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Attachment D ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director Administration ��` ''� 306F Revere Road (919) 245-2575 P O Box 8181 (919) 644-3002 (FAX) Hillsborough, www.co.orange.nc.us °<<4 �._ °° North Carolina, 27278 W ® MEMORANDUM To: Christine Westfall Orange County Community Housing Corporation From: Aaron Cain Orange County Planning Department Thru: Craig Benedict - Planning Director, Orange County Date: September 4, 2001 Re: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance The following response is in regard to your memorandum to the Orange County Board of Commissioners dated May 7, 2001 regarding the implementation of a schools adequate public facilities ordinance and its impact on affordable housing in the county. Below I address your comments, questions and concerns as fully as possible at the present time. Furthermore, these responses come from the point of view of Orange County Planning and our suggestions for the structure of the ordinance. Affordable housing is a prime concern in Orange County and county-wide task forces with broad support are addressing it. Your concerns are generally about whether or not the Schools APFO will restrict affordable housing. The suggestions you make as a possible remedy may actually cause more damage to school overcrowding. By exempting affordable housing projects,those students who do enroll because of the construction of the project will not count towards capacity. Undoubtedly,we will reach capacity through the disbursement of CAPS to higher-income developers. Therefore,we will always be above capacity and will stifle other types of development. This is a situation we hope to avoid,while yet attending to the needs of affordable housing developers. Such solutions that have been discussed so far by staff and elected officials are giving preference to affordable