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SCOPE OF SERVICES INDIAN RIVER COUNTY IMPACT FEE UPDATE INTRODUCTION: Indian River County is located on south central Florida's eastern coast. With a current population of approximately 140,000,the County has an urbanized coastal area and a rural western area. There are five incorporated municipalities in the County. These municipalities occupy approximately ten percent of the County's land area and accommodate less than thirty-five percent of the total County population. Consistent with this trend, most of the County's growth is occurring in the unincorporated area. In the last several decades, the County's growth rate has been significant. After exceeding 50% in the 1980s, the County's growth exceeded 20% in both the 1990s and 2000s. To address the infrastructure costs associated with new growth, the County instituted a countywide traffic impact fee program in 1986. Also in the 1980's, the County instituted water and sewer capacity charges within the County's water and sewer service area. Because of the amount of growth and development, the Board of County Commissioners, in 2005, approved impact fees for eight additional service/facility categories. These categories are: • Correctional Facilities • Solid Waste Facilities • Public Education Facilities • Libraries • Fire/Emergency Services • Law Enforcement • Public Buildings • Parks Unlike many counties, Indian River County has an impact fee system that includes all five of the County's municipalities. Through interlocal agreements with the County, the municipalities collect impact fees within their jurisdictions and transmit those fees to the County. To cover that cost, the municipalities receive a portion of the impact fee administration charge. While some of the County's impact fees (traffic, corrections, solid waste, education, public buildings, and libraries) are imposed countywide, one fee (fire/EMS) is imposed countywide except for the Town of Indian River Shores (Indian River Shores is the only municipality that does not participate in the County's Emergency Service District). The other fees (law enforcement and parks) are imposed only in the unincorporated county. According to the Indian River County Impact Fee Ordinance, the county will, every three years, review and update its impact fees and change the fee schedules to reflect current economic and development conditions. Since the last impact fee review was performed in 2009, the county is again required to update its impact fees at this time. 105