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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 />e mergency service, the "functional' weekly 24 hour population approach is used to <br />e stablish a common unit of demand across different land uses ISeeyAppendix A for further <br />information). <br />Level -of -Service <br />Typically, level of service for emergency services is expressed in terms of stations per 1,000 <br />104, K<; <br />residents. Usingthis method, <br />IRC's current service(=LOS) is 1 station per 11,963 <br />residents or 0.084 statioftlpe;1,000 residents TheCounty's adopted LOS standard is 0.089 <br />stations per 1,000°`residents. ;Since the °achieved LOS'S lower than the adopted LOS <br />standard, the achiev d@LOS is used in theme ct fee calculations. As mentioned in the <br />previous sections, LOS needs oto be measured using functional population to capture all <br />residents; workers and visitors that benefit from emergency services. In terms of <br />re <br />functional population is calculated at 0:088 stations per 1,000 functional residents. <br />Table VVli&`, summarizes the calculationof the LOS standard using the 2013 population and <br />functional population. <br />zga <br />Aef <br />The County has plansto add two stations over the next five years. This would result in a <br />LOS of 0 095 stations pert 000 residents. However, since this LOS is not yet achieved, the <br />e xisting LOS is used in the impact fee calculations. <br />Tindale -Oliver & Associates, Inc. Indian River County <br />January 2014 63 Impact Fee Update Study <br />