Recreation Facility Fees, Parks & Open Space Land 7.1 Purpose And Intent
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7. Recreation Facility Fees, Parks & Open Space Land
7.1. Purpose And Intent It is the intent of this chapter is to require that each new development contribute to the necessary range of parks and opens space critical to the quality of life for each resident and visitor. It is expected that all new residential development provides centrally-located, unencumbered land as neighborhood park space for human use and/or unimproved open space in addition to contributing to the construction and expansion of community facilities. The required neighborhood park or open space is intended to compliment the community facilities that are supported by the required Recreation Facility Fees.
7.2. Applicability
Any person developing and/or subdividing property for residential purposes subject to this ordinance shall be subject to the open space standards and Recreation Facility Fee levied by the town.
7.3. Recreation Facility Fee Pursuant to the authority granted to the town by the State of North Carolina in Chapter 502, Senate Bill 576 (1989), the town shall impose a Recreation Facility Fee for each new single-family or multifamily dwelling unit including, but not limited to, condominiums, town homes, apartments, and duplexes built in the town or the town’s extraterritorial planning area. All residential subdivisions, multi-family developments, planned unit developments and manufactured home parks for which town approval or permitting is required, or real property improvement which results in the creation of residential dwelling units shall be subject to payment of the Recreation Facility Fee. B. No building permit shall be issued for any new residential dwelling unit until the Recreation Facility Fee has been paid to the town in full. 7.3.2. Exceptions A. 7.3.1. Applicability A. The Recreation Facility Fee shall not apply to fences, billboards, poles, pipelines, transmission lines, advertising signs or similar structures and improvements, renovations and repairs which do not generate the need for additional or expanded recreational facilities. B. The Recreation Facility Fee shall not apply to residential subdivisions, multi-family developments, planned unit developments and manufactured home parks, which have received master plan approval and are still valid and active or an established zoning vested right prior to November 17, 1998. 7.3.3. Credits The required Recreation Facility Fee may be credited, subject to approval by the Board of Commissioners, by an equivalent amount of land dedication and/or construction of greenway trails noted on an adopted plan. 7.3.4. Fee Amounts The Recreation Facility Fee shall be paid to the town in the amounts as determined by the Board of Commissioners.
Town of Wake Forest Unified Development Ordinance – July 19, 2022
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