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ORANGE COUNTY 003 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No. (,16. Meeting Date: JUNE 5, 1986 SUBJECT: RESOLUTION REQUESTING IMPACT FEES LEGISLATION DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S OFFICE RESOLUTION TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane -- 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution re in the 1986 Session of the General Ass g emblytopenablelthesCounty to establish a system of Impact Fees. NEED: The Planning Board, Planning Staff and Board of Commissioners have expressed the desire and need to incorporate impact fees into the planning process countywide. In addition, to accommo- date the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance and the Chapel Hill Land Development Ordinance and the Chapel Hill Land Development Ordinance it will be necessary for impact fee authority to be in place in the joint planning area. Impact fees are mechanisms in which the new development share's the public cost associated with demands and burdens placed on public service delivery systems create by the new development. In essence, impact fees are designed to help defray the costs of expanding public faci- lities. IMPACT: The General Assembly has established June 11, 1986 as the dead- line for receipt of local bills for consideration during this summer's short session. The Town of Chapel Hill has adopted a resolution requesting special legislation for impact fees while the Town of Carrboro requested and received special legislation in 1985. RECOMMENDATION: Adopt resolution requesting the local legislative delegation to introduce special legislation which will amend existing enabling statutes to allow impact fee authorization.