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Report on Maximum Supportable School Impact Fee Study
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Board of Aldermen to receive a report on the recently completed study of the maximum supportable impact fee that could be applied to new residential construction in support of Chapel Hill Carrboro City School facilities.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Patricia McGuire, 919-918-7327, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org; Perdita Holtz, 919-245-2578, pholtz@orangecountync.gov
INFORMATION: Orange County received approval from the NC General Assembly in 1987 to charge impact fees to new development in relation to the provision of public school facilities. Studies to determine the appropriate fee have been conducted several times, with the most recent undertaken in 2015. Orange County contracted with a consultant, TischlerBise, to conduct a study for both the Orange County School (OCS) and Chapel Hill Carrboro City School (CHCCS) districts to determine the "Maximum Supportable Impact Fee" (MSIF) that could be charged to new residential construction. TischlerBise has completed the work and the draft impact fee report for CHCCS is attached (Attachment A). Orange County Planning staff member, Perdita Holtz, will be attending the meeting to provide a brief presentation on the study.
Historically, the Board of County Commissioners has not adopted the MSIF but, instead, has adopted fee levels at a lesser amount. For the past two updates (2001 and 2008), fee levels were adopted at 60 percent of the MSIF or a phased transition to 60 percent. Current fees may be viewed at http://www.orangecountync.gov/document_center/PlanningInspections/School_Impact_Fees.pdf
The recently completed studies disaggregate unit types by the number of bedrooms a unit contains and also break out smaller sized (less than 800 square feet) detached units. The studies includes information on Age Restricted Units as well. Previous studies did not disaggregate housing t...
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