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ORANGE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE <br />SECTION 1 -LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners makes the following legislative findings: <br />1. Orange County public school facilities are vital to the health, safety, welfare, and <br />economic prosperity of Orange County; <br />2. That public school facilities in Orange County must be expanded in order to maintain <br />current levels of service if new development is to be accommodated without <br />decreasing .current levels of service; <br />3. To finance the expansion of the public school facilities in Orange County necessary <br />to maintain current levels of service while accommodating new residential growth, <br />several methods of finance will be employed, one of which will require new <br />residential development to pay an appropriate share of the reasonably anticipated <br />new educational facilities in the form of school impact fees; and <br />4. These school impact fees will provide, in a reasonable manner, for the public health, <br />safety, and welfare of persons residing within Orange County by providing a portion <br />of the costs of new school facilities which bears a relationship to the benefits of the <br />new school facilities to the new residential growth in Orange County. <br />SECTION 2 -DEFINITIONS <br />For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms shall have the following <br />definitions: <br />Certificate of Occupancx. A certificate issued by Orange County ar a municipality <br />located therein allowing the occupancy or use of a dwelling unit and certifying that the <br />building or structure has been constructed and will be used in compliance with all <br />applicable codes and ordinances. <br />Dwelling Unit. A room or group of rooms forming a single independent habitable unit <br />with facilities used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating by <br />one family. <br />Feepayer. The person constructing or responsible for having constructed a new <br />dwelling unit or new dwelling units. In the case of a mobile home, the person installing <br />or responsible for having installed a new mobile home or new mobile homes. <br />Ympact Fee Ordinance 3 <br />