

City-controlled lines only; SAC and watershed lines are the same everywhere or set elsewhere.

City-controlled fees on the sample building · cheapest first

Hopkins

$565,000$2,825 per unit

Golden Valley

$570,000$2,850 per unit

Bloomington

$595,000$2,975 per unit

St. Louis Park

$683,000$3,415 per unit

Edina

$685,000$3,425 per unit

Minneapolis

$965,000$4,825 per unit

Minnetonka

$1,110,000$5,550 per unit

Plymouth

$1,375,000$6,875 per unit

1
$565,000
Sample
2
$570,000
Sample
3
$595,000
Sample
4
$683,000
Partly published
5
$685,000
Sample
6
$965,000
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7
$1,110,000
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8
$1,375,000
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City fee stacks, cheapest first
Rank	City	City-controlled	Per unit	Published lines	Coverage	Details
1	Hopkins	$565,000	$2,825	0 of 4	Sample
2	Golden Valley	$570,000	$2,850	0 of 5	Sample
3	Bloomington	$595,000	$2,975	0 of 6	Sample
4	St. Louis Parkthe deal's city	$683,000	$3,415	2 of 5	Partly published
5	Edina	$685,000	$3,425	0 of 5	Sample
6	Minneapolis	$965,000	$4,825	0 of 5	Sample
7	Minnetonka	$1,110,000	$5,550	0 of 5	Sample
8	Plymouth	$1,375,000	$6,875	0 of 6	Sample

Hopkins

5 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$600 per unit	$120,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Per unit	$1,200 per unit	$240,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$175,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$175,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$30,000 flat	$30,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample E. NovakPermit TechnicianSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Golden Valley

6 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$850 per unit	$170,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Percent of land value	6.00% of land value	$120,000	Sample
Sewer connection	City	Per unit	$300 per unit	$60,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$180,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$180,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$40,000 flat	$40,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample M. LindqvistPlanning DirectorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Bloomington

7 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$800 per unit	$160,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Percent of land value	5.00% of land value	$100,000	Sample
Trunk area charge	City	Per acre	$12,000 per acre	$30,000	Sample
Sewer connection	City	Per unit	$350 per unit	$70,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$185,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$185,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$50,000 flat	$50,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample A. ReyesPlanning DirectorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.
Sample D. CarlsonUtility Billing SupervisorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

St. Louis Park

6 fee lines, partly published: 2 of 5 lines from a published schedule, the rest sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per SAC unit	$800 per SAC unit	$128,000	Published scheduleSource, 2026 fee schedule, effective January 1, 2026, retrieved 2026-11-07
Park dedication	City	Per unit	$1,500 per unit	$300,000	Published scheduleSource, 2026 fee schedule, effective January 1, 2026, retrieved 2026-11-07
Trunk area charge	City	Per acre	$8,000 per acre	$20,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$190,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$190,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$45,000 flat	$45,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample T. VirtanenCommunity Development DirectorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Edina

6 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$900 per unit	$180,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Percent of land value	8.00% of land value	$160,000	Sample
Water connection	City	Per unit	$400 per unit	$80,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$205,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$205,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$60,000 flat	$60,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample L. BrandtBuilding OfficialSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Minneapolis

6 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$650 per unit	$130,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Per unit	$2,500 per unit	$500,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Valuation table	$95,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$95,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$210,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$210,000	Sample
Sewer connection	City	Flat	$30,000 flat	$30,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample R. OkaforPlanning DirectorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.
Sample J. PhamUtility Billing SupervisorSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Minnetonka

7 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$1,100 per unit	$220,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Per unit	$3,000 per unit	$600,000	Sample
Trunk area charge	City	Per acre	$14,000 per acre	$35,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$200,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$200,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$55,000 flat	$55,000	Sample
Stormwater management	Watershed district	Per acre	$6,000 per acre	$15,000	Sample

Lines from Met Council and the watershed district are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample K. HalvorsenPark Planning ManagerSample contact, no outreach has occurred.
Sample S. MehtaCity EngineerSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Plymouth

8 fee lines, every line sample

Fee	Provider	Basis	Amount	On this building	Status
SAC (sewer availability charge)	Met Council	Per SAC unit	$2,485 per SAC unit	$397,600	Published scheduleSource, 2026 base unit rate, retrieved 2026-11-07
WAC (water availability charge)	City	Per unit	$1,000 per unit	$200,000	Sample
Park dedication	City	Per unit	$4,000 per unit	$800,000	Sample
Trunk area charge	City	Per acre	$16,000 per acre	$40,000	Sample
Water connection	City	Per unit	$450 per unit	$90,000	Sample
Building permit	City	Valuation table	$195,000, a flat sample amount (no construction valuation applied)	$195,000	Sample
Plan review	City	Flat	$50,000 flat	$50,000	Sample
Stormwater management	Watershed district	Per acre	$7,000 per acre	$17,500	Sample

Lines from Met Council and the watershed district are part of the stack but sit outside the city-controlled total, because the city does not set them.

Sample contacts

Sample H. DuboisCity EngineerSample contact, no outreach has occurred.
Sample P. AnandPark Planning ManagerSample contact, no outreach has occurred.

Method and sample assumptions

SAC is excluded from the ranking because Met Council's one regional rate is identical in all eight ($2,485 per SAC unit, the published 2026 base unit rate; $397,600 on this building at the sample determination, in every city), and watershed lines are excluded because the district sets them, not the city.

On the same sample 200-unit building, Hopkins carries the cheapest city-controlled stack at $565,000 ($2,825 per unit) and Plymouth the most expensive at $1,375,000 ($6,875 per unit), a spread of $810,000. No city's total is fully published: every bar rests in whole or in part on sample lines.

Sample assumptions, each a named constant: per-acre lines price a 2.5-acre sample site; percent-of-land lines apply to the sample deal's own land line of $2,000,000; the SAC determination counts 160 SAC units, the unit count times 0.8, rounded. 0.8 SAC units per apartment is a sample assumption; the Met Council SAC procedure manual sets the actual determination. Valuation-table rows are flat sample amounts; no construction valuation is applied to them.

The worked example's uses table carries $1,600,000 for City and government. Its own city, St. Louis Park, comes to $683,000 city-controlled plus $397,600 SAC, $1,080,600 in all; the remaining $519,400 is unallocated in the sample (the budget line is a sample allowance, not built from these rows).

How a row gets verified (41 sample, 10 published schedule, 0 city confirmed)

1Sample41
A structurally realistic placeholder. Never a claim about a real city.
2Published schedule10
The figure is copied from the provider's official published schedule, with the source link, the date it was read and the schedule year. Not yet confirmed with the city.
3City confirmed0
The named desk confirmed figure and method in writing for this project's specifics.

10 of 51 rows carry a published schedule, 41 are sample, and 0 are city confirmed. Published rows cite their source and retrieval date and are not yet confirmed with any city.

Outreach to a city is drafted inside Apolis and shown to a human before anything is sent to a real desk; nothing on this page contacts a city on its own. When a row climbs a rung it is replaced with a sourced one, the counts recount on their own, and the page never says more than its rows can prove.

These stacks live inside the permitting phase of the two clocks on the pipeline board, where permit and utility connection fees are a named task with an owner.