13-1393 Adding Chapter 53, Consolidation of Impact Fees

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and associated with the provision of city capital improvements needed to serve new development; and WHEREAS, the City Commission's intent is to expend the Municipal Services Impact Fees collected pursuant to this Ordinance only for the purposes for which they were collected, specifically, to defray the capital cost incurred to meet the demands imposed by growth. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION L Section 55 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Casselberry, Florida, is hereby repealed. SECTION II. Section 67 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Casselberry, Florida, is hereby repealed. SECTION III. Article XIX, Subdivision, Section 4- 19.20) of the Unified Land Development Regulations of the City of Casselberry, Florida, is hereby repealed. SECTION IV. The Code of Ordinances of the City of Casselberry, Florida, is hereby amended adding a new section to be numbered Section 53 which shall read as follows. Section 53 -1. Short Title. This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as "Impact Fees." Section 53.2. Findings of Fact, Purpose and Intent of Ordinance. It is hereby ascertained, determined and declared that: A. Both existing development and development necessitated by the growth contemplated in the comprehensive plan will require improvements and additions to the multi -modal transportation system, the city park system, law enforcement facilities, and fire and rescue facilities of the City to accommodate and maintain existing level of service standards. B. Future growth represented by capital improvement impact projects should contribute its fair share of the cost of capacity- adding improvements and additions to the multi -modal transportation system, the city park system, law enforcement facilities, and fire and rescue facilities required to accommodate capital improvement demands generated by such growth as adopted in the comprehensive plan. C. Implementation of a reasonable impact fee structure to require future capital improvement impact projects to contribute their fair share of the cost of required new capital improvement capacity is an integral and vital element of the regulatory plan of growth management incorporated in the comprehensive plan. D. The projected capital improvements and additions to the capital improvement system of the City and the allocation of projected costs between those necessary to serve existing development and those required to accommodate new capital improvement impact projects, as presented in the study entitled "Impact Fee Study," were approved and adopted via Resolution 13 -2482 by the City Commission on April 8, 2013, and such projections are found to be in conformity with the comprehensive plan. Ordinance 13 -1393 Page 3 of 18