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NHC PLANNING BOARD UNANIMOUSLY REMOVES ILLEGAL APFOs PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 08 July 2011 11:17
For the past several years, BASE staff has been addressing an issue in New Hanover County which has cost our members millions of dollars in illegal school fees, land donations and fire fees. These fees or land donations were “required” by the Planned Development (PD) district in the form of Adequate Public Facility Ordinances (APFOs) which have shown to be illegal around North Carolina. In fact, several jurisdictions have voluntarily refunded illegal APFO fees instead of facing legal challenges. In New Hanover County, the PD district’s illegal provisions impact 5 specific subdivisions: Landfall, Northchase, River Lights, Rose Hill Landing and Blue Clay Farms. Since the PD Zoning District was established in 1984, all five of these subdivisions were subject to illegal requirements for adequate school and fire facilities as conditions of development approval. Fire fees were paid to New Hanover County or sites for fire stations were incorporated in nearly all the developments, as conditions of development approval. The provision requiring school sites was strengthened after the approvals of Landfall and Northchase. Had the River Lights project not been annexed into the City of Wilmington, it faced a $2.5 million illegal school impact fee as a condition of approval. The remaining two projects face similar illegal conditions which require donation of a school site or fees in lieu of land donation

 

After discussing the issue with County management, BASE committed to work with New Hanover County to craft ordinance changes that address the needs of the County in a manner that is lawfully authorized. At the July 2011 Planning Board meeting, County Planning staff presented a text amendment which made changes to the PD district, specifically REMOVING THE ILLEGAL FIRE AND SCHOOL FEES. We thank the members of the Planning Board who unanimously voted for the item: Richard Collier, Andy Heath, Melissa Gott, Troy Barboza, Tamara Carter Murphy and Dan Hilla. The item will be considered by the County Commissioners in August.

 
 

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