Santa Clara County

Tentative map review fee: $21,718 total (Minor Subdivision / tentative parcel map, 4 lots or less) — Planning base fee $14,257 + Fire Marshal review $789 + Land Development Engineering review $6,672 source · verified 2026-07

From the County's Planning Fee Schedule, FY 2026-2027 (effective July 1, 2026), linked from https://plandev.santaclaracounty.gov/fees. This is the Planning-stage 'Minor Subdivision (Four Lots or Less)' fee, i.e. the tentative-map review fee that precedes recording of a parcel map. A separate, later-stage fee also applies when the actual Parcel Map is submitted to Land Development Engineering / the County Surveyor for map-checking prior to recording: 'Subdivision Map Review – Parcel Map' totals $10,557 (FMO $789 + LDE $5,858 + Surveyor $3,910), per https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/Fees_LDE.pdf and https://stgenpln.blob.core.windows.net/document/Fees_Surveyor.pdf (same FY2026-2027 schedule set). Only the county's own fee-schedule PDFs were found as sources; no independent third-party corroboration was located, so this is single-sourced to the official schedule (all three PDFs are official documents on the same page and mutually consistent in format/date, but not independent parties).

Recording fee: See notes — the County's own pages disagree ($8.00 vs. $85.00 for the first page) source · verified 2026-07

CONFLICTING FIGURES FOUND, not resolved — flagging rather than guessing. Page 1 ('Record fees', URL above) lists a 'Map filing fee' (subdivision, parcel, survey, assessment, cemetery maps) of $8.00 first page + $2.00 each additional page. Page 2 ('Fee schedule', https://clerkrecorder.santaclaracounty.gov/resources/fee-schedule) lists 'Maps (Government Code §27372)' at $85.00 first page + $2.00 additional page. The underlying statute (Gov. Code §27372, per leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) sets a $5 first-page / $2 additional-page base fee for subdivision maps; county fee-schedule pages commonly layer on additional statutory surcharges (e.g., microfilm/archival fees), which could explain a modest increase over $5 but does not obviously reconcile to either $8 or $85. Recommend confirming the current first-page map recording fee directly with the Clerk-Recorder's Office (408-299-5688) before publishing a specific number.

Tentative map review fee: $11,688 total for a tentative map/parcel map up to 10 lots — $10,439 base + $1,249 Citywide Planning Fee (plus interdepartmental referral fees, e.g. $325 DOT review + $395 Fire review) source · verified 2026-07

From the City's Planning Fee Schedule, effective August 11, 2025 (still current as of this July 2026 check). This is the Planning Division's Tentative Map/Amendment fee bracket ('Up to 10 lots'), which applies whether the map will ultimately record as a Parcel Map (1-4 lots) or Tract Map (5+ lots). A separate, later-stage Public Works fee applies once an approved Tentative Map moves to actual Parcel Map preparation/checking: 'Parcel Map with a Tentative Map' = $8,306 per map, per the Public Works Permit Fee Schedule (effective 8/11/2025), https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/33099/639011345163800000 (direct download blocked by the city's bot protection when fetched programmatically; content verified via a text-extraction proxy of the same URL). Both fee documents are official City of San José PDFs with the same effective date, but no independent third-party source corroborates the dollar amounts, so treat as single-sourced to the city.

Recording fee: No separate city recording fee — Parcel/Tract Maps and Final Maps for San José subdivisions record with the Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder, same as county-level filings source · verified 2026-07

See the county-level recordingFee entry above for the (currently conflicting) county map-filing fee amounts.