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191 process to determine the impact fee. Commissioner Gordon suggested that one method to begin addressing the affordable housing issue might be a slidi.ng scale based on the number of bedrooms or other suitable criterion and requested this method be research by the staff. Commissioner Willhoit E -A he feels using a flat fee is more equitable to apply than using a fee based on dwelling types. Chair Carey feels that having a different fee for different types of housing is perceived as unfair and that explaining a sliding fee would be difficult. Commissioner Gordon said that she feels the fee should be increased and suggested holding a public hearing for citizens to respond to this proposal. Commissioner Willhoit agrees that the fee should be increased by a flat amount. He does not want the staff to do a lot of work to develop publications when it will not change the basic philosophy. The Board took straw votes on which proposals should be taken to a public hearing on impact fees, with the following results: Keeping the fee at $750.00 - Commissioner Crowther Increasing the fee to $1,500 - Commissioner Gordon Increasing the fee up to $1,000 - Commissioners Carey, Gordon and Willhoit Using a sliding scale to address the affordable issue - Commissioner Gordon During the work session the Board also discussed proposed revisions to the Impact Fee ordinance and decided which changes to be taken to pubi,? hearing. The major revisions include changing the time period for the schc section of the CIP from 5 to 10 years and establishing a five year gru period for mobile home parks from the effective date of the Ordinance. In the case of the later provision, a replacement unit could be placed on a space if a unit had been located on it anytime during the five years preceding the Ordinance effective date. It was decided that a public hearing would be held at the regular Board meeting scheduled for March 21 to consider increasing the impact fee from $750 up to $1,000. The ordinance amendments will also go to the hearing scheduled for March 21. Some of the changes are policy issues that will be addressed by the County Commissioners at one of their regular meetings. ADJOURNMENT With no further discussion, Chair Carey adjourned the meeting. The next regular meeting of the County Commissioners will be held at 7:30 p.m. on January 17, 1995 at the OWASA community meeting room in Carrboro, North Carolina. Moses Carey, Jr., Chair Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk