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16 PUBLIC COMMENT: Jacob Rogers is with the Triangle Apartments Association, and he thanked the Board for pausing the process to let them be involved. He said thank you to Planning staff for meeting with their various stakeholders. He said he wanted to address the zoning compliance permit, and asked that the same rights be added in subsequent years. He said they also agreed with starting in year one at 37% of MSIF, with annual increases of 5 percentage points of MSIF per year, instead of 10. Aaron Nelson said thank you to the Board of County Commissioners and staff for listening to their input during the process. He said impact fees are not the first choice for building schools, but they understand the need. He said they support bedroom count, and the 50/50 model. He referred to the grandmothering issue noting it is only for the first year, and he is asking them to extend this grandmothering clause. He said they liked the small home idea, and the refining of the categories. He asked if the Board could go slower with the fee increases. Commissioner Price said she appreciated the public input, but she still has problems seeing the fairness and equity in these proposed tables. She understands the goal, but there are too many inequities. Commissioner Rich said the public speakers were speaking about grandmothering, and asked staff if there are loopholes in this proposal where the County is losing money for the schools. Craig Benedict said there is grandmothering in this year, and the ability to pay this year's rates into next year; but those grandmothering in in late 2017 should know impact fees have changed, and should have worked this into their business plan. Commissioner Rich asked if there is an advantage to giving developers the option to choose which fee to pay. Craig Benedict said developers are being given the benefit of the doubt that their current business plan can continue, with the current fees. Commissioner Price asked Craig Benedict if he finds this proposal to be fair and equitable. Craig Benedict said the impact fees are based on methodology that is legally defensible, and the legally defensible matrix is to evaluate the student generation rate that comes from certain housing types, and certain bedroom counts. He said it is equitable because it has been found that these certain housing types and bedroom counts generate more students, and there is a direct linkage to the fee, and the impacts that come from these housing categories. Commissioner Price asked if the study tracked trends. Craig Benedict said two studies were completed, and one had to do with the last 10 years of growth (2004-2014), which showed trends of more multi-family homes being built in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. He said when determining impact fees, the entire housing stock must be reviewed because housing can be multi-family/student housing at one point, and then become family housing 20 years down the road. Commissioner Dorosin said he wanted to clarify the issues before the Board, so he can see a path to a decision: --recommendation choice: 75/25, 50/50 --three-year window incentive to get more accurate data and spacing --whether or not to do something different about grandmothering Commissioner Pelissier said she wanted to go with the 75/25 scenario; keep to 10% acceleration rate; and grandmothering only once, at the beginning.