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~n~~ <br />LAW OFFICES <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL & HARGRAVE <br />A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION <br />129 E. TRYON STREET <br />P. O. DRAWER 1529 <br />HILLSBOROUGH. NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br />919.732.2196 <br />FAX 919.732-7997 <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Bill Crowther <br />Alice Gordon <br />Stephen Halkiotis <br />Don Willhoit <br />Orange County Board <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North <br />June 26, 1996 <br />of Commissioners <br />Carolina 27278 <br />FROM THE DESK OF <br />GEOFFREY E. GLEDHILL <br />RE: Impact Fee Exemption or Reimbursement Requests by First <br />Centrism Corporation <br />Dear Board Members: <br />In letters to John Link and Tara Fikes, Mr. Jerry A. Lohla, <br />Executive Vice President of First Centrism Corporation, makes the <br />case for exemption or refund of school capital impact fees for an <br />apartment complex planned to be built in Carrboro. The apartment <br />complex is presented as a rental, affordable housing project for <br />seniors. The request seeks exemption or refund of $186,000. <br />The impact fee for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District <br />approved by the Board of Commissioners on June 3, 1996 no doubt <br />makes this request one for exemption or refund of $369,000 in <br />impact fees. <br />Exemption: The impact fee is based on the Orange County <br />Educational Facilities Impact Fee Ordinance and is a fee charged <br />on all new residential dwelling units located within Orange <br />County. That-ordinance>provides no exception for residential <br />dwelling units regardless of ownership, whether to be used for <br />home ownersh~g,or rental, affordability or classification of the <br />resident pogs~].aetion of the dwelling unit. In other words, an <br />apartment co~~"e~t developed to be rented to persons over 62 years <br />of age who meet affordability requirements is not exempt under <br />the Impact Fee Ordinance. That Ordinance would have to be <br />amended to permit an exemption for this classification of <br />residential dwelling or any other. <br />9 <br />The Impact Fee Ordinance provides a process for review of <br />the assumptions which form the basis for the fee and its amount. <br />That process is described in Section 5F. The Board of County <br />