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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD 3 HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ORANGE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE Pursuant to the requirements of the General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 153A, Article 18, Sections 323, 331, and 340; Chapter 460 of the 1987 Session Laws; Chapter 324 of the 1991 Session Laws;and Chapter 642 of the 1993 Session Laws,notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held in the Community Meeting Room of the OWASA Operations Center, 400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, March 21, 1995, at 7:30 p.m.for the purpose of giving all interested citizens an opportunity to speak for or against the following item: PUBLIC SCHOOL IMPACT FEES Effective July 1, 1993,the Board of County Commissioners established a system of impact fees to help fund a portion of the school capital needs created by growth in the county.Since that date,an impact fee of$750 has been collected for each new housing unit constructed or installed in the county, including single-family homes, townhouses, two to four-family dwellings, apartments, and mobile homes. Fees collected in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District are deposited in a special account and used for the construction of new school facilities in that district only.A similar provision applies in the Orange County School District. Amendments proposed to the Educational Facilities Impact Fee Ordinance include the following: i • Amend Section 3, School Impact Fees Imposed on New Residential Dwelling Units, by increasing the amount of the public school impact fee from$750 to$1,000 per residential dwelling unit. This change has be requested because of higher public school construction costs. • Amend Section 4,Public School Impact Fee Exceptions,subsection 4,to include exception provisions for replacement units:where the original dwelling unit was destroyed by natural catastrophe; and where a dwelling unit was located on a lot or space during the five (5) year period prior to the effective date of the ordinance. • Amend Section 4, Public School Impact Fee Exceptions, subsection 6, to include text format changes. • Amend Section 5, Collection of Fees, subsection C, Limitation on Expenditure of Funds, to:reflect changes to the enabling legislation which permit impact fees to be used for debt service payments and payments under leases; and extend the time frame within which impact fees must be expended from five (5)years to 10 years from date of collection. The expenditure time frame is proposed for expansion to reflect the fact that both School Districts have prepared 10-year capital improvement programs for school construction. • Amend Section 5, Collection of Fees, subsection E, Reimbursement of Fees, to add a provision to permit reimbursement of fees collected in error or where an exception has been granted.