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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a separate legal issue, I'm curious about the development taxes in Crown. While school impact taxes can be used across the county, the same isn't true for UPP taxes. Those are much, much smaller, but they need to be used in that area to increase capacity. Does Crown have enough more teaching stations than Wootton to spend that money? Or will it need to be refunded to the developers?

It would be a lot cheaper to refund that amount than renovate and operate another school, so that would probably still be the right move. I just don't know how that would work.[/quote]

By my read no refund is required regardless.  The money was used to build Crown, which will under Option H given the addition of some population from GHS "that adds capacity designed to alleviate overutilization in the school service area from which the funds were collected."  Alternatively, the Crown building itself constitutes "capital projects adding capacity at any school adjacent to the school for which the funds were collected."[/quote]

[b]It only adds capacity under option H to the extent it has more capacity than the current Wootton facility[/b]. The law is pretty clear it needs to be used to increase capacity, not merely for capital improvements.[/quote]

I'm not sure that is true?  It just needs to add more capacity than [b]was in the school service area where the taxes were collected[/b].  Excess capacity in other areas isn't relevant to that determination.[/quote]

It isn't adding capacity in that area if they're using it for students from a different area. Right?

And actually, Wootton is already in that area. UPP taxes need to go to increasing capacity within the collected or adjacent zones. Wootton is an adjacent zone.[/quote]

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