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Indian River County 1 Impact Fee Update Study Service Area and Population Indian River County provides all residents, workers, and visitors the benefit of government services. As such the service area was determined to be the entire county. To be consistent with the County's Comprehensive Plan, for purposes of this technical analysis, the weighted seasonal population is used in all population estimates and projections. As mentioned previously, weighted seasonal population projections used in the impact fee analysis reflect estimates provided in the Indian River County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan for seasonal residents. In addition, public buildings is one of the program areas where functional population is used to capture the presence of all people within the community, whether residents, workers, or visitors, to arrive at a total estimate of effective population need to be served. A more detailed explanation of weighted and functional population estimates is provided in Appendix A. Level -of -Service Based on the information provided by the County, Indian River County's 2013 achieved level -of -service (LOS) is 2.80 square feet of primary facilities per weighted resident. Table IV -2 presents the calculation of the existing LOS. In addition, the adopted LOS standard is 1.99 square feet per resident. The County's Five -Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) includes the addition of approximately 10,000 square feet of public buildings space. With this additional investment, the LOS is estimated at 2.78 square feet per resident by 2017. Given that both the current and 2017 estimated LOS are higher than the adopted LOS standard, the impact fee calculations were based on the adopted LOS standard, resulting in more conservative impact fee levels. The adopted LOS standard is converted to square feet per functional resident, which resulted in 2.10 square feet per resident, as shown in Table IV -2. Although the LOS is measured in terms of building square feet per population for planning 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 public buildings infrastructure. This figure is shown later in this section in terms of net impact cost per resident for public buildings, which should be included in the Comprehensive Plan for impact fee purposes. Tindale -Oliver & Associates, Inc. Indian River County June 2014 37 Impact Fee Update Study 1'i