1. This Impact Fees Ordinance is promulgated pursuant to the requirements of the Utah Impact Fees Act. This Ordinance establishes impact fees for public safety facilities within Lindon City, and describes certain capital improvements to be funded in part by impact fees, provides a schedule of impact fees for differing types of land-use development, and sets forth direction for challenging and appealing these impact fees.

2. In enacting and approving the Fire Impact Fee Facilities Plan/Impact Fee Analysis and the Police Impact Fee Facilities Plan/Impact Fee Analysis, the Lindon City Council has taken into consideration, and in certain situations will consider on a case-by-case basis in the future, the future capital facilities and public safety needs of Lindon City, the capital financial needs of Lindon City which are the result of Lindon City's future facilities needs, the distribution of the burden of costs to different properties within Lindon City based on the use of public safety services and the corresponding facilities of Lindon City by such properties, the financial contribution of those properties and other properties similarly situated in Lindon City at the time of computation of the required fee and prior to the enactment of this Ordinance, all revenue sources available to Lindon City, and the impact on future public safety facilities that will be required by growth and new development activities in Lindon City.

3. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the purpose and intent of the Lindon City Council in establishing the Public Safety Impact Fees Ordinance.