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15a FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR MEADOW RIDGE SUBDIVISION RESIDENTIAL SERVICE STANDARD APPROACH Prepared by The Orange County Planning Department June, 1995 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Meadow Ridge Subdivision is a proposed 13-lot cluster subdivision located in Chapel Hill Township on the south side of New Hope Church Road.The total area of the subdivision is approximately 26 acres, and the current zoning is RB - Rural Buffer. Excluding 9.81 acres of open space to be owned and maintained by a homeowners association, the average lot size is approximately 1.25 acres. All lots will be served by individual wells and septic tanks, and public roads. For Meadow Ridge,project build-out is estimated at three years.Housing units will be constructed, beginning in 1996, with completion of the project scheduled for 1998. Units will consist of detached single-family homes, and the applicant estimates the average sales price to be $350,000 in the first year, including the lot, with an annual increase in price of$30,000 to $35,000. 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.