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Council supports full fire impact‑fee update after consultants detail station and apparatus needs
Summary
City consultants recommended raising fire impact fees to pay for new stations and apparatus tied to response‑time goals; council gave consensus to pursue the full calculated fees under an extraordinary‑circumstances rationale.
City consultants presented a fire impact fee study that combines the city’s existing fire‑department investment with planned station and apparatus projects through the next 10 years and recommended higher fees to recover growth‑related capacity costs.
Sean Ocasio, senior manager at the consultant firm, said the study used local asset inventories, recent call‑volume data and the city’s 10‑year capital plan to distribute costs between existing and new development. He noted an approach that blends existing investment with future needs reduces the fee compared with a purely incremental (forward‑looking) method but still produced…
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