For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Bedroom means a private habitable room in a residential dwelling unit available for use for sleeping purposes, but not including a kitchen, bathroom, or utility room, first living room, and dining room connected directly with a kitchen, toilet compartment and shower room. This definition is intended to include as Bedrooms spaces even though labeled on plans by some other names.
Capital Improvements means facilities, land acquisitions or assets used for the following, exclusive of normal costs of operation or routine maintenance:
1. Wastewater collection, transmission, treatment and disposal;
2. Stormwater, drainage and flood control;
3. Transportation; or
4. Parks and recreation.
Development means conducting a building or mining operation, making a physical change in the use or appearance of a structure or land, dividing land into 2 or more parcels (including partitions and subdivisions), and creating or terminating a right of access.
Dwelling Unit means 1 or more rooms designed for occupancy by 1 family and not having more than 1 cooking facility.
Improvement Fee means a fee for costs associated with capital improvements to be constructed after the date the fee is adopted pursuant to § 4.20.040.
Land Area means the area of a parcel of land as measured by projection of the parcel boundaries upon a horizontal plane, with the exception of a portion of the parcel within a recorded right-of-way or easement subject to a servitude for a public street or scenic or preservation purpose.
Owner means the owner or owners of record title or the purchaser or purchasers under a recorded sales agreement, and other persons having an interest of record in the described real property.
Parcel of Land means a lot, parcel, block or other tract of land that is occupied or may be occupied by a structure or structures or other use, and that includes the yards and other open spaces required under the zoning, subdivision or other development ordinances.
Parkland means public or private land set aside to provide space and facilities for people to engage in both active and passive recreation.
Qualified Public Improvements means a capital improvement that is:
1. Required as a condition of residential development approval;
3. Not located on or contiguous to a parcel of land that is the subject of the residential development approval.
Reimbursement Fee means a fee for costs associated with capital improvements constructed or under construction on the date the fee is adopted pursuant to § 4.20.040.
System Development Charge means a reimbursement fee, an improvement fee, a dedication or a combination thereof assessed or collected at the time of increased usage of a capital improvement, at the time of issuance of a development permit or building permit at the time of a plat sign-off, or at the time of connection to the capital improvement. System Development Charge includes that portion of a sewer system connection charge that is greater than the amount necessary to reimburse the city for its average cost of inspecting and installing connection with sewer facilities. System Development Charge does not include fees assessed or collected as a part of a local improvement district or a charge in lieu of a local improvement district assessment, or the cost of complying with other requirements or conditions imposed by a land use decision, except parkland.