Jefferson County |
Code of Ordinances |
CODE OF ORDINANCES |
Chapter 19. IMPACT FEES |
Article II. FIRE RESCUE IMPACT FEES |
§ 19-30. Legislative findings applicable to fire rescue impact fees.
The board of county commissioners hereby finds, determines and declares that:
(1)
The county fire rescue system benefits all residents of the county and, therefore, the fire rescue impact fee shall be imposed in all unincorporated areas of the county and within all municipalities that consent to the imposition of the fire rescue impact fee within their municipal boundaries and which participate in the county fire rescue system.
(2)
Development necessitated by the growth contemplated in the comprehensive plan and the fire rescue impact fee study will require improvements and additions to the county fire rescue system to accommodate the new development generated by such growth and maintain the standards of service provided by the county.
(3)
Future growth, as represented by fire rescue impact construction, should contribute its fair share to the cost of improvements and additions to the county fire rescue system that are required to accommodate the impact generated by such growth.
(4)
The required improvements and additions to the county fire rescue system needed to eliminate any deficiencies shall be financed by revenue sources of the county other than fire rescue impact fees.
(5)
Implementation of the fire rescue impact fee to require future fire rescue impact construction within the county to contribute its fair share to the cost of required capital improvements and additions is an integral and vital element of the regulatory plan of growth management of the county.
(6)
The board of county commissioners expressly finds that the improvements and additions to the county fire rescue system funded by the fire rescue impact fee provide a benefit to all fire rescue impact construction within the county in excess of the amount of the fire rescue impact fee.
(7)
The purpose of this article is to require payment of fire rescue impact fees by those who engage in fire rescue impact construction and to provide for the cost of capital improvements to the county fire rescue system which are required to accommodate such growth. this chapter shall not be construed to permit the collection of fire rescue impact fees in excess of the amount reasonably anticipated to offset the demand on the county fire rescue system generated by such applicable fire rescue impact construction.
(8)
The imposition of a fire rescue impact fee is to provide a source of revenue to fund the construction or improvement of the county fire rescue system necessitated by growth as delineated in the capital improvement element of the comprehensive plan.
(9)
The data set forth in the fire rescue impact fee study which was employed in the calculation of the fire rescue impact fee rates imposed herein is the most recent and localized data available for the county fire rescue system.
(10)
The administrative fee set forth in section 19-35(f) constitutes the county's actual costs for collection of the fire rescue impact fee including the actual costs related to the administration and the collection process.
(Ord. No. 02-21-08-01, § 2.02, 2-21-2008)