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9 <br /> deliberately selective to avoid such situations in the future. <br /> SUMMARY OF EXCEPTION REQUESTS AND ACTIONS TAKEN <br /> Justification Proiect/Units Action <br /> Failing septic systems <br /> • Mobile home park 6 MHP/55 Spaces Approved <br /> • Individual lot 1 Lot/1 Unit Approved <br /> Subdivision approval <br /> • Approval time 1 Lot/1 Unit Denied <br /> • Unit moved 1 Lot/1 Unit Approved <br /> Temporary housing <br /> • Damaged unit 1 Lot/1 Unit Approved <br /> Other <br /> • Loan delay 1 Lot/1 Unit Denied <br /> • Time/finances 1 Lot/1 Unit Denied <br /> Another reason cited by the park owners is the desire not to end up with failing septic systems. <br /> Some parks have spaces which are served by individual systems as well as community systems. Park <br /> owners have deliberately left some spaces vacant for a limited time period or been very selective in the <br /> size (number of bedrooms) of the home to avoid overtaxing individual systems. <br /> Finally, park owners have indicated that mobile home parks are somewhat like apartment <br /> complexes;e.g.,vacancy rates vary from one year to the next,and there is no real way of knowing whether <br /> the park will be near capacity or left with many vacant spaces. <br /> These situations as well as the administrative time associated with processing mobile home park <br /> requests (and replacement units in general) suggest a return to the original intent of the ordinance; e.g., <br /> essentially a"grandfather" provision. One exception is noted, though, and it is the need to establish some <br /> time limit on vacant lots or spaces. Five years prior to the effective date of the ordinance is suggested, <br /> since that period has been used as a general amortization period for nonconforming signs and uses in <br /> North Carolina communities. An ordinance amendment is necessary to establish such a time limit. <br /> The current ordinance (Section 4.4) allows the replacement of residential building or mobile home <br /> with the same dwelling type. This provision does not recognize that a family living in a mobile home may <br /> wish to replace it with a stick-built structure. An ordinance amendment is needed to provide such <br /> flexibility. <br /> Schedule of Fees. The amount of the public school impact fee is $750 per residential dwelling <br /> unit. The fee is the same in both the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school districts. <br /> which <br /> Information is still being compiled througlkto identify a"sliding scale" of impact fees. Examples of <br /> a sliding scale include a fee based on the number oedrooms,the type of housing unit,the square footage <br /> of the housinf unit or the cost of the housing unit.Regardless of the scale used,it must relate directly back <br /> to the number of school-age children per household. Collection of information through which to establish <br /> this relationship could be presented for the Board of Commissioners at the scheduled January 12, 1995 <br /> work session. <br /> Annual Report 7 <br />