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- ATTACHMENT A - I U �' ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT HILLSBOROUGH 4r. NORTH CAROLINA • 27278 body ..a MEMORANDUM TO: Marvin Collins, Planning Director FROM: Warren Faircloth, Erosion Control Officer SUBJECT: Revisions to Fee Schedule for_ Erosion Control Division. DATE: May 14, 1985 I have felt for some time that the fee schedule for this division should be revised in order to more accurately reflect the time and expense incurred by the County in enforcing the Erosion Control Ordi- nance. The proposed changes are based more on exper- ience and intuition than on hard data since we do not keep records of the amount of time, travel, corre- spondence, etc . spent on various functions. I have attempted to base the proposed schedule on tangible _ and measureable criteria in order to be as fair and consistant with different projects. However, there are intangibles that vary from site to site, such as the difficulty of the particular site, which it is impossible to define and measure in an accurate and consistant way. The most accurate and consistant manner to charge fees, I belsive, is to base then, on the type of con,Cy`rrti:.t5r {_'-,e of � r•�_ ..w..?r.�a_ T!-' t,, of con r uc i._._':. "owl;' ',c -��eiir�e _ �a e=t=w1.- Uillan or Rural; they re defined later on in this mer:o . The amount of disturbance is the total amount of area that is cleared on the site; it may be the whole site or a portion of it . The type of construction and the amount of disturbance involved in the site seems to accurately determine the complexity of the site, and, therefore, the time required to review the plan and to inspect the site during construction. The present fee schedule works as follows: Plan Waiver for sites of 20,000 to 40,000 square feet plus a Grading Permit before work begins. Although it implies that a plan is not necessary,