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Setting the Fees <br /> <br /> Concerns about equity arose when the fee calculations were complete. <br />According to the calculations, new residents located in the county school <br />administrative unit could be charged more than new residents in the city school <br />administrative unit even though, by most measures, the city unit was the <br />wealthier unit._.The county decided to address the inter-unit equity question in <br />two ways. First, any fee adopted would be set at amounts substantially lower <br />than the amounts that could be justified by the analysis. Fees in the range <br />$500-$750 were analyzed. Second, the board of county commissioners <br />decided that the impact fee per dwelling unit would be the same for new <br />residential development regardless of whether it was located within the <br />jurisdiction of the city schools or the county schools. Some county residents, <br />however, believed that even if the impact fee were identical for both districts, <br />equity could be achieved only if the county divided all of the impact fee <br />proceeds equally between the county district and the city district. The county <br />refused to do so, however', since spending funds collected in one district for the <br />benefit of those living in another district would violate the benefit and <br />proportionality principles of impact fee jurisprudence and jeopardize the <br />ordinance. <br /> <br />Other Legal Issues <br /> <br />Exemptions <br /> <br /> From the beginning of its consideration of impact fees, the county was <br />concerned about how the fees would affect the affordability of housing. It was <br />widely assumed that the developers and builders of residential housing would <br />shift the cost of the fee forward to the purchaser of a new ho0se or to the tenant <br /> <br />53 <br /> <br /> <br />