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IX. Public Education Facilities
This section discusses the analysis used in the development of the school impact fee. In
order to develop the proposed school impact fee schedule by residential unit type, 11
major elements associated with the development of a school impact fee must be
addressed. These elements include the following.
• Inventory
• Population
• Level of Service
• Cost Component
• Credit Component
• Net Impact Cost per Student
• Existing Deficiencies
• Student Generation Rate
• Proposed School Impact Fee Schedule
• Future Demand Analysis
• Estimated Revenues
These 11 elements are summarized throughout this section, with the result being the
proposed school impact fee schedule.
Inventory
According to the information provided by the School District, the Indian River County
School District operates 18 public education facilities serving pre-kindergarten through
the 12th grade. These facilities total more than 2.3 million square feet and have a
capacity of 17,617 student stations. The School District’s current inventory of school
facilities includes both permanent and relocatable student stations, i.e., student stations
housed in portable facilities. New construction of units that are separate from main
education facilities, but considered by the School District to be permanent buildings are
considered to be permanent facilities. The School District’s current inventory of school
facilities can be found in Appendix D, Table D-1.
It should be noted that the School District also operates four nontraditional schools,
including adult and alternative learning facilities, as well as five administrative and
support facilities. To ensure that the impact fee initially reflects only classroom space for
grades pre-kindergarten through the senior year of high school, adult and alternative
learning facilities and administrative and support facilities are not included in the cost
calculations. The cost of adult and alternative learning facilities could be added in
subsequent updates of the school impact fee. Therefore, for the purposes of this study,
only data pertaining to elementary, middle, and high schools will be included.
The locations of the education facilities listed in Table D-1 are also shown on Map IX-1.
Tindale-Oliver & Associates, Inc.
Indian River County
May 2005 IX-1 Impact Fee Study