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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 13, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 7-a <br /> SUBJECT: Technical Resolution Regarding Grandfathering of Projects for School Impact <br /> Fee Collection Purposes <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br /> 1. Resolution —As Proposed by Staff at Craig Benedict, Planning Director, 245- <br /> December 5, 2016 BOCC Meeting 2592 <br /> 2. Resolution —As Proposed by Perdita Holtz, Planner III, 245-2578 <br /> Northwood Ravin <br /> 3. Resolution —As Proposed by <br /> Northwood Ravin and Modified by Staff <br /> to Include Outer Limit for Issuance of <br /> Certificate of Compliance <br /> 4. Adopted School Impact Fee Levels <br /> 5. Timeframe Flowcharts, Pertaining to <br /> Resolution in Attachment 1 <br /> 6. E-mail from Town of Hillsborough Staff <br /> PURPOSE: To consider adoption of a technical resolution regarding grandfathering of projects <br /> for collection of recently adopted updates to school impact fees. Three possible resolutions are <br /> included as options: <br /> 1. As proposed by staff at the December 5 BOCC meeting. <br /> 2. As proposed by Northwood Ravin, developer of Carraway Village in Chapel Hill. <br /> 3. Northwood Ravin proposal modified by staff to include an outer time limit on issuance <br /> of a Certificate of Compliance (aka, Certificate of Occupancy). <br /> BACKGROUND: On November 15 the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) adopted <br /> updated school impact fees which will become effective January 1, 2017 (see Attachment 4) <br /> with incremental increases each year through 2021. This represented a starting point of 43% of <br /> the "maximum supportable impact fee" (MSIF) with increases of 7.5 percentage points each <br /> year for four years. <br /> At the time of adoption, the BOCC directed staff to return with language that would allow for <br /> projects that have reached certain project development milestones prior to January 1, 2017 to <br /> be "grandfathered" for the 2016 fee levels but to have an outer time limit for the grandfathering. <br /> This provision was requested primarily by multi-family developers because the impact fee for <br /> multi-family units with 3+ bedrooms will increase on January 1, 2017 by $6,847 per unit in the <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district (CHCCS) and by $8,596 per unit in the Orange <br />