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WHEREAS, on October 5, 2000, the Commission adopted the Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, the findings of the Impact Fees Report relating to impact fee assumptions, residential, non-residential and transient development projections; capital improvements and the cost thereof; and impact fee calculations have been incorporated into the Impact Fees Manual, which is contained in Exhibit "A" of this Resolution; and WHEREAS, based on the population, housing units and land use projections as well as the public facility needs associated with the projected level of growth, the Commission has determined that impact fees continue to be an appropriate and necessary technique, to be used in conjunction with other available public facility financing techniques, to ensure that adequate public facilities are provided to new growth; and WHEREAS, the Commission has determined that impact fees will continue to be necessary for parks and recreation facilities and vehicles and police facilities and vehicles, and is necessary to now impose impact fees for general municipal facilities and vehicles and the existing interim impact fees for parks and recreation facilities and police services should be repealed; and WHEREAS, the Commission has found and determined, after extensive study by consultants, that impact fees for different public purposes will have certain common characteristics and that the City will, therefore, benefit from the adoption and use of a uniform procedure for the imposition, calculation, collection, expenditure and administration of all of the adopted impact fees; and WHEREAS, the use of uniform procedures, to the extent possible, will be more efficient and expedient for both the City and applicants for building permits than separate procedures for each impact fee; and WHEREAS, the use of uniform procedures will simplify the implementation and administration of impact fees; and WHEREAS, the use of uniform procedures will best ensure that impact fees are "earmarked" and expended for the public purposes for which they were imposed and collected and will be contained in the imposition ordinances; and WHEREAS, all monies collected from impact fees shall be deposited in an interest- bearing account which clearly identifies the category, account, fund and public facility or improvement for which such fee was imposed; and WHEREAS, each such category, fund or account shall be accounted for separately; provided, however, that the determination as to whether the accounting requirement shall be by category, account or fund and whether by aggregate or individual development shall be within the discretion of the City; and Impact Fees Resolution 2