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Typical new home buyer paying $3,472 to replace farmland
Buy a typical new home in Manteca and you’ll be paying at least $3,472 to preserve farmland.
It doesn’t show up as an itemized cost. Rather it is a fee that developers are required to pay on a per acre basis that is collapsed into the price of homes they sell along with growth fees for roads and parks, school fees, sewer and water connections that can run in excess of $40,000 for a typical home in Manteca. That is on top of the price of the land and developing it. Then there is the additional cost of building the actual home.