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pRq~' SCHOOL IMPACT FEES: Cw~ee~ Hiu.-C~aORO Ctrr SCHOOLS <br />Orange County, North Carolina <br />BUILDING AND SITE LEVEL OF SERVICE STANDARDS <br />This section provides current inventories of elementary, middle, and high schools in the Chapel <br />Hill-Carrboro City Schools System. The data contained in these tables are used to determine <br />infrastructure standards for school buildings and sites on which the impact fees are based. <br />The Orange County Schools Adequate Public Facility Ordinance (SAPFO) and Memorandum of <br />Understanding (Annual Report 2007) provides current adopted levels of service by school type <br />that are used for the impact fee study. Level of service means the amount of students that can be <br />accommodated at a certain school system level. Figure 4 provides the adopted LOS standards. <br />Figure 4. Level of Service Standards: Chapel Iiili-Carrboro City Schools <br />LEVEL OF SERVICE STANDARDS CHCCS <br />Elementary (K 5) 105% <br />Middle (6-8) 107% <br />High (9-12) 110% <br />Source: Orange County, NC, Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Annual Report 2007. <br />CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS <br />The inventory and current levels of service for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City elementary schools <br />are shown below in Figure 5. As indicated below, elementary school buildings have a total of <br />639,141 square feet of floor area on approximately 123.8 acres. Total enrollment in all <br />elementary schools is 4,980. <br />Level of service (LOS) factors for CHCCS elementary schools are also shown in Figure 5. T'he <br />Adopted LOS Standards (based on 105 percent capacity) for land, school buildings, and <br />portables are shown shaded in the figure below. As shown the LOS factors on which the impact <br />fees are based are• 025 acres 130 square feet and 0051 portable classrooms per student. It <br />should be noted that the capacity figures reflect mandated reduced class size for Grades K-3 <br />from 1:23 to 1:21, reflecting actual current levels of service and the standards by which new <br />schools will be planned. <br />Tischler~<se 12 <br />ifLt,C[P^.~ntiCdi.PiiRtl(ItS~CIf'.L?I]IIIS <br />