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r <br />1 1,992 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: <br />DEAR COMMISSIONERS: <br />JOSEPH W. & JOANNE B. TELLO <br />FLINT RIDGE APTS. #45 <br />600 S. CHURTON ST. <br />HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. 27278 <br />May 18, 1992 <br />DISTRIBUTED <br />- -/,3 /C <br />I am carting this letter to express my astonishment of your consideration of "IMPACT FEES" <br />on new housing construction in Orange County for the purpose of helping in the financing of <br />new school construction. I would be attending the May 26 meeting of this issue except that <br />my daughter will have had a rather serious operation the friday before the scheduled meeting. <br />Elected goverment officials wounder why the genral public is so turned off and disgusted with <br />the polititians and yet, it exactly this type of issue that Qutrages the general public. Some of you <br />have just gone through an election and have used the word FAIR The word fair and the issue <br />of impact fees is hypocrisy at its best. <br />The financial support of the school system has always been the responsibility of ALL the tax <br />payers,whether or not they had children. Taxes are the FAIR means of financially supporting <br />our educational system which ALL of us have a common stake and interest. <br />Impact fees are:* 1) discriminatory; #2) they punish people who have children, (is this the <br />commissioners idea of enacting a birth control ordinance for Orange County ?); #3)they are anti- <br />- growth; people at the lower end of the income spectrum will not be given the opportunity to <br />partake in the ever increasing elusive American dream of owning a home in the location of thier <br />choice (is this the commissioners way of dealing with the low income constiuency of the county ?. <br />The article in THE NEWS OF ORANGE COUNTY Wed., April 22, 1992 stated that some housing <br />would have to apply a for special waiver. I wounder if the commissioners have considered who <br />else would qualify for special waivers. How about those couples who build who have no <br />children, either by choice or other circumstances? How about those couples already living in <br />orange county who are planning on building another house in Orange County but will not add <br />any additional children to the school system? Are impact fees FAIR to them? <br />For my wife and myself, our situation is one of a childless couple (we can not have children of <br />our own) we have choosen to be foster parents to a severly handicapped child. We have just <br />recently sold our house at 3906 Schley Rd., Hillsborough, N.C. to build a house again in Orange <br />