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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: June 3, 1996
Action Agenda
Item # LA
SUBJECT: PROPOSED AMENDMENT - EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPACT FEE
ORDINANCE
ACTION BY:
DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No
(Held 5-28-96)
BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes X No
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Geof Gledhill
732-2196
• Proposed Amendment Dave Stancil
Ext 2590
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough - 732-8181
Durham - 688-7331
Mebane - 227-2031
Chapel Hill - 967-9251
PURPOSE: To consider a proposed amendment to the Educational Facilities Impact Fee
Ordinance.
BACKGROUND: A public hearing was held May 28 regarding a proposed amendment to
consider an increase in the current schedule of impact fees. Specifically, Section
3, School Impact Fees Imposed on New Residential Structures, is proposed for
amendment to increase the impact fee in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District
from $1,500 to no more than$3,000. This was the recommendation of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. There was no recommendation for increase
from the Orange County Board of Education, and therefore no change to the
impact fee in the Orange County School District is proposed.
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The proposed change is based on revisions to the Educational Facilities Impact
Fee Technical Report. The revisions to the Technical Report include new student
generation rates from an August 1995 study, the establishment of service
standards for elementary and middle school construction, new cost data for
elementary, middle and high schools, and updated needs assessments from the
school districts. These revisions show justification for an impact fee of$11,593
for new housing units in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district.
RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides.
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PROPOSED ORDINANCE/PLAN AMENDMENT
ORDINANCE/PLAN: EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE
REFERENCE: Section 3 School Impact Fees Imposed on New Residential Structures
ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: __X__�Staff Planning Board X BOCC Citizen
Other.
STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION:_2�_High Middle Low
PUBLIC HEARING DATE: May 28, 1996
PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: To amend the Educational Facilities Impact Fee Ordinance to consider
increasing the current schedule of impact fees.
IMPACTS/ISSUES: The proposed amendment is for the purpose of considering an increase in the current
schedule of impact fees. Specifically, Section 3, School Impact Fees Imposed on New Residential
Structures, is proposed for amendment to increase the impact fee in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School
District from $1,500 to no more than $3,000. The change is based on a recalculation of the fees in the
Educational Facilities Impact Fee Technical Report and reflects new demographic data concerning students
per household as well as the recommendations of the School Facilities Construction Standards Work
Group.
No increase in the impact fee in the Orange County School District is proposed.
EXISTING/PROPOSED ORDINANCE/PLAN PROVISIONS:
Applicable sections of the ordinance are shown below. Text to be deleted is shown in s4gwthfeugh
highlighting,while new wording is shown in boldface italics type.
SECTION 3-SCHOOL IMPACT FEES IMPOSED ON
NEW RESIDENTL4L DWELLING UNITS
In addition to all other charges prescribed by ordinance or resolution now or hereafter in effect,
there shall be public school impact fees charged to new residential dwelling units located within Orange
County, and within the municipalities and their extraterritorial planning jurisdictions located within
Orange County. No person may occupy any new residential dwelling unit until all applicable public
school impact fees contained in the following schedule have been paid in full. No certificate of occupancy
or other type of occupancy permit shall be issued for any new residential dwelling unit until the public
school impact fees hereby required have been paid in full. Payment of such fees shall not relieve the
feepayer from the obligation to comply with applicable land development regulations of Orange County or
the municipalities located within Orange County.
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Schedule of Public School Impact Fees
The amount of the public school impact fee will be$750 per residential dwelling unit in the Orange
County School District. The amount of the public school impact fee will be $1,=50 8 $3,000 per residential
dwelling unit in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District.
.ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE:
PLANNING BOARD REVIEW:
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REVIEW: