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Draft completed by Staff 6-04-03 <br />Exhibit A <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING [ORANGE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT <br />ORDINANCES] TO REQUIRE THAT THE ADEQUACY OF PUBLIC <br />SCHOOL FACILITIES TO ACCOMMODATE NEW DEVELOPMENT <br />BE CONSIDERED IN THE APPROVAL PROCESS <br />WHEREAS, the portion of Orange County served by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />City school system and the Orange County school system, have for the past decade been <br />experiencing rapid growth in population; and <br />WHEREAS, this rapid growth, and that which is anticipated, creates a demand for <br />additional school facilities to accommodate the children who reside within new <br />developments; and <br />WHEREAS, the responsibility for planning for and constructing new school <br />facilities lies primarily with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and the <br />Orange County Board of Education, with funding provided by Orange County; and <br />WHEREAS, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of <br />Education and Orange County on the one hand and Hillsborough, the Orange County <br />Board of Education and Orange County on the other hand have recognized the need to <br />work together to ensure that new growth within the School Districts occur at a pace that <br />allows Orange County and the School Districts to provide adequate school facilities to <br />serve the children within such new developments; and <br />WHEREAS, to implement the Memoranda of Understanding among Carrboro, <br />Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and Orange County and <br />among Hillsborough, the Orange County Board of Education and Orange County, the <br />of _ desires to provide a mechanism to assure <br />that, to the extent possible, new development will take place only when there are <br />adequate public school facilities available, or planned, which will accommodate such <br />new development; <br />NOW THEREFORE, <br />ORDAINS: <br />Section 1. Section of the Ordinance is amended by <br />adding a new to read as follows: <br />ADEQUATE PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES <br />1. Purpose. <br />The purpose of this ordinance is to ensure that, to the maximum extent practical, approval <br />of new residential development will become effective only when it can reasonably be <br />1 <br />