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HOME Home Builders Association of Durham and Chapel Hill <br /> CIATION <br /> of Durham&Chapel Hill 20 W, Colony Place• Suite 180• Durham, North Carolina 27705 • Phone 919/493-8899• FAX 919/490-5905 <br /> June 7, 1993 <br /> Verla Insko <br /> Qrange County Commissioner <br /> 610 Surry Rd. <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br /> Dear Ms. Insko, <br /> On behalf of the entire membership of the Home Builders Association <br /> of Durham and Chapel Hill I would like to express our concern over <br /> the commissions recent decision to assess an impact fee for school <br /> construction on all new dwelling units built or placed in Orange <br /> County. We do not disagree with the need to provide proper <br /> facilities for educating our youth but we do disagree with the cost <br /> being funded by a small select segment of the tax paying <br /> population, the new home buyer. <br /> The residential units that have been projected and publicized to <br /> the general public are of a great concern to us as well . Even with <br /> a 3 .39% projected growth rate we are still unsure where the total <br /> number of units that are to generate the revenue are going to come <br /> from. We have listed below some facts of the numbers of <br /> residential units that have been built in Orange County over the <br /> last five years. These numbers represent single family and multi <br /> family built on site units. <br /> Year Single family Multi family Total <br /> 1993 63 to date 0 63 <br /> 1992 538 59 597 <br /> 1991 409 77 486 <br /> 1990 414 37 451 <br /> 1989 432 37 469 <br /> 1988 537 69 606 <br /> Even in the highest production year of 1988 with 606 units built <br /> the impact fees raised at $750.00 per unit would only have been <br /> $454, 500.00. <br /> (LIP �n c4ffi�Cafc of t/ cNational ogssociaLion of ol{ome uitd ts" <br />