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PROJECT UNDERSTANDING <br /> Orange County is interested in understanding the impact of residential development on school systems <br /> in the County. Specifically, the County would like to know the average number of students from <br /> different types of new housing units, where new housing units are defined as those built within the last <br /> 10 years. In addition, the County is interested in understanding the extent to which the size of the unit <br /> affects the number of students. In this analysis, the size of the unit will be indicated by number of <br /> bedrooms. Each school system in the County will be evaluated separately (Orange County Schools and <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools). <br /> SCOPE OF WORK <br /> TASK 1:PROJECT INITIATION/DATA COLLECTION <br /> The purpose of this task is to obtain data and documentation related to the project to include the <br /> following elements: <br /> • Obtain housing unit data from each Town (Chapel Hill and Carrboro) and Orange County <br /> reflecting units constructed within the last 10 years, classified by type with number of bedrooms <br /> where available.(Note: For Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS), data will reflect new <br /> housing units located in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and the portion of Orange County that falls <br /> within CHCCS. For Orange County Schools, building permit data will include those units <br /> permitted in the County and the Town of Hillsborough within the Orange County School <br /> System.) <br /> • Obtain student address data from each School District. (Data should indicate grade level (or type <br /> of school).) <br /> • Coordinate with Orange County to obtain data on bedroom counts for multifamily units. <br /> • Obtain GIS layers for Towns and County. <br /> • TischlerBise will obtain PUMS data for the geographic area covering Orange County. <br /> • Identify any initial issues with data. <br /> TASK 2:EVALUATE DATA AND DERIVE PRELIMINARY STUDENT GENERATION RATES <br /> This task will utilize the data collected and organized in Task 1 to derive preliminary student generation <br /> rates. Subtasks include: <br /> • TischlerBise will match student addresses to housing unit data using GIS. As part of this subtask, <br /> ongoing evaluation of the dataset will be conducted for quality and the extent to which "clean <br /> up" of the files are necessary to successfully conduct the address match. TischlerBise will alert <br /> the County to any significant issues that would require excess additional time on the part of <br /> TischlerBise staff. Routine cleaning up of data is anticipated. <br /> 3 <br />