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Services provided by County-owned and operated public facilities support the entire
county. Therefore, the proper benefit district for public buildings is countywide. The
countywide functional population estimate is provided in Section II, Table II-14.
Level of Service
The current level of service (LOS) for public buildings is determined by dividing the
square footage of County-owned buildings that provide countywide services by the
countywide 2004 functional population figure based on a 55-hour week, provided in
Section II, Table II-14. This information results in a current LOS of 2.40 square feet of
public building space per functional resident, as calculated in Table V-4. In addition, in
terms of the resident (permanent plus seasonal) population, the current LOS is 1.99
building square feet per person.
Table V-4
Current Level of Service (2004)
Square Feet (1)
Year 2004
Functional Building Square Feet IRC Countywide Building Square Feet
Residents (2) per Functional Resident (3) Population (4) per Resident (5)
275,704 114,957 2.40 138,393 1.99
(1) Source: Table V-1
(2) Source: Section II, Table II-14
(3) Total square footage (Item 1) divided by the countywide 2004 11-hour functional population
(Item 2).
(4) Source: Chapter II, Table II-1
(5) Total square footage (Item 1) divided by the countywide 2004 population (Item 4).
The County’s Comprehensive Plan does not include a LOS standard for public buildings.
Therefore, the existing LOS will be used as the public building LOS standard. For this
LOS to become the standard, the Comprehensive Plan will be amended to include this
standard for public buildings.
Table V-5 presents a comparison of IRC’s LOS standard with the LOS standards of other
counties. It is important to note that the LOS figures for other counties reflect building
space owned by the county and not necessarily the total square footage that is required to
serve the residents. In other words, leased space used to house some of the county
departments is not included in the inventory. Further, IRC’s standard reflects both
permanent and seasonal population.
Tindale-Oliver & Associates, Inc.
Indian River County
May 2005 V-6 Impact Fee Study