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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 7, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-e <br /> SUBJECT: Impact Fee Reimbursement Request — Habitat for Humanity <br /> DEPARTMENT: Housing, Human Rights & <br /> Community Development <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Letter of Request from Habitat for Audrey Spencer-Horsley, (919) 245- <br /> Humanity including Attachments 2490 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the reimbursement of impact fees as requested by Habitat for <br /> Humanity in the amount of $84,345 for fifteen (15) homes recently constructed in the County for <br /> low income persons. <br /> BACKGROUND: On November 1, 1995 the BOCC approved a policy for impact fee <br /> reimbursement to local non-profit organizations that met the established eligibility criteria. This <br /> policy was last revised on March 4, 1998. The County has since budgeted money for the <br /> purpose of reimbursing impact fees for qualifying agencies and properties. <br /> The policy requires the following: <br /> • Housing for first-time homebuyers with incomes at or below 80% of the HUD published <br /> area median income (AMI) for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan <br /> Statistical Area (MSA); <br /> • Affordable Housing is defined as owner-occupied housing which can be purchased for <br /> no more than 2.5 times annual family income; and <br /> • The organization requesting impact fee reimbursement must certify in writing that the <br /> owner-occupied housing will remain affordable to the anticipated beneficiary or <br /> beneficiaries for a period of a minimum of twenty (20) years or at least as long as <br /> required by applicable HUD policy. <br /> The County received a reimbursement request for $84,345 from Habitat for Humanity for the <br /> construction of fifteen (15) single-family, owner-occupied homes — thirteen (13) in Tinnin Woods <br /> subdivision and two (2) in the Fairview community. <br /> The reimbursement request has been reviewed and is eligible for reimbursement in accordance <br /> with the above-stated criteria. Specifically, Habitat has provided evidence that the impact fees <br />