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4 Commissioner Weaver said her Board always starts with asking how will this benefit the community, and the traffic issue will be an issue to deal with going forward with any project. She said equity is important, and Hillsborough is the only municipality without a major affordable housing component. Commissioner Ferguson said while affordability is not a current issue, it is very near. Commissioner Rich said there will be about 3,000 units in the Collins Ridge development, and asked if it is known how many students this will mean. Margaret Hauth said she does not know, but all projects go through the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) and get CAPS (Certificate of Adequate Public Schools) prior to getting permits. Commissioner Rich asked if there is a way that the Board of County Commissioners should plan for the 3-5 years outlook for additional buses, per pupil funding, etc. Margaret Hauth said the memo from the OCS indicates 266 students per 1,000 units. She said this it is not an accurate number, as student generation rates are different based on number of bedrooms etc. She said she does not track those numbers, only the number of dwellings and then gets back the CAPS. Commissioner Rich asked if anyone tracks this projected student number, because it looks like a new school is being triggered. Bonnie Hammersley said students are tracked through the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO), and as the 5-year financial forecast is considered more detail will need to be added. She said growth and services are not affected on a one-to-one basis, nor is it a simple equation to calculate. Commissioner Ferguson said when this master plan was approved two years ago, OCS sent a letter about SAPFO. She asked if it was shared with the Board of County Commissioners. Chair Dorosin said he did not recall such a letter. Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director, said when a project is proposed the school board looks at existing capacity, and whether there is enough. He said two years ago there was capacity, especially at the elementary level. He said the quirk in the adequate public facilities system is that all elementary schools are added up together. He said the school that would service Collins Ridge is near over-capacity, but the adequate public facilities system would not rate it as such. He said the letter referred to a possible redistricting, which would have to be evaluated. He said the most recent letter from the BOE indicated that it is unclear where students will be placed, but did not mention capacity concerns. Margaret Hauth said the letter expressed a desire for the development to proceed, without a designation as to which schools the students would attend. Chair Dorosin asked if, when the CAPS get issued and development is assessed, is there a formula that says these types of units generate this number of students; and of those one can presume a certain percentage are elementary, another percentage middle school, and another percentage high school. Margaret Hauth said there is a student generation rate for each level of school (elementary, middle and high), for each dwelling unit type. She said there is a matrix of 12 numbers that are applied to the development as appropriate, and thus determine the total number of students. Chair Dorosin said unit x has a generation rate for each educational level, and asked if the CAPS counts all three levels. Craig Benedict said a single-family unit usually generates 0.6 children on average, and of that, 0.3 is usually elementary age, and 0.15 and 0.15 are middle and high school age. He said if any one of those capacities is not adequate, then the bell rings and the project must be delayed until capacity is made available. He said there are two parts of the system: the CAPS