(a) This chapter is intended to assist in the orderly growth and development of the City, to assist in securing and providing for the coordination of fire/EMS facilities, to assist in the furtherance of the public health, safety, and welfare, by planning of efficient timely fire and medical response, and further to assist in the implementation of the City of Lancaster Land Use Plan, the City of Lancaster Fire/EMS Study (2001), and the Lancaster, Ohio Fire/EMS Impact Fee Study (April 2005).
(b) The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the use and development of land so as to assure that new development bears a proportionate share of the cost of capital expenditures necessary to provide fire and EMS response within the City.
(c) It is the general intent of this chapter to require feepayers to make payment of only the applicable fire/EMS system improvement fee, and to eliminate any additional feepayer obligation to the City or payment to the City for fire/EMS system improvements required as a result of that same land development activity. However, in the event capital improvements or expansion of the fire/EMS system are required because of unique or special characteristics of a particular land development activity or particular land development, and if such improvements or expansion are not part of a City approved Fire/EMS System Improvement project for the Fire/EMS System Improvement District in which the land development activity or land development is located, and then the full obligation to the finance and pay for all matters related to causing the construction and completion of such fire/EMS improvements or expansion shall be the sole and full obligation of the feepayer.
(Ord. 24-05. Passed 5-23-05.)