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The Town of Carrboro Planning Director indicated via email the town did not have any additional comments on the recommended student generation rates. Staff received comments from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (Attachment 2) expressing the school board members' support for utilizing the 2007 student generation rates for all SAPFO processes. The Chapel Hill Town Council and the Hillsborough Town Board received the SAPFOTAC's Student Generation Rate recommendation at their respective September 14, 2009 meetings. Planning Staff received email notifications from the towns' Planning Directors informing staff that their respective governing boards did not have any comments on the item. The Chapel Hill staff memorandum provided to the Town Council is included as Attachment 3 to this abstract and the Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners Agenda Form is Attachment 4. Attachment 5 is a comparison of the 2001 and 2007 student generation rates and the differences in the expected number of students generated using actual building permit data. Student generation rates do not affect membership projections (which are based on actual enrollment numbers) or class sizes; they affect the CAPS system which is part of the approval system for new development. The CAPS system compares the expected number of students to be generated from a particular development to the available capacity in the school system. If capacity is available for the year in which students are expected to come from a particular development, a CAPS is issued. In the Chapel Hill -Carrboro school system, 100 single family detached houses were expected to generate 39 students under the 2001 student generation rates whereas the updated 2007 rates would expect 60 students from the same number of single family detached houses. If approved, the updated SGR will begin to be used in August 2010 when the 2010-2011 school year begins. The SAPFO MOU requires that the BOCC inform all other parties to the MOU of any changes of this type before February 1St of the year in which such change is intended to become effective. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Precise financial impacts cannot be determined. However, the revised Student Generation Rates will impact the CAPS system and possibly affect development activity in the jurisdictions party to the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO). RECOMMENDATION(S): The Interim Manager recommends the Board approve the 2007 Student Generation Rates as determined by TischlerBise and recommended by the SAPFOTAC for use in the SAPFO and CAPS processes.