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15 <br /> 1 Recreation; County Manager's Office; Animal Services Department; Health Department; and <br /> 2 County Capital Project Ordinance (911 Backup Center). <br /> 3 p. My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge Recommendation for Movement of <br /> 4 Youth (MOY) to be the Lead Agency for My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Orange <br /> 5 Initiative <br /> 6 The Board supported the recommendation from My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge <br /> 7 that unanimously approved for Movement of Youth (MOY) to become the lead agency in the <br /> 8 next phase of the My Brother's Keeper (MBK)-Orange County; and encouraged MOY to submit <br /> 9 an outside agency application to facilitate BOCC consideration of future financial support if <br /> 10 necessary. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 Chair Dorosin referred to the Item J- Southern Branch Library— Letter of Intent (LOl) to <br /> 13 Authorize Negotiating a Development Agreement Regarding the 203 S. Greensboro Street Site, <br /> 14 noting the Board's approval of this item, and the forward progress on this project. He also <br /> 15 noted that the Board approved Items K and L, for interlocal agreements related to the <br /> 16 construction of a sewer system in the Rogers Road Community. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 7. Regular Agenda <br /> 19 <br /> 20 a. Technical Resolution Regarding Grandfathering of Projects for School Impact Fee <br /> 21 Collection Purposes <br /> 22 The Board considered adoption of a technical resolution regarding grandfathering of <br /> 23 projects for collection of recently adopted updates to school impact fees. Three possible <br /> 24 resolutions are included as options: <br /> 25 <br /> 26 1. As proposed by staff at the December 5 BOCC meeting. <br /> 27 2. As proposed by Northwood Ravin, developer of Carraway Village in Chapel Hill. <br /> 28 3. Northwood Ravin proposal modified by staff to include an outer time limit on issuance <br /> 29 of a Certificate of Compliance (aka, Certificate of Occupancy). <br /> 30 <br /> 31 BACKGROUND: <br /> 32 On November 15 the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) adopted updated school impact <br /> 33 fees which will become effective January 1, 2017 (see Attachment 4) with incremental <br /> 34 increases each year through 2021. This represented a starting point of 43% of the "maximum <br /> 35 supportable impact fee" (MSIF) with increases of 7.5 percentage points each year for four <br /> 36 years. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 At the time of adoption, the BOCC directed staff to return with language that would allow for <br /> 39 projects that have reached certain project development milestones prior to January 1, 2017 to <br /> 40 be "grandfathered" for the 2016 fee levels but to have an outer time limit for the grandfathering. <br /> 41 This provision was requested primarily by multi-family developers because the impact fee for <br /> 42 multi-family units with 3+ bedrooms will increase on January 1, 2017 by $6,847 per unit in the <br /> 43 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district (CHCCS) and by $8,596 per unit in the Orange <br /> 44 County Schools district (OCS). Developers are concerned that projects that have already gone <br /> 45 through a lengthy project approval process but are not yet ready to begin construction will be <br /> 46 adversely impacted by these increases because financial analyses of these projects took into <br /> 47 account the existing impact fee levels ($1,286 in CHCCS and $1,743 in OCS). <br /> 48 <br /> 49 This topic was discussed at the December 5, 2016 BOCC meeting where concerns were <br /> 50 expressed by development interests that the construction timeline proposed by staff did not <br />