§ 54-2. Intent, purpose and findings.

(a)

Implementation of comprehensive plan. This chapter is intended to implement and be consistent with the Citrus County Comprehensive Plan pursuant to F.S. § 163.3161 et seq., the Florida Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act.

(b)

Contribution of proportionate share. This objective is accomplished by requiring all new impact-generating land development to contribute its fair share of the funds, land, or public facilities necessary to accommodate any impacts on county facilities having a rational nexus to the proposed land development for which the need is reasonably attributable to the proposed development.

(c)

Allocation of fair share cost. This chapter is intended to be consistent with the principles for allocating a fair share of the cost of new county facilities to new users as established by the Florida Statutes, the Florida Supreme Court, and the District Courts of Appeal of Florida.

(d)

Both existing development and development resulting from growth, as contemplated by the comprehensive plan, will require improvements and additions to county facilities to accommodate and maintain the level of service adopted by the county.

(e)

Future growth represented by impact-generating land development should contribute its fair share to the cost of improvements and additions to county facilities that are required to accommodate the use of such facilities by growth. The required improvements and additions to the county facilities needed to accommodate existing development at the adopted level of service shall be financed by revenue sources other than impact fees.

(f)

Implementation of an impact fee structure to require future impact-generating land development to contribute its fair share of the cost of improvements and additions to county facilities is an integral and vital element of the management of growth.

(g)

The administrative costs imposed herein are limited to the actual costs of administration and collection of the impact fees imposed herein.

(h)

The data set forth in the impact fee technical report, which was employed in the calculation of the impact fee rates to be imposed in conformance with this [chapter], is the most recent and localized data available for the applicable county facilities as of the date of each impact fee technical report.

(i)

County facilities planning is an evolving process and the level of service adopted by the county for such county facilities constitutes a balancing of anticipated need and the corresponding cost to implement such standard, based upon present knowledge and judgment. Therefore, in recognition of changing growth patterns, the needs of the community and the dynamics of county facilities planning, it is the intent of the board that the level of service and the cost of the various county facilities be reviewed and adjusted periodically, pursuant to subsection 54-4(b)(3), to insure that the impact fees imposed pursuant to this [chapter] are equitable and lawful based on the impact of growth upon these county facilities.

(j)

This [chapter] shall not be construed to permit the collection of impact fees from impact-generating land development in excess of the amount reasonably anticipated to offset the need for and demand on those county facilities generated by such impact-generating land development.

(k)

Development necessitated by growth contemplated in the comprehensive plan and the impact fee technical report will require improvements and additions to the county facilities to accommodate the new development generated by such growth and maintain the standards of service provided by the county facilities.

(l)

The board expressly finds based on the information provided in the impact fee technical report that any improvements and additions to the county facilities funded by the impact fees will provide a benefit to all impact-generating land development in proportion to the impact fees imposed.

(m)

The imposition of the impact fees is to provide a source of revenue to fund the construction or improvement of the county facilities necessitated by growth as delineated in the capital improvement element of the comprehensive plan or the school's board's capital improvement plan.

( Ord. No. 2015-A07, § 2, 4-28-15, eff. 7-29-15 )