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JUN-01-1995 13-47 FROM ORANGE CTY COMMISSIONERS TO 3002 P.05/08 part of the revenue six. They su raising the fee to $1,500 and separating Chapel Hill/Carrboro d Orange County fees. They support the. impact fee study which i being done at this time. ALAN BELCH talked about bets be made on how high the impact fee will be raised. He said at new schools are needed and there is no question that they t be paid for. What increases the need for schools is ch dren and unless there is a head tax on every new child coming i o either of the school systems, there is no fairness to wha is really happening. A $1,500 impact fee will cost homebuy $3,000 in payments. The cost of housing will continue to ri while the real issue which is creating a bigger business base w 1 suffer. He said that it concerns many in the county that sig 'ficantly inappropriate figures have been used by various ci zens groups to justify a larger increase and the press and th public seem to bay the numbers without question. GLORIA FRLEY, resident for sev years and a volunteer in the schools, supports the Board of C ty Commissioner& ten-point plan. She supports the $1,500 ispae fee and encourages implementing a sliding scale based o number of bedrooms per square footage which will insure the iversity and richness of the community. She said that the bulk o the homes being built and sold in Chapel Hill are not affordab housing but $150,000 plus. She supports building and maintaini a working teas of the Chapel Hill Council, the Carrboro Board of dermen and the School Boards to insure that any land use plan inc des the children's education and a plan that requires responsibil for existing and new residents of the schools and respons ility of the developers who will sell their hoses because of the igh quality of our schools. The roots of the American dream lie a good public education. KU SCOTT said he feels that $1, 00 is a large figure. Orange County has 5400 students now red to twenty-five years ago when they had 5,000 students. 10►RIK BAMMS spoke in support the impact fee. She fools it is good budget management and tha developers will absorb some of the cost as well as citizens. Sh noted that borrowed money cost more. She supports a sliding s le. Education cost more money today as well as constructinq w schools cost more today. EARL DAVIS is against the imps fee and against any more taxes in this County. He feels the ty does not care about the low income population. KARY JO BATOM, parent of thr children in the Chapel Hill- Carrboro schools, read a letter from ivy Ludington who supports the increase to $1,500 for the schoo impact fee. In summary, she said that the schools are severely o owded and action must be taken to pay for new schools. She f is that quality education should be one of the County's highhes priorities. She fools that the burden of paying for new schools hould be put on those who