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10 i FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR THOMAS PLACE SUBDIVISION RESIDENTIAL SERVICE STANDARD APPROACH Prepared by The Orange County Planning Department June, 1995 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Thomas Place Subdivision is a proposed 25-lot major subdivision located in Eno Township on the south side of Walker.The total area of the,subdivision is approximately 43.5 acres,and the current zoning is AR-Agricultural Residential and Lower Eno Protected Watershed.The average lot size is approximately 1.6 acres. All lots will be served by individual wells and septic tanks, and public roads. For Thomas Place, project build-out is estimated at five years. Housing units will be constructed, beginning in 1996, with completion of the project scheduled for 2000. Units will consist of detached single-family homes, and the applicant estimates the average sales price to be $160,000 in the first year, including the lot, with annual increase in price of$10,000. METHODOLOGY Fiscal impact analysis is a projection of the direct, current, public costs and revenues associated with residential and non residential growth in the jurisdiction in which the growth is taking place. Fiscal impact analysis considers only direct impact in that it projects only the primary costs that will be incurred and the immediate revenues that will be generated. It calculates the financial effect of a planned development or new subdivision by considering the current costs and revenues such a development would generate if it were completed and occupied today.Fiscal impact analysis does not consider the private costs of public action. It is concerned only with public (governmental) costs and revenues. The method used in preparing the fiscal impact analysis is the Service Standard Approach. While only gross expenditures by service category are derived from the Per Capita Method,the Service Standard method determines the total number of additional employees by service function that will be required as a result of growth. This method employs average county government costs per person, average school costs per pupil, an employee to population ratio, and average operating expenses per employee for each service category and school district. The number of new employees are projected and multiplied times the average operating expenses(includes personnel,operating and capital costs)per employee. These average costs are then weighed against per capita and per pupil revenues to project the total net fiscal impact of the development.