A. Short title: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Gem County Development Impact Fee Ordinance.
B. Findings: The Board of Gem County Commissioners finds that:
1. Within unincorporated Gem County, the County is experiencing considerable growth and development.
2. The new growth and development occurring within unincorporated Gem County will place ever-increasing demands on the county to provide, improve and expand existing public facilities to serve that new growth and development and the tax revenues generated from that new growth and development often does not generate sufficient funds to provide the necessary improvements and expansion of the public facilities to protect the public health, safety and welfare. Those users that create the increased demand should bear their proportionate share of the cost of public facilities needed to serve the new growth and development.
C. Authority: This title is enacted pursuant to the county's general police powers, its authority to enact ordinances, and its authority as provided by the act and other applicable laws of the State of Idaho to impose and collect development impact fees when affected by growth and development for the purpose of agreeing to impose, collect and expend development impact fees in order for new growth and development to pay their proportionate share of the cost of public facilities to serve that new growth and development.
D. Applicability: This chapter shall apply to the development of property located within the boundaries of unincorporated Gem County
E. Purpose: The intent of this chapter is to ensure that new residential and non-residential development bears a proportionate share of the cost of system improvements; to ensure that such proportionate share does not exceed the cost of such system improvements required to accommodate new development; and to ensure that funds collected from new development are actually used for system improvements in accordance with the Act. (Ord. 2021-10,-23-2021)