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FUTURE FIRE STATION ANALYSIS
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
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The Board is asked to accept the Future Fire Station Analysis, which looks at the existing Levels of Service and future growth in the western areas of Martin County.
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DEPARTMENT: Fire Rescue
PREPARED BY: Name: Lisa A. Wichser, P.E., CFM
Title: Chief Project Engineer
REQUESTED BY: Don G. Donaldson, P.E., CFM, County Administrator
PRESET: 10:30 AM
PROCEDURES: None
BACKGROUND/RELATED STRATEGIC GOAL:
Goal 14.1 of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan is, "To use sound fiscal policies to provide adequate public facilities concurrent with, or prior to, development in order to achieve and maintain adopted standards for levels of service and to exceed the adopted standards, when possible..." The adopted level of service for Fire-Rescue is 8 minutes 90% of the time in urban areas and 20 minutes 90% of the time in rural areas. The Fire-Rescue staff has identified several unfunded capital needs in the FY25 Capital Improvement Program:
1) adding a new fire station to serve the currently underserved and future growth in the western Palm City area;
2) relocating a fire station from inside the Indiantown Governmental Facility to better serve future growth; and
3) relocating a fire station from the Tropical Farms residential neighborhood to better serve future growth.
Metro Forecasting Models (MFM) was contracted by the County in January 2020 to provide continuing planning and consulting services using a special land use model, known as the Interactive Growth Model. Under this contract, MFM was retained to use existing Calls for Service types and locations, the capacity to respond to calls, and local input to develop a drive-time analysis of the existing fire stations and to help determine the optimal location to serve the existing population and future growth. MFM has prepared the Draft Fire Station Analysis for the Board's consideration. In...
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