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Housing Type <br />Single - Family <br />(1 Unit, Detached) <br />Townhouse <br />(1 Unit, Attached) <br />Duplex, Triplex, <br />and Quadplex <br />(2 to 4 Units) <br />Apartment <br />(5 or More Units) <br />Mobile Home <br />The schedules <br />implementing impact <br />maximums. <br />Chapel Hill - Carrboro <br />Orange <br />County <br />, <br />School <br />District <br />School <br />District <br />$482 <br />Million <br />Million <br />- <br />Million <br />Million <br />$512 <br />-- <br />$768 <br />---- - - - - -- <br />$363 <br />---- - - - - -- <br />$726 <br />' <br />$258 <br />$386 <br />$153 <br />$306 <br />$204 <br />$305 <br />$147 <br />$294 <br />, <br />$140 <br />$210 <br />$ 98 <br />$197 <br />$350 <br />$525 <br />$241 <br />$482 <br />summarized above represent one means of , <br />fees at levels lower than the calculated <br />Im act Fee - Number of Bedroom <br />Another major issue identified in the discussion of <br />affordability is the regressive nature of any kind of fee schedule; <br />e.g., low- income families must pay a proportionately higher cost <br />than upper income families. While setting impact fees based on the <br />income of families seriously erodes the defensibility of the <br />system, graduating housing types by the number of bedrooms in a <br />unit addresses the regressive nature of any fee schedule. The <br />rationale in using "number of bedrooms" is that the more bedrooms a <br />home has, the higher the cost'of construction, and the higher the <br />family income must be to pay the mortgage. In addition, there is a <br />relationship between the number of bedrooms in a home and the <br />number of children; e.g., more bedrooms equates with more children <br />or students. <br />To derive student generation rates by housing type and number <br />of bedrooms, calculations were made using 1980 and 1990 census <br />data, and the average number of school age children per dwelling <br />unit for structures built between 1975 and 1980 in the South <br />Atlantic region. The calculations are identical to those made at <br />the beginning of this report except the additional variable of <br />"number of bedrooms" was introduced. As was the case in the initial <br />calculations, student generation rates were adjusted to reflect <br />conditions in Orange County in 1990; e.g., decline in persons per <br />household, public versus private school attendance, and enrollment <br />by school type. <br />On Tables 30 and 32, final student generation rates, by grade <br />category, housing type, and number of bedrooms, are shown for the <br />Chapel Hill- Carrboro and Orange County School Districts, <br />respectively. Using these generation rates and the schedules of <br />impact fees developed previously, an alternative series of fee <br />schedules were calculated to reflect the number of bedrooms in each <br />Page - 20 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />`J <br />