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108 Orange County Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan CHAPTER 11-Issues for Further Study/Conclusion 11 for new facilities that are related directly to the in- Example: crease in persons and park needs generated by the Land Dedication development. 10 lots: 10 x 1/57 of an acre (0.018 acre) = 0.18 acre of The full language of the parks and open space land land dedicated for parks/open space. it dedication / payment-in-lieu system is provided as Payment in Lieu of Land Dedication Appendix 11-1. While this system has provided 10 lots: 10 x$455=$4,550 payment in lieu important auxiliary funding to the acquisition of As can be seen in the example above, land several park sites and the construction of a parks, dedication rates for a typical subdivision would one of the drawbacks of the system is that the land generate small fractions of an acre in land for a park, dedication and funding provisions remain the same amounts far too small to be useful for park needs by as they were in the 1980s. Developers of a subdivi- a county that focuses on district and community- sion must provide 1/57 of an acre for each dwelling scale parks. Even a 100-lot subdivision would unit in the subdivision plan (1/20 of an acre in areas generate by this formula only 1.8 acres of parks and of floodplains and steep slopes). However, a subdivi- open space land (or up to 5 acres if all were flood- sion developer may, with approval, make a payment plain or steep slope land). Largely for this reason in lieu of land dedication if there are no identified (and the fact that few developments have occurred park needs on this location. In this case, the at planned park sites), the County has chosen to developer may make a payment equal for $422 per accept the payment-in-lieu amount rather than try lot if within an identified community park service to administer hundreds of tiny park sites. By local area (smaller portions of the county around com- legislation and ordinance, payment-in-lieu funds munity park sites),or$455 per lot if within a district must be expended in the district in which the sub- park service area (all of the county). division is located. Map 11-1:Current(2014) Payment-in-Lieu Districts While the payment in lieu funds have been an im- portant, albeit small contributor to parkland acquisi- tion and park construction, the need for a more up- to-date approach to land dedication and payment in lieu has long been needed. Attempts to examine ' . Northeast Dhtdd Pork - i changes to this model were explored by 1999 or f before, and an analysis was undertaken by a con- _ ' sultant firm in 2001. CheekWillshoraxgh District Park ' ae� , At that time, the consultant's finding determined _j that the County's program for land dedication / ' 1 payment-in-lieu provided insufficient support, but noted that the County's lack of existing parks creat- ed a level of service that may not warrant an in- crease. Knowing that the County was preparing to embark on its first attempt to build parks and create s- mm r arks system, it was recommended that this s Chape!!fl!/Tmvash/p`Distrkv Park a., parks y tem be re-evaluated in several years when new ('arr6sro j parks were opened and the level of service increased. 11-2