Ankeny will build a new library and fire station before 2020 after residents overwhelmingly approved spending more than $10 million for the facilities.

Voters approved a $8.5 million bond for a new library in Prairie Trail and $2.55 million bond for the city's third fire station in a special election Tuesday.

Both items required 60-percent approval from residents. The plan for the library garnered 71.85 percent approval and the fire station received 86.29 percent, according to official results from Polk County. Around 5,435 people participated in the election.

The projects will not raise taxes.

City leaders have said Ankeny's growth pushed the need for the facilities. In 2010, Ankeny's population was at 45,582. By 2017, that number has grown to over 60,000 residents.

"It's going to be a first-class library facility, but what's important about this set of projects is how it fits into our overall facility planning needs for the (city)," said City Manager David Jones after results were announced Tuesday. "The mayor and the city council and the management team put together a plan that makes a lot of sense looking at the higher orbit view of our needs."

The new library will be in a civic building that will also house new city council chambers.

The approximately 50,000-square-foot civic building will sit south of Vintage Hills apartments,1275 SW State St. It should open by the end of 2019, Jones said.

Kirkendall Public Library has been located at 1210 NW Prairie Ridge Drive since 1996, when it moved out of the building that now houses City Hall.

It will be renovated into city staff offices.

Ankeny's third fire station will be at 36th Street and Otter Creek Drive. The design of the facility will emulate the second fire station and open by Sept. 1, 2018.

Ankeny's two current fire stations are located in the central and southern portions of town, while the new one would be located in the north.

The average response time for Ankeny fire and emergency responders is a little over five and a half minutes. However, the average response time for the Otter Creek area averages nearly nine minutes. The new fire station will improve the department's response times in that area of the city, Jones said.

Fire Chief James Clack has said, year-over-year, Ankeny has experienced an 8 percent increase in emergency calls.

"It's time," Jones said. "It was needed."

The total cost for the fire station is $5.2 million, while the new library and Kirkendall renovations will cost over $25 million.

Reporter Kim Norvell contributed to this story.