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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 13, 2012 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. tc� –(a— <br />SUBJECT: Approval of the Construction of Orange Grove Fire Stations #2 and #3 in the <br />Cane Creek Fire District <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Cane Creek Insurance District Map <br />2. Orange Grove Fire Station, Nicks <br />Road & Rocky Ridge Road <br />Substations Map <br />3. Powerpoint Presentation from the <br />Orange Grove Fire Department dated <br />January 25, 2012 <br />4. February 14, 2012 Emergency <br />Services Workgroup Meeting Notes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />F. R. Montes de Oca, 245 -6100 <br />Annette Moore, 245 -2317 <br />Michael Talbert, 245 -2153 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the recommendation from the Emergency Services Workgroup to <br />proceed with the construction of Orange Grove Fire Stations #2 and #3 in the Cane Creek Fire <br />District. <br />BACKGROUND: On September 13, 2011 the Board was presented options for changing fire <br />districts to improve insurance ratings for the 1,156 properties located outside of six road miles <br />from the closest fire station located in their fire insurance district. <br />Over 650 homes in the Cane Creek Fire District are over six (6) road miles from the Orange <br />Grove Fire Station located on Orange Grove Road. As a result, those properties are not in an <br />insurance district and rated as Class 10. Staff worked with County Geographic Information <br />Systems' (GIS) staff to identify those parcels in the Cane Creek Fire District that are over six (6) <br />road miles from the Orange Grove Fire Station (Attachment 1). The Cane Creek Insurance <br />District Map illustrates, with yellow dots, the homes that fall outside six (6) road miles from the <br />Orange Grove Fire Station. The Orange Grove Fire Station, Nicks Road & Rocky Ridge Road <br />Substations Map (Attachment 2), illustrates that if a second station is located on Rocky Ridge <br />Road and a third future station is located on Nicks Road, these two additional fire stations will <br />place all but 18 of the over 650 homes located over six (6) road miles within six (6) road miles of <br />a fire station. <br />Orange Grove Fire Department is in the planning stages for a new fire station #2 to be <br />strategically located in the southeastern part of the Cane Creek fire district. A new fire station #2 <br />could provide insurance district coverage for an estimated 400 property owners currently more <br />than 6 -road miles from the Orange Grove Station. If approved, it would be a small two bay <br />unmanned station that would meet the insurance definition for a station and provide an <br />