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• <br />8 <br />• <br />Indian River County 1 Impact Fee Update Study <br />Service Area and Population <br />Emergency services are provided by the County in the unincorporated areas and most <br />municipalities. The Town of Indian River Shores, however, maintains its own fire <br />department. Therefore, the proper benefit district for emergency services is the entire <br />county excluding the Town of Indian River Shores. For impact fee calculations, the current <br />2013 countywide functional population estimate, excluding Indian River Shores, is used, <br />which is provided in Appendix A, Table A-11. - <br />Because simply using weighted population does not, fully.,address all of the benefactors of <br />•emergency service, the "functional" weekly 24-hour population approach is used to <br />establish a common unit of demand across different land uses'(See,Appendix A for further <br />information). <br />Level -of -Service <br />ti <br />Typically, level of service for emergency services is expressed in terms of stations per 1,000 <br />residents. Using this method, IRC's current level of service '(LOS) is 1 station per 11,963 <br />rY>. <br />residents or 0.084 stations. per- 1,000 residents. The County's adopted LOS standard is 0.089 <br />stations per 1,000 :residents.. Since the ,achieved LOS-- is lower than the adopted LOS <br />standard, the achieved -.:LOS is used in the impact fee calculations. As mentioned in the <br />previous sections; LOS needs<to. be measured using functional population to capture all <br />residents_, .,worker`s," and visitors that benefit from emergency services. In terms of <br />functional population;;_ LOS is calculated at 0:088 stations per 1,000 functional residents. <br />Table VI=4;summarizes thecalculation,of the LOS standard using the 2013 population and <br />functional population. <br />The County has plansto add:two` stations over the next five years. This would result in a <br />LOS of 0.095 stations 'per' -'1000 residents. However, since this LOS is not yet achieved, the <br />existing LOS is used in theimpact fee calculations. <br />Tindale -Oliver & Associates, Inc. Indian River County <br />January 2014 63 Impact Fee Update Study <br />