Northwest Florida Realtor: Proposed Impact fee ordinance amendments Destin City

PROPOSED IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS

Article 19 IMPACT FEES

19.01.00. Parks impact fee.

19.02.00. Public library impact fee.

19.03.00. Police protection impact fee.

19.04.00. Transportation Road impact fee.

19.01.00. Parks impact fee.

19.01.01. Intents and purposes.

A. Legislative findings:

1. The City Council has determined that the City of Destin must expand its park capital

facilities in order to maintain current park standards if new development is to be

accommodated without decreasing current standards. This must be done in order to

promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

2. The City Council has determined that the Florida Legislature through the enactment of

Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes, encourages local governments to adopt innovative

approaches to development.

3. The City Council has determined that the authority to adopt this ordinance is pursuant to

section 1.01.(b) of the City Charter, and Section 166.021, Florida Statutes.

4. The City Council has determined that the imposition of impact fees is one of the

preferred methods of ensuring that development bears a proportionate share of the cost of

park capital improvements necessary to accommodate such development. This must be done

in order to promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

5. The City Council has determined that each of the types of land development described in

section 19.01.05.A, will create a demand for the construction, equipping, acquisition, or

expansion of park capital improvements.

6. The City Council has determined that the fees established by section 19.01.05.A. are

derived from, based upon, and do not exceed the costs of providing additional parks and

park capital improvements necessitated by the new land developments for which the fees are

levied.

7. The City Council has determined that the report entitled "Technical Memorandum of

the Methods Used to Calculate Public Facility Costs," dated August, 8, 1997 "Impact Fee

Study for Transportation, Parks, Library and Police Facilities," dated June 2007, sets forth a

reasonable methodology and analysis for the determination of the impact of new

development on the need for and costs for additional parks and park capital improvements

in the City of Destin.

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