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How much does it cost to subdivide land in Fremont County?
The fixed county fees are knowable: a $495.00 General Class II permit — the class a subdivision application falls under — plus $195.00 county surveyor review per final phase and a $20.00 address-assignment fee, from the county's adopted fee schedule (Resolution 2011-16, retrieved 19 August 2026). What the schedule never prices is what actually costs: the improvements. (208) 656-1516.
What does the county's fee schedule actually price?
A subdivision application is a Class II permit in the county's system — the Development Code's own list in section 3.02.030 puts land splits and subdivisions in that class. The adopted fee schedule prices that class and the procedures around it. Here is every row a subdivision applicant is likely to touch, exactly as the schedule prints it:
| Procedure | Fee | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| General Class II Permit | $495.00 | The subdivision application class |
| County surveyor review | $195.00 | Charged per final phase |
| Variance | $295.00 | Plus notification fees — amounts not published |
| Appeal of the Administrator to the Commission | $495.00 | If a decision gets appealed |
| Appeal of the Commission to the Board | $750.00 | The second rung |
| Zone change, site specific | $295.00 | If the plat needs one |
| Certificate of legal non-conforming use | $195.00 | |
| Address assignation and issuance | $20.00 | |
| Research and other services | $45.00 hourly |
— Fremont County Planning and Building Department Fee Schedule, Resolution 2011-16 Exhibit A, effective July 1, 2011; retrieved 19 August 2026.
How much weight can a 2011 schedule carry? Some, not all. The county's Pre-Construction Check List, revised 17 April 2026, still charges $50.00 for the site plan review — the same amount the 2011 resolution prints on its single-family line. That corroborates one line, not all of them. The same checklist confirms a deposit is due at submittal without publishing the amount. Treat every row above as the adopted schedule as retrieved, and confirm current amounts at the desk before budgeting against them.
What moves the number?
- Phases. Surveyor review bills per final phase — a phased plat pays it again with each phase. Phasing itself is a genuine permission, not a loophole: "Applicants may elect to record final plats of the Application project in phases and/or offer phases of the application for lease, sale, or occupancy before all required improvements are installed. Phasing shall be permitted pursuant to an improvement agreement..." (Fremont County Development Code section 8.07.020, retrieved 1 September 2026).
- Variances and appeals. A variance is $295.00 plus notification fees the county does not publish; an appeal to the Commission is $495.00 and to the Board $750.00. An application that stays inside the code skips all three rows.
- The improvements — the unpriced majority. The code lists what counts as a required improvement — roads including bridges, culverts and street signs, utilities including line extensions, runoff and erosion measures including plantings, open space, buffers, parking — and prices none of it in dollars. Under the improvement agreement the applicant must guarantee "completion, repair, and one year's maintenance of all required improvements in the initial phases." A budget built from the fee table alone is missing its largest part. (What the agreement must contain: what a phased subdivision guarantees.)
- Site-specific add-ons. Where public water is not available, the wildfire appendix requires a dry hydrant at a satisfactory water source within three miles of the proposed subdivision if one is not already there — a real cost with no county price tag (wildfire-sensitive areas). And each proposed public utility must certify capacity in writing before the plat — the cost of that work sits with the utilities, not the fee schedule (what the plat says about utilities).
- The schedule's own vintage. A 2011 resolution with exactly one line corroborated by a 2026 form is evidence, not certainty. The confirm step below is cheap.
How do you get a real number?
- Call Planning & Building: Fremont County Courthouse, 151 West 1st North, St. Anthony, (208) 624-7200.
- Ask whether Resolution 2011-16 is still the schedule in force — the one question that settles every row above.
- Ask the deposit amount due at submittal — confirmed to exist by the April 2026 checklist, amount not published.
- If a variance is likely, ask what the notification fees run — the schedule names them but prices nothing.
- Write the answers down with the date and the name of who gave them; you will be quoting them to a surveyor later.
For a read of what the improvements side will actually cost on a specific parcel — roads, utilities, the guarantee — call or text (208) 656-1516.
Common questions
What does a subdivision application cost in Fremont County?
The adopted schedule prices a General Class II Permit at $495.00 — the class the Development Code's section 3.02.030 assigns to subdivisions — per Resolution 2011-16 Exhibit A, retrieved 19 August 2026. Confirm current amounts with Planning & Building before relying on any row.
Is the Class II fee the only county charge?
No. County surveyor review is $195.00 per final phase, a variance is $295.00 plus unpublished notification fees, appeals run $495.00 and $750.00 by rung, a site-specific zone change is $295.00, address assignation and issuance is $20.00, and research or other staff services bill at $45.00 hourly.
Does the county price the roads and utilities?
No. The code requires the improvements and lists their categories, and the improvement agreement must guarantee completion, repair and one year's maintenance — but no dollar amounts appear anywhere in the adopted text. Those numbers come from contractors and utilities, not the fee schedule.
Do the fees repeat if I phase the subdivision?
County surveyor review is charged per final phase, so a phased plat pays it again each phase. Phasing itself is permitted under an improvement agreement per Development Code section 8.07.020.
Is the 2011 fee schedule still in force?
As far as published documents show, it is the adopted schedule — retrieved 19 August 2026 — and the county's Pre-Construction Check List revised 17 April 2026 corroborates the $50.00 site-plan line. That is corroboration of one line, not proof of the schedule. Ask Planning & Building directly.
Who confirms all of this for my project?
Fremont County Planning & Building, at the courthouse, 151 West 1st North, St. Anthony, (208) 624-7200 — the authoritative source for every figure on this page.
Related reading: What a phased subdivision guarantees · The master plan rule and your covenants · What the plat says about utilities · What does a Fremont County building permit cost · The 2005 permit fee schedule · Class one and class two permits · Contact: (208) 656-1516