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- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers removing that cap on the rescue side. We're on both sides, fire and rescue. So the total impact fees are shown here, and that formatting is a little weird, so it's hard to see the uh the total fee there. Six hundred and seventy-four dollars for residential combined between fire and uh rescue, and that's a total of a sixty percent increase over the existing fees. This is a chart of all of the impact fees in the county's impact fee schedule as compared to some other regional counties. Since this fee that both the fire and the EMS are a smaller portion of the overall impact fee that the county charges, it doesn't substantially move you in placement in the survey. The larger fees that are really gonna motivate that are the school's impact fee, the transportation impact fee, part of the easy. Parks and Rec, et cetera. So you stay in the same place in in terms uh in in relation to your neighbors.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers So um To start out, and I'm sure you are all very aware of what impact fees are, but we do like to give a brief overview of impact fees. are used for capital costs only to fund expansion-related capital costs. That's an important distinction there. So capital facilities that are necessitated by growth. Without impact fees. Impact fees are totally a policy decision. So you can choose to not have them, or have them, or choose to have them at a lower cost recovery level. Without the use of impact fees, the necessary facilities may not be constructed to keep up with growth, or they may be funded from other sources such as taxpayer revenues. A little background, the chief had already reviewed with you guys the current fee combined between fire and rescue service is $420 per dwelling unit. On the non-residential side, it is per thousand square feet, and currently there is a cap that exists in the county's ordinance that caps Non-residential development at 50,000 square feet. That's an unusual cap in my experience. I haven't seen that around the state before. So part of our suggestions and recommendations here
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers P Thanks, Chief. Good afternoon, Commissioners. Uh I have a brief presentation summarizing the results of our impact fee study. Um, I'm sorry. Peter Napley with Santec Consulting based in Tampa, Florida. Uh work with counties and cities across the state on impact fee studies and all Also these extraordinary circumstances workshops, I'm very familiar with and have conducted some in the local area recently.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers Unidentified A: So you can't waive fee. You can't waive an impact fee. You can reimburse it from another funding source. No, I understand, sir. But
- R33BCC Direction on Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Discussion
Weightman I think no, I know that. I'm not overly excited to increase the impact fee. The net impact fee. But by doing this, but I am intr I would be interested to take a closer look at the structure of the impact fee and what maybe needs updated or you know
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers today is to remove that cap and assess all of the square footage of non-residential development with impact fees. So the reason for the extraordinary circumstances workshop and I believe uh you have as a county gone through this recently, so I don't need to go into too much detail. Um and also the chief already highlighted the demonstrated need both from high population growth, uh construction cost increases. Another one is the duration of time since the last uh this impact fee has been updated. So it's been over 20 years since this impact fee has been looked at. That's often used as a justification for exceeding the limitations.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers Good afternoon, Commissioner. Ryan Gwen, Pasco County Fire Chief. Uh R 44 FR251620 is a second workshop dedicated to the extraordinary circumstances necessitating the need for the fire rescue, fire combat, and fire rescue rescue service impact fee to exceed the phasing limitations of sections 163.318016BC and D of the Florida statutes. Substatutes limits impact fee increases to 50% of current impact fee rate and requires impact fee increases up to this amount to be limited in in a two or four-year incrementation. uh phasing limitations, but it also allows for local government to exceed the phasing limitations if the local government demonstrates the extraordinary circumstances necessitating this need. um we can exceed that phase in limits. So because uh Well fire rescue is proposing a fire combat and rescue service impact fee increase that will exceed the phasing limitations. We um we have to do these workshops and
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers Unidentified A: Okay. And I'll ask the consultant, you you don't see a drop in service level for the for the capital things at the impact fee at a certain point. In Square footage.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers kinda unprecedented unfortunate and and um for another example, a recent hospital that just opened up in the Wesley Chapel area, they paid twenty seven thousand dollars in impact fee. Without the commercial cap there's would have been a hundred and seventy nine thousand.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers Unidentified A: A million, a million. Starkey: A million square feet. Unidentified A: The targeted yes ma'am. Starkey: Yeah, so what would their fire impact fee be?
- Senate Bill 180 fire rescue impact fee
Several speakers Starkey: Okay. Um you know we talked about a law enforcement or whatever we're calling it, impact fee.
- R44(To Be Heard Before P51) Second Workshop Dedicated to the Extraordinary Circumstances Necessitating the Need for the Fire Rescue Fire Combat and Rescue Service Impact Fee Increase to Exceed the Phase-In Limitations in Sections 163.31801(6)(b), (c), and (d), Florida Statutes
Several speakers But um We did some slight comparisons just for um reference. So like a Walmart distribution center like the one represented in Zephyrhills. Um their current impact fee they paid were twenty six thousand. This proposal would bring 'em up to about twenty eight thousand. Um such as