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Indian River County I Impact Fee Update Study Service Area and Population Emergency services are provided by the County in the unincorporated areas and most municipalities. The Town of Indian River Shores, however, maintains its own fire department. Therefore, the proper benefit district for emergency services is the entire county excluding the Town of Indian River Shores. For impact fee calculations, the current 2013 countywide functional population estimate, excluding Indian River Shores, is used, which is provided in Appendix A,Table A-11. Because simply using weighted population does not fully address all of the benefactors of emergency service, the "functional" weekly 24-hour population approach is used to establish a common unit of demand across different land uses (See Appendix A for further information). Level-of-Service Typically, level of service for emergency services is expressed in terms of stations per 1,000 residents for capital facility planning purposes. Using this method, IRC's current level of service (LOS) is 1 station per 11,963 residents or 0.084 stations per 1,000 residents. The County's adopted LOS standard is 0.089 stations per 1,000 residents. Since the achieved LOS is lower than the adopted LOS standard, the achieved LOS is used in the impact fee calculations. As mentioned in the previous sections, LOS needs to be measured using functional population to capture all residents, workers, and visitors that benefit from emergency services. In terms of functional population, LOS is calculated at 0.088 stations per 1,000 functional residents. Table VI-4 summarizes the calculation of the LOS standard using the 2013 population and functional population. The County has plans to add two stations over the next five years. This would result in a LOS of 0.095 stations per 1,000 residents. However, since this LOS is not yet achieved,the existing LOS is used in the impact fee calculations. Although the LOS is measured in terms of stations per population for planning purposes and in terms of response time for operational purposes, for impact fee calculation purposes, the level of service is shown as the level of investment (or dollar value of capital assets) per resident, which reflects the capacity investment made by the County for emergency services infrastructure. This figure is shown later in this section in terms of net impact cost Tindale-Oliver&Associates, Inc. Indian River County June 2014 67 Impact Fee Update Study (p 2