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7 <br /> 1 <br /> 2 2016 School Impact Fee Studies <br /> 3 Joint BOCC/School Boards Meeting <br /> 4 September 29, 2016 <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Overview <br /> 7 • School Impact Fees <br /> 8 o Enabling legislation in 1987 <br /> 9 o Fees first adopted in 1993 <br /> 10 o Help defray the public costs of new residential development <br /> 11 o Used to provide greater student capacity (e.g., new or expanded school <br /> 12 buildings) <br /> 13 Cannot be used to fund operations or repairs of existing facilities <br /> 14 • Updated technical studies done every few years to ensure the fees remain proportional <br /> 15 to the actual impacts caused <br /> 16 • Most recent studies (one for each school district) completed in summer 2016 <br /> 17 • Over the years, types of housing has become more refined <br /> 18 o Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and digital data make this possible <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Refined Housing Type Categories <br /> 21 • 1993 —fee charged per dwelling, regardless of type <br /> 22 • Each technical study has refined housing types a bit more <br /> 23 o Single-family &All Other <br /> 24 o Single-family, Manufactured Homes, All Other <br /> 25 o Single-family Detached, Single-family Attached, Multi-family, Manufactured <br /> 26 Homes <br /> 27 • Current study disaggregated data down to number of bedrooms per unit (SFD, SFA, <br /> 28 MF) <br /> 29 o Calculations for smaller-sized single-family detached (<800 square feet) <br /> 30 o Age-Restricted Units <br /> 31 <br /> 32 2016 Study <br /> 33 Full studies available on website: <br /> 34 http://www.orangecountync.gov/departments/planning and inspections/current interest proiect <br /> 35 s.php <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Julie Herlands from TichlerBise presented this portion of PowerPoint: <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Orange County Draft Educational Facilities Fees <br /> 40 --Orange County Schools <br /> 41 --Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br /> 42 <br /> 43 Presentation Overview <br /> 44 • Introduction <br /> 45 • Overview <br /> 46 o Impact Fees <br /> 47 o Process for the Studies <br /> 48 • Impact Fee Results (by System) <br /> 49 o Methodologies <br />