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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 18, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. g_~ SUBJECT: Impact Fee Reimbursement DEPARTMENT: Housing/Comm. Development PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara L. Fikes, ext 2490 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To approve the impact fee reimbursement request from Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, NC, Inc. for $33,000 for eleven new homes in New Homestead Place. BACKGROUND: On November 1, 1995, the BOCC approved a policy for impact fee reimbursement to local non-profit organizations meeting the established eligibility criteria. This policy was last revised on March 4, 1998. The policy requires the following: 1. Housing must be developed for first-time homebuyers with incomes at or below 80% of HUD published median income for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA; 2. Affordable housing is defined as owner-occupied housing which can be purchased for no more than 2.5 times annual family income; and 3. The non-profit organization must certify in writing that, for owner-occupied housing, it will remain affordable to the anticipated beneficiary or beneficiaries for a period of a minimum of twenty (20) years or longer if required by HUD policy. 4. The non-profit organization is responsible for providing documentation of impact fee payment. The County has received a reimbursement request for $33,000 from Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, NC, Inc. (HHOC) for eleven (11) new homes being built in New Homestead Place, Habitat's Celebration 2000 subdivision, off Rogers Road in Chapel Hill. HHOC has provided evidence that the impact fee for all eleven. homes have been paid. and are in varying degrees of completion. Six (6) of the homes have been sold with one (1) more scheduled for closing in mid-January. The remaining four (4) homes should be completed and occupied in February 2000.