§ 10-321. Findings.

It is hereby ascertained, determined and declared:

(1)

Both existing development and development necessitated by the growth contemplated in the comprehensive plan will require improvements and additions to the major road network system to accommodate and maintain traffic at the level of service adopted by municipalities and the county.

(2)

Future growth, as represented by impact generating land development activity, should contribute to the cost of improvements and additions to the major road network system required to accommodate traffic generated by such growth as contemplated in the comprehensive plan.

(3)

The required improvements and additions to the major road network system needed to accommodate existing traffic at the level of service adopted by municipalities and the county shall be financed by revenue sources of municipalities and the county other than transportation impact fees.

(4)

Implementation of a transportation impact fee structure, to require future impact generating land development activity to contribute the cost of required transportation capital improvements and additions, is an integral and vital element of the regulatory plan of growth management incorporated in the comprehensive plan of the county.

(5)

The board expressly finds that improvements and additions to the major road network system provide a benefit to all impact generating land development activity within the county in excess of the transportation impact fee and the collection of transportation impact fees is the major source of funding for the county five (5) year transportation improvement program.

(6)

In recognition that transportation planning is an evolving process, it is the intent of the board that needed improvements to the major road network system be identified and evaluated periodically to insure transportation impact fee revenues are allocated to provide benefits to new development as required by law. By periodically reevaluating transportation impact fees and planned road improvements, the county can insure fees are imposed equitably and lawfully and are utilized effectively based upon actual and anticipated growth needs at the time of their imposition. Therefore, the cost of reviewing, updating, and adjusting this division is necessary to insure that transportation impact fees are imposed and administered in accordance with applicable law.

(7)

The county has a responsibility to provide and maintain all roads on the county road system in Marion County in both the unincorporated areas as well as the incorporated areas. New impact generating land development activity occurring within incorporated areas has impacts upon the county road system and state highway system within Marion County. Placing a fair share of the burden of the cost of providing the improvements and additions to the major road network system required by impact generating land development activity within incorporated areas constitutes a county purpose. In recognition of these findings, it is the intent of the board to impose the transportation impact fee on all impact generating land development activity occurring within the county, including areas within municipal boundaries.

(8)

The technical study entitled "Marion County Transportation Impact Fee Update Study" dated June 15, 2015, prepared by Tindale-Oliver and Associates, sets forth a reasonable methodology and analysis for the determination of the impact of new development on the needs for and costs of additional transportation capital facilities in Marion County.

(Ord. No. 15-14, § 1, 9-1-2015)