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- 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 10, 1995 <br /> Agenda Abstract <br /> Item#_� <br /> SUBJECT: PUBLIC SCHOOL IMPACT FEES <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Summary Statistics Planning Director X2592 <br /> Draft Report (To be distributed separately) <br /> PHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the findings of a study to update student generation rates and <br /> determine the feasibility of a sliding scale of public school impact fees. <br /> BACKGROUND: On May 15, 1995, two interns from the UNC Department of City & Regional <br /> Planning were employed to assist the Planning Staff'in collecting and analyzing <br /> housing data for the purposes of: <br /> • Determining up-to-date student generation rates to be used in the <br /> calculation of public school impact fees; and <br /> • Determining if a sliding scale system of public school impact fees were <br /> possible. <br /> At the beginning of August, 1995, the interns met with the Planning director to <br /> review their findings. A report detailing the results of their work is to be <br /> distributed to the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, August 8. A sheet <br /> outlining"Summary Statistics" and"Student Generation Rates"for new housing <br /> units constructed during the 1992-1994 period is provided as an attachment. <br /> Significant findings of the study include the following. <br /> • Student generation rates in new housing units in the two school districts <br /> are significantly different than those used in the Technical Report and <br /> based on the 1990 Census. The implication of the data shown on the <br /> following page may be that higher impact fees can be justified in the <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District, while lower impact fees are <br /> warranted in the Orange County School District. <br /> • Few significant relationships were found to exist between student <br /> generation rates and variables such as housing type,number of bedrooms, <br /> housing value,and square footage in housing unit.The implication of such <br /> findings is strong correlations between variables do not exist on which on <br /> base a sliding scale impact fee. The continued use of a"flat fee" may be <br /> justified by such findings. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides. <br />