A. This title is adopted to be consistent with, and to help implement the Capital Improvements Plan.
B. The intent of this title is to ensure that new 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 used for System Improvements in accordance with the Act.
C. It is the further intent of this title to be consistent with those principles for allocating a fair share of the cost of System Improvements to new Development, and for adopting development impact fee ordinances, established by the Act.
D. It is not the intent of this title to collect any money from any new Development more than the actual amount necessary to offset new demands for System Improvements created by such new Development.
E. It is the intent of this title that any monies collected, as imposed Impact Fees, are deposited in the appropriate Impact Fees Capital Projects Trust Fund account, are never commingled with monies from a different impact fee account, are never used for a development impact fee component different from that for which the fee was paid, are never used to correct current deficiencies in any district’s, with which the County has entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement pursuant to I.C. § 67-8204A, Capital Facilities, and are never used to replace, rehabilitate, maintain or operate any Capital Facilities.
(Ord. 2024-01, 10-16-2023)