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Using Impact Fees to Fund Capital Improvements for Public <br /> <br /> Schools: The Orange County Experiment <br /> <br /> by Richard D. Ducker <br /> <br /> On June 7, 1993, the Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted <br />an ordinance establishing a system of impact fees imposed on new <br />development in the county to raise funds to finance new school constructionJ <br />The ordinance, which became effective July 1, 1993, imposes a fiat $750 fee on <br />each new residential unit built within the county. Revenues are earmarked for <br />school construction needs in the school administrative unit2 in which the <br /> <br /> ~. Orange County, N.C., Educational Facilities Impacl Fee Ordinance (June 7, 1993), § 5(C)(1) <br /> (hereinafter Orange County Impact Fee Ordinance). <br /> <br />2 Orange County includes two public school administrative units--the Orange County Schools <br />and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro unit serves students who live <br />within the municipalities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro as well as those who live in a portion of the <br />unincorporated area of Chapel Hill Township, one of seven townships in the county. The Orange <br />County unit includes the remainder of the counly, including the area within the Town of <br />Hillsborough and portions of the municipalities of Mebane and Durham. More students attend <br />the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. The ~final average daily membership (ADM) for grad. es K <br />{hrough 12 for the city system in 1992-93 was 6,822; the final ADM for the county schools was <br /> <br />23 <br /> <br /> <br />