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DISTRICT HIKES BUILDING FEES FUNDS COVER COST OF NEW STUDENTS.


Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO

Staff Writer

ROSAMOND -- Projecting that 1,250 homes will be built in the next five years, the Years, The

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See : Time
 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.  has raised by more than 22 percent developer fees that help pay for portable classrooms and other school facilities.

Levied to help accommodate students who move into new housing tracts, the developer fees were raised to $4.15 per square foot of floor space, up from $3.39. That amounts to $8,300 for an average-size new house of 2,000 square feet.

The board unanimously approved the increase in developer fees at Wednesday's meeting. No developers attended.

"They just take it as a matter of doing business," said Charlene Melchers, the district's chief business officer.

The district's fee study projects that 1,250 homes will be built in the next five years, adding 725 students to the 3,400-student district.

The state has set $2.63 per square foot as the standard residential developer fee for financing school construction, but districts can charge more if they meet certain conditions.

The Southern Kern district in Kern County is among six 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
 districts now charging higher Level II fees.

In the L.A. County portion of the Antelope Valley, the developer fee is split 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.

The money pays for portable classrooms and restrooms, consultants, infrastructure and architects whose plans are used when portables are moved or are brought into the district.
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