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Technical Report 4 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Development Impact Fee Ordinance, Bill 50 -87. Wolf, Audrey L., Broward County Educational Fee: An Evaluation of the Quantitative Adequacy of the Generation Rates. Fort Lauderdale: Broward County, 1987. School Board of Broward County, Florida, Recommended Standards and Procedures For An Educational Impact Fee. Fort Lauderdale: Broward County, 1987. Broward County, Florida, Land Development Code. Fort Lauderdale: Broward County, I•:' Broward County, Florida, Dedication/Payment In Lieu Provisions - School Sites, Ordinance 79 -1. Clapp- Smith, Merritt, and Karen Kristiansson, A Study of Housing Characteristics and Student Generation Rates for Orange County, N.C. Hillsborough: Orange County, 1995. School Facility Construction Standards Work Group, School Facility Construction Standards Report. Hillsborough: Orange County, 1996. N.C. Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina Public Schools Facility Standards: A Guide for Planning School Facilities. Raleigh: N.C. Department of Public Instruction, 1995. Basis for Impact Fees Impact fees are generally imposed as a condition for some approval to proceed with development. The objective of such fees is not to raise money but to insure adequate public facilities. Where such facilities are inadequate, permitting development runs counter to the responsibility of a local government to protect public health, safety, and welfare. If the question is one of adequate public facilities, the issue, then, is who should be financially responsible for such adequacy? The community and the property owner are the available candidates to bear such responsibility. It may be argued that the community should alone be financially responsible for needed facilities because the community benefits from new housing, job creation, and tax base enhancement. However, it may also be argued that imposing all such costs upon the community is unfair since many members of the community may receive no direct benefits from the development of the property. Increasingly, the answer is that the community need not absorb all costs but may impose a proportionate, or fair, share of such costs upon new development. Impact fees are the vehicle through which new development pays a proportionate share of facility costs. Proportionate share is a financial contribution that would generally be less than total cost.