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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 20, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-f <br /> SUBJECT: Impact Fee Reimbursement Request — Habitat for Humanity <br /> DEPARTMENT: Housing, Human Rights & <br /> Community Development <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Letter of Request from Habitat for Annette Moore, Interim Director, Housing <br /> Humanity Human Rights and Community <br /> Development, (919) 245-2492 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the reimbursement of impact fees requested by Habitat for Humanity <br /> in the amount of $33,738 for six (6) homes constructed in Orange County for low income <br /> persons. <br /> BACKGROUND: On November 1, 1995, the BOCC approved a policy for impact fee <br /> reimbursement to local non-profit organizations that met established eligibility criteria (last <br /> revised on March 4, 1998). Since that time, the County has budgeted money in the Affordable <br /> Housing Reserve for the purpose of reimbursing impact fees for qualifying agencies and <br /> properties. <br /> The Housing Impact Reimbursement Policy requires, in pertinent part, that: <br /> • Reimbursements will only be made to a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which (1) <br /> develops affordable housing to be owner-occupied by first-time homebuyers with <br /> incomes at or below 80% of the HUD published area median income (AMI) for the <br /> Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); and <br /> • Affordable Housing is defined as owner-occupied housing which can be purchased for <br /> no more than 2.5 times annual family income; and <br /> • The organization requesting the impact fee reimbursement must certify in writing that the <br /> owner-occupied housing will remain affordable to the anticipated beneficiary or <br /> beneficiaries for a period of a minimum of twenty (20) years or longer if required by an <br /> applicable HUD policy. <br /> The County has received an impact fee reimbursement request from Habitat for Humanity, a <br /> non-profit corporation, for $33,738 for the construction of six (6) single-family, owner-occupied <br /> homes in Efland (Tinnin Woods). Staff has reviewed the request, sufficient information on each <br /> home buyer so as to determine the income and number of persons in each household, and the <br /> average construction budget for the houses and the receipts from the paid impact fees. Habitat <br /> has provided evidence that the impact fees for the referenced properties were paid and the <br />