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(I) Article VIII, Section 2(b) of the Florida Constitution and Section 166.02 I of the Florida Statues grant the City of Casselberry broad home rule powers necessary to carry on municipal govemment. (2) Section 163.3202(3) of the Florida Statutes encourages the use of innovative land development regulations which include the use of impact fees to implement the goals, objectives and policies of the City's Comprehensive Plan. (3) Growth in residential and non-residential properties has occurred and is expected to continue to occur in the areas that are provided municipal services by the City. (4) Growth within the Service Area has resulted in the need to expand municipal services to accommodate the demands imposed by such growth without decreasing the current level of municipal services at the cost of existing users. (5) Expansion of municipal services to accommodate new growth shall promote and protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the residents of Casselberry. (6) In order for future growth to pay more equitably the cost of expanding municipal services to meet the demands imposed by such growth, the City Commission finds that the adoption of Municipal Services Impact Fees, to be levied as one-time charges upon new developments within the City or new demand on the system created through expansions or renovations, is an appropriate and equitable method of capital cost recovery. (7) The intent of the Municipal Services Impact Fees is to recover only the pro rata share of the costs incurred to meet the demands of growth. (8) The report entitled "Municipal Impact Fee Study", dated January 10, 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 municipal services capital facilities related to police and fire rescue services in the City of Casselberry. (9) The City Commission has received and accepted the Municipal Impact Fee Study dated January 10,2006 and all subsequent schedules and analysis (the "Impact Fee Study") prepared by Public Resources Management Group, Inc. (10) The Impact Fee Study sets forth the calculations and basis for the impact fees utilized and associated with the provision of police and fire rescue services. (I I) The City Commission's intent is to expend the Municipal Services Impact Fees collected pursuant to this article only for the purposes for which they were collected, specifically, to defray the capital cost incurred to meet the demands imposed by growth. (I2) In order to equitably distribute the proportionate fair share of new municipal services on new developments within the City of Casselberry that create the need for such municipal services, it serves the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the City of Ordinance 06-1 J 79 Page 2 of II