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APPROVED 815196 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING <br />MINUTES <br />MAY 28, 1996 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in joint session with the Orange County Planning <br />Board on May 28, 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in Superior Courtroom, Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Commissioners <br />William L. Crowther, Alice M. Gordon, and Don Willhoit <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Commissioner Stephen H. Halkiotis <br />PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Joan Jobsis and members Paul Hoecke, <br />Karen Barrows, Elizabeth Walters, S.A.M. Brooks, Cheryl A. Howie, Renee A. Price, Arnie Katz, Cherie <br />Rosemond, Leo Allison, Margaret Brown and Robert Strayhorn <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br />Blythe (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br />Chair Carey welcomed everyone to the meeting and outlined the procedure for presenting items and <br />receiving public comment. He mentioned that Commissioner Halkiotis is not in attendance because he is <br />attending an awards banquet at Orange High School where he is principal. <br />B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br />Chair Carey dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />1. Public School Impact Fee Ordinance <br />Geoffrey Gledhill presented the information as included in the agenda. In summary the <br />proposed amendment is to increase the impact fee in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District from <br />$1,500 to no more than $3,000. No increase in the impact fee in the Orange County School District is <br />proposed. The technical report is the basis of establishing the fee. Mr. Gledhill summarized the technical <br />report which stated that in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District each new housing unit that comes <br />into the district has an $11,593 impact on school construction. In the Orange County School District this <br />figure is $3,404 for each housing unit. <br />THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPEN FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS <br />P. H. CRAIG spoke in opposition of this increase in the impact fee. He feels the impact fee is not fair <br />and is doing severe damage to the economic development in this County. He feels it is progressive with the <br />bank getting their share. He said that the real problem is no economic development. He does not feel that <br />everyone that comes to Chapel Hill has the kind of money it takes to live in this community. <br />JUDY MARGOLIS distributed information from Nancy Salmon. She spoke in support of a sliding <br />scale for applying the impact fee. She made reference to the data generated last year by the Planning <br />interns and said that she feels the impact fee should be higher for 4 or more bedrooms and lower for 3 or less <br />bedrooms saying this is more complicated but much fairer. Without a formula for a sliding scale or for <br />number of bedrooms, she supports the proposed $3,000 impact fee for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School <br />District. <br />COLLEEN CARLUCCI-ADAMS, local builder and realtor, asked that the Board not approve the <br />proposed increase in the impact fee. She suggested that the County Commissioners shorten the time