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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 4, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Impact Fee Reimbursement <br />DEPARTMENT: Housing/Comm. Development PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Tara L. Fikes, ext 2490 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the impact fee reimbursement request from Habitat for Humanity of <br />Orange County, NC, Inc. for $6,000 for eight new homes. <br />BACKGROUND: On November 1, 1995, the BOCC approved a policy for impact fee <br />reimbursement to local non-profit organizations that met the established eligibility criteria. <br />This policy was last revised on March 4, 1998. <br />The policy requires the following: <br />1. Hauling must be developed for first-time homebuyers with incomes at or below 80% <br />of HUD published median income far the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA; <br />2. Affordable housing is defined as owner-occupied housing which can be purchased for <br />no more than 2.5 times annual family income;. and <br />3. The non-profit organization must certify in writing that, for owner-occupied housing, it <br />will remain affordable to the anticipated beneficiary or beneficiaries for a period of a <br />minimum of ninety-nine (99) years. This requirement will be secured by a Declaration <br />of Restrictive Covenants. <br />4. The non-profit organization is responsible for providing documentation of impact fee <br />payment. <br />The County has received a reimbursement request for $6,000 from Habitat for Humanity of <br />Orange County, NC, Inc. (HHOC) for eight homes being built in the unincorporated areas of <br />the County. Specifically, six of the units are in Chestnut Oaks, the existing Habitat subdivision <br />in the Bingham Township and the other two are on Cain Drive in Efland. HHOC has provided <br />evidence that the impact fee for all eight homes has been paid and house construction is in <br />varying degrees of completion. Two (2) of the homes have been completed and Habitat <br />anticipates completion of the remaining six (6) homes by April 2001. <br />