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16 FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR HARDSCRABBLE CLUSTER SUBDIVISION RESIDENTIAL SERVICE STANDARD APPROACH Prepared by The Orange County Planning Department October, 1994 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Hardscrabble Cluster Subdivision is a proposed 14-lot major subdivision located in Little River Township with access provided via Berwick Place from Durham County.The proposed subdivision is part of the larger Hardscrabble Plantation project in the same county.The total area of the cluster subdivision is 29.73 acres,and the current zoning is AR Agricultural-Residential.A total of 15.94 acres is being divided into lots, 12.09 acres is to be set aside in open space, and 1.70 acres is included in street right-of-way.The overall project density is approximately one dwelling unit per 2.00 acres. All lots will be served by individual wells and septic tanks, and public roads. For Hardscrabble Cluster Subdivision, project build-out is estimated at two years. Housing units will be constructed,beginning in 1995,with completion of the project scheduled for 1996.Units will consist of detached single-family homes, and the applicant estimates the average sales price to be $200,000, including the lot. METHODOLOGY Fiscal impact analysis is a projection of the direct, current, public costs and revenues associated with residential and non residential growth in the jurisdiction in which the growth is taking place. Fiscal impact analysis considers only direct impact in that it projects only the primary costs that will be incurred and the immediate revenues that will be generated. It calculates the financial effect of a planned development or new.subdivision by considering the current costs and revenues such a development would generate if it were completed and occupied today.Fiscal impact analysis does not consider the private costs of public action. It is concerned only with public (governmental) costs and revenues. The method used in preparing the fiscal impact analysis is the Service Standard Approach. While only gross expenditures by service category are derived from the Per Capita Method,the Service Standard method determines the total number of additional employees by service function that will be required as a result of growth. This method employs average county government costs per person, average school costs per pupil, an employee to population ratio, and average operating expenses per employee for each service category and school district. The number of new employees are projected and multiplied times the average operating expenses(includes personnel,operating and capital costs)per employee. These average costs are then weighed against per capita and per pupil revenues to project the total net fiscal impact of the development.