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60 <br /> OCS Schools Impact Fee Report(DRAFT) <br /> Student • <br /> Demand for additional school capacity will come from new residential development. To determine the <br /> level of this demand, student generation rates are used.The term "student generation rate" refers to the <br /> number of public school students per housing unit in the OCS system.'Public school students are a subset <br /> of school-aged children,which includes students in private schools and home-schooled children. <br /> Student generation rates are important demographic factors that help account for variations in demand <br /> for school facilities by type of housing. Students per housing unit are held constant over the projection <br /> period since the impact fees represent a "snapshot approach" of current LOS and costs. <br /> TischlerBise obtained student generation data for each school system in the county from Orange County. <br /> The student generation rates were calculated using 2013-2014 student address data geocoded to Orange <br /> County land records tracking housing unit types. These data were analyzed for units built during two <br /> different time periods: prior to 2004, and from 2004 through 2013. Data were collated for these two <br /> discrete periods in order to evaluate whether new development patterns and demand trends in the <br /> residential market had impacted student generation rates for recently built units. Student generation <br /> rates for units constructed from 2004 to 2013 were drawn from an earlier TischlerBise study, finished in <br /> May 2015. In some cases, data from these two periods are combined due to availability limitations, as <br /> detailed in Appendix A. <br /> Rates are provided for each of the five housing unit types used in the impact fee analysis for each level of <br /> school facility: (1) Elementary; (2) Middle; and (3) High. For single family detached homes, separate rates <br /> are included for 0-3 bedroom and 4+ bedroom units. For single family attached and multifamily units, <br /> separate rates are provided for 0-2 bedroom and 3+ bedroom units. Rates for single family detached (less <br /> than 800 square feet) units and manufactured homes are not segmented by bedroom count given the <br /> smaller square footage of these types of units.Student generation rates for OCS are shown below in Figure <br /> 2. <br /> 'Student generation rates are calculated separately for each school system in the County.(See Appendix A for more detail.) <br /> 9 <br />