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JUN-01-1995 13:42 FROM ORANGE CTY COMMISSIOtERS TO 3002 P.02/08 D � C 2 8 PUBLIC KNOOL _ 8 Pluming Director Marvin Coll presented for receipt of Public comments a proposed increase n the public school impact fee from $750 to $2,500. He noted t the $1,500 fee is based on the calculation of the maximum allow le fees which the County can charge for public school capital .ne The maximum allowable fee as verified in the updated Technical sport, was approximately $1,900 in both school districts. He xplained how the maximum allowable fee was calculated and whi variables were used as a basis for the calculation. He noted hat in late summer or early fall a new Technical Report will be ' esented using the latest information they can get. This will' elude a sliding scale for fees based an different factors, lik bedrooms, type of structure, cost of construction or square foots . In answer to a question from the audience, Mr. Collins said ' at the tax base does not factor into the calculation of impal fees except when giving credits. PUBLYC doffs NANCY SALMON spoke in support of the increase in public school impact fees. She asked thatItte Planning Department use representative data and values for parameters in their calculations of the financial impact f new construction. She hopes that the research being done s summer will not only be used for establishing a basis for th sliding scale but to more accurately assess the true impact of ew construction in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District. DAVID C. HURLBERT spoke against a impact fee and for alternative financing methods such a bonds and other traditional means of funding schools. He feels are is a disparity of the impact of impact fees on a class of ople attempting the achieve the American dream of owning a home. He said that a person buying a $75,000 house is paying a 10% tax sus a person buying a $300,000 house and pays a .5% tax. said that good public schools are a benefit to the entire ity, County, State and to the nation as a whole so the ity as a whole should bear these burdens. He does not feel the only new homeowners should be the ones paying for schools. He ked that the Board of County Commissioners do the right thing. is in favor of good schools but feels that he should not have to' y a fee when he builds his house since he has lived here all hi life. KU TOUW, Chair of the Chapel H 1-Carrboro School Board, spoke in support of the increase, H perspective is due to the fact that there are sore students in ch classroom and there is no room available for additional stu nts. He noted that construction costa have increased co iderably since the setting of the original impact fee. Also, Town of Chapel Hill sees the impact tax as an important reuse source for funding now schools. The best they can hope for rom developers is that they will donate some land and then the d elopers may want a decrease on the impact fee. He said that at $ ,500, a developer building I