A. Pursuant to this chapter, impact fees may be spent for fire protection facilities and fire protection system improvements that will reasonably benefit the new development, including, but not limited to, architectural and/or engineering design studies, land surveys, land acquisition, engineering, permitting, financing, administrative expenses, relocatable facilities, capital equipment, construction, site improvements, necessary off-site improvements, applicable impact fees or mitigation costs and other expenses which could be capitalized, and which are consistent with the City’s Capital Facilities Plan.

B. Impact fees shall be expended or encumbered on a first-in, first-out basis.

C. Impact fees may be used to recoup costs for system improvements previously incurred by the City to the extent that new growth and development will be served by the previously constructed system improvements.

D. In the event that bonds or similar debt instruments are or have been issued for the advanced provision of system improvements, impact fees may be used to pay debt service on such bonds or similar debt instruments to the extent that system improvements provided are consistent with the requirements of this chapter and are used to serve the new development. (Ord. 3037, 10/24/23)