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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 2, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. a <br />SUBJECT: Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Na <br />ATTACHMENT{S): <br />Draft Schools Adequate Public Facilities <br />Ordinance <br />Draft Memorandum of Understanding <br />SLUC Resolution Recommending and <br />Transmitting the Schools APFO and <br />Memorandum of Understanding <br />Tables -Debt Service; Future Capital Needs <br />Talking Points <br />(to be sent under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, ext 2592 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-81$1 <br />Chapel Hill 968501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the proposed schools adequate public facilities ordinance. <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 mare than a year <br />on the development of a schools adequate public facilities ordinance (SAPFO). The <br />fundamental purpose of such an ordinance would be to ensure, to the maximum extent <br />practical, that new residential development be approved only when it can reasonably be <br />expected that adequate public school facilities will be available to accommodate students who <br />would live in the new residential developments. <br />The SLUC have worked long and diligently to examine this issue in detail during 2000. At their <br />last 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, and then to the governing boards of the municipalities and school systems far <br />comment and suggested revisions. <br />This work session provides an opportunity for the BOCC to discuss the main provisions of the <br />proposed SAPFO, to review the process to date, and to discuss possible next steps that would <br />ultimately lead to adoption and implementation of a SAPFO in Orange County. Staff will briefly <br />present information regarding fiscal considerations of SAPFO implementation, and a set of <br />talking points that will help focus BOCC discussion an several important decisions the Board <br />must make regarding the elements of the SAPFO to be enacted. After the BOCC provides <br />direction on any needed refinements to the draft ordinance and related interlacal memorandum <br />