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title: "Check whether a processing fee and an impact fee can both be imposed"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/planning-and-environment/check-whether-a-fixed-levy-can-be-imposed-alongside-another-contribution/united-states"
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practice_area: "Planning & Environment"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
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# Check whether a processing fee and an impact fee can both be imposed

> From the approval and the fee schedule the lawyer supplies, record each fee, whether the papers call it a processing fee or an impact fee, the amount, and the purpose stated for it.…

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Planning & Environment](https://ailawframework.com/practice/planning-and-environment.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the approval and the fee schedule the lawyer supplies, record each fee, whether the papers call it a processing fee or an impact fee, the amount, and the purpose stated for it. Do not treat one fee as barring the other. Do not calculate a new amount. |
| What the lawyer must review | The lawyer tests each fee under its own rule. The department page says a housing development is typically subject to both permit processing fees and impact fees or exactions imposed to defray public costs of the project. California Government Code section 66001, which was opened, is the impact-fee rule: purpose, use, the relationship of the use to the type of development, the relationship of the need for the facility to the type of development, and the relationship of the amount to the cost attributable to the development. The department page states that Government Code section 66020 requires planning and permit processing fees not to exceed the reasonable cost of providing the service or impact, unless the voters approve, and requires a statement of the amounts and purposes of all fees when the fee is imposed or the project is approved. Section 66020 itself was not opened, so that sentence is the department account and not the code text. The page does not say that imposing one fee prohibits the other. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Check whether a fixed levy can be imposed alongside another contribution](https://ailawframework.com/practice/planning-and-environment/check-whether-a-fixed-levy-can-be-imposed-alongside-another-contribution.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: From the approval and the fee schedule the lawyer supplies, record each fee, whether the papers call it a processing fee or an impact fee, the amount, and the purpose stated for it. Do not treat one fee as barring the other. Do not calculate a new amount.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- This is California. Other states differ. Do not copy a rule that two contribution conditions cannot appear on the same approval.
- Section 66014, which the department page also mentions, was not opened.

## Sources

- [California Government Code section 66001](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&sectionNum=66001.) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [California Department of Housing and Community Development, fees and exactions](https://www.hcd.ca.gov/housing-element/building-blocks/constraints-fees) (checked 2026-10-22)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*