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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 27, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) YES ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict, Planning Director, ext 2592 Draft Schools Adequate Public Facilities Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney Ordinance TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To hear public comment on the proposed School Adequate Public Facilities ordinance. BACKGROUND: Orange County Planning staff has been collaborating with the Schools and Land Use Councils (SLUG), school and municipal staffs, and the attorneys for more than a year on the development of a schools adequate public facilities ordinance (School APFO). The fundamental purpose of such an ordinance would be to ensure, to the maximum extent practical, that new residential development be synchronized and approved only when it can reasonably be expected that adequate public school facilities will be available to accommodate students who live in the new residential developments. The SLUG have worked long and diligently to examine this issue in detail during 2000. At their meeting on September 13, they approved a resolution recommending that the proposed Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance be formally transmitted to the County Commissioners for review in general and specifically fiscal impacts, and then to the governing boards of the municipalities and school systems for comment and suggestive revisions. The work session on October 2, 2000 provided an opportunity for the BOCC to discuss the main provisions of the proposed School APFO, to review the process to date, and to discuss possible next steps that would ultimately lead to adoption and implementation of a School APFO in Orange County. Staff presented information regarding fiscal considerations of School APFO implementation, and set forth talking points that focused BOCC discussion on several important decisions the Board must make regarding the elements of the School APFO to be enacted.