A BOOST FOR SCHOOLS EASTSIDE DISTRICT INCREASING DEVELOPER FEES NEARLY 21%.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Reflecting a housing boom and growth in enrollment, Eastside Union School District has approved a double-digit increase in developer fees to help pay for classroom construction. Eastside raised its developer fees nearly 21 percent to $2.48 per square foot of floor space in residential development. ``We do it every year because it costs more money to build schools. Raw materials, labor and land have gone up,'' Superintendent Greg Riccio said. The average-size home in the district is about 2,000 square feet, resulting in fees of $4,960 per house. ``Our demographic studies are showing we are getting not quite one child per house,'' Riccio said. The money raised from developer fees will help pay to build schools, acquire land and provide infrastructure, Riccio said. The four-school district has nearly 2,900 pupils, up by more than 100 youngsters from the previous year. A fifth school, Columbia Elementary, is under construction. The state has set $2.24 per square foot as the standard residential developer fee for financing school construction, but in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley that fee must be shared among more than one school district. In the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County portion of the Antelope Valley, developer-fee revenue is divided among the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale and the individual elementary school elementary school: see school. districts within the high school district boundaries. Districts may charge more than the standard fee if certain conditions are met, such as having passed a school construction bond measure in the past four years and having 20 percent or more of classes in portable buildings. Aside from Eastside, other districts charging more than the standard rate are the Antelope Valley Union High School District at $1.57 per square foot; Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. , $2.86; Southern Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. , $3.39; and Westside Union School District, $2.40. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Construction is under way Monday for new housing complex, above, called Cooperstown in Lancaster. Below right, construction workers lift framing for the project. (3) A housing complex is under construction Monday in Lancaster. Developers in the area's Eastside Union School District face a fee hike. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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