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ORANGE COUNTY U i <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No. (j25 <br /> Meeting Date: JUNE 17, 1986 <br /> SUBJECT: RESOLUTION REQUESTING IMPACT FEES LEGISLATION <br /> DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: X Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S <br /> OFFICE <br /> NONE TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution requesting special legislation . <br /> in the 1986 Session of the General Assembly to enable the County <br /> to establish a system of Impact Fees. <br /> NEED: The Planning Board, Planning Staff and Board of Commissioners <br /> have expressed the desire and need to incorporate impact fees <br /> into the planning process countywide. In addition, to accommo- <br /> date the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance and the Chapel Hill Land <br /> Development Ordinance and the Chapel Hill Land Development <br /> Ordinance it will be necessary for impact fee authority to be in <br /> place in the joint planning area. Impact fees are mechanisms in <br /> which the new development share's the public cost associated <br /> with demands and burdens placed on public service delivery <br /> systems create by the new development. In essence, impact fees <br /> are designed to help defray the costs of expanding public faci- <br /> lities. <br /> 'A/draft of the bill was provided to the Board in the June 5, 1986 agenda. <br /> CO'-'1MENDATION: As the Board decides. <br />