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/ D <br /> 13 <br /> t 1 <br /> 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 2 AND ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> 3 MINUTES <br /> 4 MAY 28, 1996 <br /> 5 <br /> 6 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in joint session with the Orange County Planning <br /> 7 Board on May 28, 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in Superior Courtroom, Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br /> 8 <br /> 9 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey,Jr., and Commissioners William <br /> 0 L. Crowther, Alice M. Gordon, and Don Wdlhoit <br /> 1 COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Commissioner Stephen H. Halkiotis <br /> 2 PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Joan Jobsis and members Paul Hoecke, <br /> 3 Karen Barrows, Elizabeth Walters, S.A.M. Brooks, Cheryl A. Howie, Renee A. Price, Arnie Katz, Cherie <br /> 4 Rosemond, Leo Allison, Margaret Brown and Robert Strayhom <br /> 5 COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br /> 6 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br /> 7 Blythe (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> 8 <br /> 9 <br /> 0 A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br /> 1 Chair Carey welcomed everyone to the meeting and outlined the procedure for presenting items anct <br /> 2 receiving public comment. He mentioned that Commissioner Halkiotis is not in attendance because he is <br /> 3 attending an awards banquet at Orange High School where he is principal. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> 6 Chair Carey dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br /> 9 1. Public School Impact Fee Ordinance <br /> 0 Geoffrey Gledhill presented the information as included in the agenda. In summary the <br /> 1 proposed amendment is to increase the impact fee in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District from <br /> 2 $1,500 to no more than $3,000. No increase in the impact fee in the Orange County School District is <br /> 3 proposed. The technical report is the basis of establishing the fee. Mr. Gledhill summarized the technical <br /> 4 report which indicated that in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District each new housing unit that comes <br /> 5 into the district has an $11,593 impact on school construction. In the Orange County School District this <br /> 6 figure is $3,404 per new housing unit. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPEN FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS <br /> 9 P. H. CRAIG spoke in opposition of this increase in the impact fee. He feels the impact fee is not fair <br /> 0 and is doing severe damage to the economic development in this County. He feels it is progressive with the <br /> 1 bank getting their share. He said that the real problem is no economic development. He does not feel that <br /> 2 everyone that comes to Chapel Hill has the kind of money it takes to live in this community. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 JUDY MARGOLIS distributed information from Nancy Salmon. She spoke in support of a sliding <br /> 5 scale for applying the impact fee. She made reference to the data generated last year by the Planning <br /> 6 interns and said that she feels the impact fee should be higher for 4 or more bedrooms and lower for 3 or less <br /> 7 bedrooms saying this is more complicated but much fairer. Without a formula for a sliding scale or for <br /> 8 number of bedrooms, she supports the proposed $3,000 Impact Fee for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School <br /> 9 District. <br /> 0 <br /> 1 COLLEEN CARLUCCI-ADAMS, local builder and realtor, asked that the Board not approve the <br /> 2 proposed increase in the impact fee. She suggested that the County Commissioners shorten the time <br />