§ 6-2. Legislative findings.

The city council finds, determines, and declares that:

(1)

In order to maintain current level of service standards for police, fire/rescue, and parks and recreation facilities, the city must expand its capital improvements system so that new development may be accommodated without decreasing current level of service standards. Expansion of the capital improvement system to accommodate new growth shall promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of the city.

(2)

The state, through the enactment of F.S. § 163.31801, has authorized the city to enact reasonable impact fees to meet the capital improvements needs created by new development.

(3)

The imposition of impact fees is one of the preferred methods of ensuring that new development bears a proportionate share of the cost of capital improvements necessary to accommodate such development. Allocation of a proportionate share of costs promotes and protects the public health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of the city.

(4)

Each of the types of land uses described in the fee schedule hereof will create demands for the acquisition of, or expansion of, police, fire/rescue, and parks and recreation facilities and capital improvements.

(5)

The report entitled "City of Tavares, Impact Fee Study," prepared by Tindale-Oliver and Associates, and dated September 12, 2006, sets forth a reasonable methodology and analysis for the determination of the impact of new development on the need for and costs of additional capital improvements in the city.

(6)

The terms of this article ensure that new development subject to the payment of an impact fee will receive a substantial and proportionate benefit from the provision of capital improvements funded with impact fees collected pursuant to this article.

(Ord. No. 2007-02, 2-21-07)