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School District <br />Orange Chapel Hill - <br />Ho T e County - Qrrbcro <br />Single - Family $2,747 $3,194 <br />Duplex, Triplex, Quadplex $ 772 $ 843 <br />Garden Apartment $ 504 $ 788 <br />Townhouse $ 778 $1,597 <br />Mobile Home $2,011 $2,629 <br />COLLECTION OF IMPACT FEES <br />The most widely used method for collecting impact fees is when <br />application is made for a building permit. Prior to a-building <br />permit being issued, all required impact fees must have been paid. <br />This practice is not only administratively easier, it is also <br />consistent with the County's current policy of collecting tap -on <br />fees for the Efland sewer project. <br />An alternative collection method proposed by representatives <br />of the Homebuilders Association and Board of Realtors is to collect <br />impact fees when a Certificate of Occupancy is requested. It is at- <br />that time that a housing unit has been completed, final building <br />inspections have been completed, and the prospective purchaser is <br />ready to "close" on the unit and move in. The impact fees may be <br />incorporated as part of closing costs or they may be included as <br />part of the mortgage loan. The basic rationale behind this <br />collection method is that the costs associated with school capital <br />needs are paid directly by the new household creating the demand <br />for additional facilities. <br />A final collection method suggested recently and used by <br />jurisdictions in other states is to collect the impact fees at the <br />time of development plan approval; e.g., subdivision or planned <br />development approval. While impact fees, or "development fees" as <br />they are called, could be collected using this method, lots in a <br />development may sit empty for years, and the County may find itself <br />in the position of having to refund fees for lots that are not <br />developed in the CIP period. In addition, collecting fees on lots <br />in new developments does not address the issue of collecting fees <br />for homes constructed on existing lots. <br />To derive estimates of the amount of impact fees which might <br />be collected during the FY 1992 -93 to FY 1997 -98 period, the growth <br />in the Orange County housing stock was analyzed from 1980 to 1990 <br />[see Table 21]. Because of inconsistencies in data sources, the <br />range of housing types had to be narrowed somewhat, and census <br />tract data had to be used to estimate the number and type of <br />housing units in the Chapel Hill- Carrboro School District. Although <br />Page - 17 <br />1 <br />