Miramar, FL Accessory Structures: ADU Impact Fees (2026)

Land Development Code § 405.1.6(l), titled "Impact Fees," is a single sentence that governs the financial side of adding an ADU in Miramar: "Impact fees shall be assessed for the police and fire protection, water and sewer capacity, and park and recreation fees that are created by the additional unit." The section does not set a dollar figure in the LDC itself; instead it directs that the ADU be treated as an additional dwelling unit for purposes of the city's standard impact-fee schedule, meaning the same categories of fee applied to any new residential unit, police and fire protection, water and sewer capacity, and parks and recreation, apply to the ADU because it adds a household's worth of demand on those services even though it sits on an already-developed lot.

This fee sits on top of, not instead of, every other § 405.1.6 requirement: the one-unit-per-lot cap, the 1,200-square-foot size ceiling, the two-story height limit and the setback and parking standards all still apply regardless of the fee owed. Because the impact fee is assessed per unit created rather than per square foot, a compact 300-square-foot ADU and a maximum 1,200-square-foot ADU are both charged under the same fee categories, though the exact amounts are set by the city's separately adopted impact fee ordinance and fee schedule rather than fixed within § 405.1.