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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 17, 2000 <br />Action Agenda ~, I <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Draft Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Memorandum of <br />Understandin Transmittal <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />SLUC Resolution Recommending and <br />Transmitting the Schools APFO and <br />Memorandum of Understanding <br />Draft Memorandum of Understanding <br />Draft Schools Adequate Public Facilities <br />Ordinance <br />Tables -Debt Service; Future Capital Needs <br />Gledhill to BOCC 9/29/00 'Talking Points' Letter <br />Response to Commissioner Cordon's comments <br />Responsibility Chart <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig N. Benedict, ext. 2592 <br />Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane (336)227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss and transmit the proposed School Adequate Public Facilities <br />Memorandum of Understanding and ordinance including the forwarding of a resolution of <br />support from the Schools and Land Use Councils. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County Planning staff has been collaborating with the Schools and <br />Land Use Councils (SLUC), school and municipal staffs, and the attorneys for more than a <br />year on the development of a schools adequate public facilities ordinance (School APFO). <br />The fundamental purpose of such an ordinance would be to ensure, to the maximum extent <br />practical, that new residential development be synchronized and approved only when it can <br />reasonably be expected that adequate public school facilities will be available to <br />accommodate students who live in the new residential developments. <br />The SLUC -have worked long and diligently to examine this issue in detail during 2000. At <br />their meeting on September 13, they approved a resolution recommending that the proposed <br />Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance be formally transmitted to the County <br />Commissioners for review in general and specifically fiscal impacts, and then to the governing <br />boards of the municipalities and school systems for comment and suggested revisions. <br />The work session on October 2, 2000 provided an opportunity for the BOCC to discuss the <br />main provisions of the proposed School APFO, to review the process to date, and to discuss <br />possible next steps that would ultimately lead to adoption and implementation of a School <br />APFO in Orange County. Staff presented information regarding fiscal considerations of <br />