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13 <br />May 1, 1997 <br />Prepared by: Emil E. Malizia <br />AANC Report: <br />The Impacts of Recent Residential Development on-Public <br />Schools in North Carolina Urban Areas: Single - Family Housing <br />Compared to Apartments <br />Background <br />In May 1996, the Principal Investigator (PI) completed a <br />survey of the academic literature and trade publications <br />pertaining to development impact fees for the Apartment <br />Association of North Carolina (AANC). The specific concern <br />was to identify empirical estimates of development impacts <br />by housing type -- apartments compared to single - family <br />residences. The review supported the idea that apartments <br />generally have lesser impacts compared to single - family <br />housing primarily because the former have fewer persons per <br />household and fewer children per household. <br />Survey Work <br />In September 1996, the PI agreed to conduct a random sample <br />survey of housing units in the five urban areas of North <br />Carolina — Asheville, Charlotte, Piedmont Triad (Greensboro <br />and Winston - Salem), Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Cary <br />and Chapel Hill), and Wilmington. The survey was designed to <br />estimate the differences between the household <br />characteristics of apartment dwellers compared to the <br />occupants of single- family housing. The sample size was <br />supposed to be large enough to generalize the results to all <br />metropolitan areas of North Carolina. <br />The survey was specifically intended to determine the number <br />of children being sent to public schools by households <br />living in recently built apartments and single - family <br />dwellings. The questions pertained to household size; <br />number, age and grade level of children; public, private or <br />home schooling; tenure of the household in the dwelling, <br />county, urban area or state; and housing size, value and <br />age. Exhibit 1 is the survey questionnaire. <br />In October 1996, staff at the Center for Urban and Regional <br />Studies conducted a telephone survey of 630 households in <br />the five North Carolina urban area's in order to generate the <br />