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27 09; Shown on Table 10 are the facilities associated with prototypical community and district parks, as identified in the Master Recreation &Parks Plan. Estimates of the cost to develop each type of park were prepared using the cost data from Table 7. For a typical community park, the cost would be $2,165,490, while a district park would cost $3,888,340. To derive the number of persons which would be served by a park, the service standard or land area requirements in Table 4 and the recommended acreage for community (30 acres) and district (100 acres) parks were used. As an example, the land area requirement for a community park is 2.5 acres per 1,000 population. By dividing the recommended park size of 30 acres by 2.5 and multiplying the result by 1,000, the number of persons served by the park may be estimated at 12,000. By applying the methodology to a district park, the number of persons served by that type of facility would be 20,000. To calculate the capital cost per household, dividing the total park cost by the number of persons served by the park results in the per capita cost. Multiplying the per capita cost by the number of persons per household provides an estimate of the per household cost. The per household cost represents the payment-in-lieu for each dwelling lot and would be $422 per lot created within a community park service area and $455 for each lot created within a district park service area. Revenue Considerations While both approaches result in greater payments-in-lieu, any increase should not be viewed as capable of producing a revenue windfall sufficient to finance the parks system. Instead, several important points should be considered in the collection of payments from each approach. • Payments-in-lieu are made prior to recording of a subdivision plat and not at the time a building permit or certificate of occupancy is issued. The point at which payments-in-lieu are made is related to the enabling legislation which permits counties to enact dedication/payment-in-lieu provisions. G.S. 153A-33 1. Contents and requirements of ordinance. A subdivision ordinance may provide for...the dedication or reservation of recreation areas serving residents of the subdivision and residents of the immediate area within which the subdivision is located...A subdivision control ordinance may provide that a developer may be required to provide funds to the county whereby the county may acquire and develop recreational land or areas to serve the development or subdivision, including the purchase of land which may be used to serve more than one subdivision or development within the immediate area Dedication/payment-in-lieu provisions are contained in the subdivision regulations. Thus, they are collected during the subdivision approval process, and the last opportunity for collecting such payments is prior to the recording of the plat with the Register of Deeds.