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JUN-01-1995 13:50 FROM ORANGE CTY COMMISSIONERS TO 3002 P.07/08 LN 7 13 DUBIE WASLBN supports the pro increase and asked that the Board of County Commissioners ap ve $1,500. She presented a petition with 57 signatures which r as follows: We, the undersigned, althoigh unable to attend the public hearing on May 25, 2995, urge the orange county Commissioners to: 1. increase the impact f on new residential construction to $1,500 immediately; 2. carry out a survey thi summer to establish representative student-generation ra s for new residences; and 3. establish an appropria sliding scale for impact fees as anon as possible thereafter, o incorporate local school construction standards and newly estaDlished student-generation rates. She feels it is not unfair to aic new residential growth to share the cost of the impact on the ools. She asked that the fee be increased to $1,500 for the C pel Hill-Carrboro District. she presented an article which expl how Atlanta plays the impact-fee game. The article says t t the fees have been a major way for then to do things they coul t have done otherwise. LEON NEYERS spoke against finan public education with an impact fee. He feels that public ed tion is part of government and benefits the entire community an should be funded by the entire community. He urged the Boar of County Commissioners to be honest and rational in their deci on on impact fees. He asked that the Board take advantage all the hard work done by the Planning Department and make the ight decision. PATRICK MULKEY spoke against th impact fee as it is currently designed. He will remain mint the impact fee until County spending is brought under con of including both school systems. He fools that increasing impact fee is the easy way out, cutting the budget and setting a money aside for future capital needs takes some action by Board of County Commissioners. He questioned which d the Board of County Commissioners will take. LISA WARREN is more against the ay that the fee is a flat fee. Her and her husband are looki into building a house and must reduce the size of the house be use of the impact fee. She feels that a lot of children are in entso. she asked that the Board of County Commissioners m the fee more fair and look at incwsmmes and other children in the ystem who are not included in the foe. SIN LLOYD feels, that orange Co should have enough money to do whatever it wants. In 1983, Economic Development Commission was created. However, tx ve years later there has not been a brick laid in the US70, 145 s thorn railway corridor. The plan should be to create some iadus al and economic growth in e