Orange County commissioners have approved a plan to raise impact fees in each of the next four years.
The fees are intended to raise money for schools needs and vary by home type and differ by school system. But some increases are dramatic. By 2012, a developer building a new single-family home in Carrboro or Chapel Hill will pay $11,423. That's up from $4,407 now.
In the county, the fee on a single-family home will increase from $3,000 now to $5,623 in four years.
Some builders say the impact fees, particularly in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, will act as a deterrent, and one commissioner, Pam Hemminger, wondered aloud Thursday night whether raising fees so much would actually reduce revenue if builders simply stopped doing business here.
"If we raise the rates and get zero income, that's not a good plan," she said.
Omar Zinn, a local builder, told commissioners Thursday night that home sales are down 30 percent or more and many of his colleagues in the business are hurting.
"I know it's been seven years since we've had an increase," Zinn said. "But to have it at this time - to say it's a bad decision is an understatement."
You can read the entire rundown of fee increases for all types of homes on pages 2 and 3 of the attached document.
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Mon, 01/10/2011 - 09:03 — jwiebeI recently moved a home from Chapel Hill to Efland, reducing the size of the home from a four bedroom duplex to a three bedroom single family home. I was outraged when the county tried to exact a $3,000.00 impact fee from me. By the work and money I spent, 1600 square feet of trash was kept from the landfill. In addition, the overall "impact" on the school system was a negative one bedroom. I am still objecting to the fee, which of course means, I cannot get a certificate of occupance and get the power turned on...We will see how it turns out.
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There's money for 2 wars, subsidizing nuclear power,
Sun, 12/14/2008 - 15:36 — marcoplosbailing out knuckleheads that crashed big banking, lining the pockets of big highway contractors, but no money for our local needs. So we are reduced to scraping around and giving consideration to business activity that may harm our region. We know where the money is. We should go get it.
Subsidizing Nuclear power?
Sun, 12/14/2008 - 18:38 — elvisboy77How, pray tell? By paying our electric bills?
Sounds like more NC WARN nonsense.
Uranium enrichment is subsidized
Sun, 12/14/2008 - 19:44 — marcoplosAnd no insurance company is stupid enough to cover nuclear accidents, so the governmenmt does it. Furthermore, taxpayers foot the bill for radioactive waste transportaion & storage.
Maybe you should take a deep breath and educate yourself before you knee-jerk the next time, anonymous elvisboy. But I guess it doesn't really matter, since you don't have the basic integrity to identify yourself.
Hmmm
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 07:39 — elvisboy77So the Gov't is going to provide "free" storage for Nuclear Power plants?? That is news to me.
Why do you think Yucca Mt. is held up
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 09:29 — marcoplosin Congress?
Two observations
Fri, 12/12/2008 - 23:12 — marcoplos1) Impact fees are almost always discussed as fees that the builders have to pay. There is a difference between builders and developers. Builders build homes that their customers contract with them to build. The customers end up paying the impact fee. Developers build many homes in the hopes of selling them. In the end, the customers end up paying the impact fee. So don't shed any tears for the poor developers.
2) The $1 million cost of one Tomahawk missile (hundreds were rained down on Baghdad on the first night of "shock and awe") would pay 177 new impact fees.
They just don't get it and never will.
Fri, 12/12/2008 - 19:02 — elvisboy77None of the local "leaders" have any sense of what you are talking about. With a few exceptions, none of them understand basic economics. All they want to do is keep turning the crank and generate more dollars from the wallets of hapless homeowners via skyrocketing taxes and fees.
Eventually, their anti-business attitude (Wal Mart is Evil!) will take its toll, it is only a matter of time. What is most amazing to me is the tolerance and lack of outrage from the average home owner in Orange Co and to a larger extent Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
At the risk of repeating
Fri, 12/12/2008 - 14:05 — anitabadrockAt the risk of repeating myself, the reason we're talking about housing impact fees is because we haven't diversified our tax base enough with other types of development to pay for the services we want. I hope this refocuses our attention so that we can be ready to welcome other types of development once the economic climate makes it possible. This is an opportune time to review our economic development strategies, make some decisions about what kind of economic development activity we want in this county, and put a plan together to go out and recruit it. That's the only way to give our homeowners some relief.
One way
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 14:39 — TBlaketo diversify the tax base is to have the university pay it's fair share of county taxes :)
(I am putting on my asbestos underwear now.....)