When used in this chapter, the terms below shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise. Singular terms shall include their plural. Other terms used in this chapter shall have the definitions set forth in Title 18 (Zoning) of the Pima County Code.
1. Assisted living/congregate care: A residential land use that includes any complex that provides centralized amenities (i.e. meals, assistance, care) and/or some level of medical services or medical care for any number of residents on a continuing basis. This includes nursing homes, group homes, and other similar uses. See ITE land use category 253.
2. Attached residential/multi-family: A residential land use that includes any apartment or townhome development, regardless of unit or building size. See ITE land use category 220.
3. Building permit: The permit required for construction as determined pursuant to Title 15 (Buildings and Construction) of the Pima County Code. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "building permit" shall not include a permit required for reconstruction of a structure if the reconstruction does not reflect a change in the number of EDUs applicable to the development. If the reconstruction increases the number of EDUs applicable to the development, the development fee for roadways shall be based upon the amount of the increase. For purposes of this chapter, the term "building permit" shall include the permit or approval required from Pima County for the placement and occupancy of a manufactured home as defined in Section 18.03.020(M)(1) of the Pima County Code, multi-sectional manufactured home as defined in Section 18.03.020(M)(2) of the Pima County Code or factory-built building (modular) as defined in Section 18.03.020(F)(1) of the Pima County Code.
4. Capital facility: An asset having a useful life of three or more years that is a component of the necessary public services provided by the County. A capital facility may include any associated purchase of real property, architectural and engineering services leading to the design and construction of facilities, improvements to existing facilities, and associated financing and professional services. Whenever used herein, "infrastructure" shall have the same meaning as "capital facilities."
5. Charter/private school: A land use that is an institution of learning offering education for children, including some or all of the grades from kindergarten through twelfth grade. See ITE land use categories 534, 536, and 537.
6. County: Pima County, Arizona.
7. Credit: A reduction in an assessed impact fee resulting from developer contributions to, payments for, construction of, or dedications for capital facilities included in an infrastructure improvements plan (or as otherwise permitted by this chapter).
9. Development agreement: An agreement prepared in accordance with A.R.S. § 11-1101 and Section 19.03.030 of this chapter, which may include provisions regarding impact fee credits for a development and/or reimbursements to a developer for providing capital facilities included in the infrastructure implementation plan.
10. Development: As defined in A.R.S. § 11-1102(V)(2), the subdivision of land; the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure that adds or increases the number of service units; any use or extension of the use of land that increases the number of service units.
11. Dwelling unit: A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as a separate living quarters or, if vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
12. Equivalent demand unit (EDU): A standardized measure of demand that a particular land use type places on each category of necessary public service, in relation to the demand placed on the same necessary public service by a detached single-family dwelling unit. The EDU is calculated by using data specific to the service area in which the facility will be located and pursuant to generally accepted engineering or planning standards for a particular category of necessary public services or facility expansions.
13. Fee study: A written report that identified the methodology for calculating the amount of each development impact fee, explains the relationship between the development impact fee and the plan-based cost per EDU, and which meets other requirements set forth in A.R.S. § 11-1102.
14. General office: A land use category that includes all offices except medical- dental-veterinary offices. See ITE land use category 710.
15. High-traffic retail/services: A land use category that includes any development which attracts higher traffic volumes than other general retail and service developments, including but not limited to fast food restaurants, coffee shops, gas stations, convenience stores, combination gas station/convenience stores, and other similar high traffic generators. See ITE land use categories 853, 930, and 934.
16. Hospital/clinic: A land use category that includes any hospital or clinic, including veterinary hospitals and clinics, for the diagnosis, care, observation, and/or treatment of two or more unrelated persons (or animals) suffering from illness, injury, or deformity or for other professional care. Clinics often have lab facilities, pharmacies, and a wider range of services than a typical medical office. The term "hospital" and "clinic" shall not be construed to include the office of a physician or practitioner. See ITE land use categories 610 and 620.
17. Hotel/motel: A land use category that includes temporary lodging facilities such as hotels, motels, and recreational vehicle parks. See ITE land use categories 310 and 320.
18. Industrial: A land use category that includes any light, medium, or heavy industrial use as well as manufacturing uses, warehouses, and self-storage facilities (e.g., mini-warehouses). See ITE land use categories 110, 130, 140, 150, and 151.
19. Infrastructure improvements plan (IIP): A document or series of documents that meet the requirements set forth in A.R.S. § 11-1102(F), and that is adopted pursuant to Chapter 19.02 herein.
20. ITE land use categories: Land use categories found in the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Trip Generation Manual (10th Edition, 2017).
21. Land use assumptions (LUA): Projections of changes in land use, densities, intensities, and population for a service area over a period of at least ten years, upon which an IIP is based.
22. Level of service: A quantitative and/or qualitative measure of a necessary public service that is defined in terms of the relationship between service capacity and service demand, accessibility, comfort or convenience of use, or other similar measures or combinations of measures. Level of service may be measured differently for different categories of necessary public services or different subcategories within one public service category as identified in the IIP.
23. Medical/dental/vet office: A land use category that includes any medical, dental, or veterinarian office. See ITE land use category 720.
24. Mobile home park: A land use category that includes any mobile home for which a building permit is required, either within a mobile home park or as a stand-alone. See ITE land use category 240.
25. Necessary public service: As defined in A.R.S. § 11-1102(V)(7)(c), any street facilities located in the service area that have a life expectancy of three or more years and that are owned and operated by or on behalf of the County. Street facilities include arterial or collector streets or roads that have been designated on an officially adopted plan of the County, traffic signals and rights-of-way and improvements thereon.
26. Public school: A public or institutional land use that is an institution of learning offering education for all children, including some or all of the grades from kindergarten through twelfth grade. See ITE land use categories 520 and 530.
27. Qualified professional: As defined in A.R.S. § 11-1102(V)(8), a professional engineer, surveyor, financial analyst, or planner providing services within the scope of the person's license, education, or experience.
28. Recreational: A land use category that includes athletic clubs, health or fitness clubs, racquet or tennis clubs, and other similar uses. See ITE land use category 492 and related categories.
29. Retail: A land use category that consists of shopping facilities including, but not limited to, big box stores, grocery stores, home improvement stores or superstores, factory outlets, discount clubs or superstores, nurseries, automobile sales, and other general commercial or retail facilities. See ITE land use categories 820 and 823.
30. Senior housing: A residential land use category which is age-restricted, including single family detached homes and attached or multi-family units. See ITE land use category 251.
31. Service area: As defined in A.R.S. § 11-1102 (V)(9), any specified area within the boundaries of a county in which development will be served by necessary public services or facility expansions and within which a substantial nexus exists between the necessary public services or facility expansions and the development being served as prescribed in the IIP.
32. Service unit (see EDU): As defined in A.R.S. § 11-1102 (V)(10), a standardized measure of consumption, use, generation or discharge attributable to an individual unit of development calculated using data specific to the service area in which the facility will be located and pursuant to generally accepted engineering or planning standards for a particular category of necessary public services or facility expansions.
33. Services: A land use category that includes any development that provides a service, including but not limited to restaurants, auto-repair centers, car washes, day cares, and other similar facilities. See ITE land use categories 932 and 942.s
34. Single family detached residential: A residential land use category that includes any single family detached home or housing development that is not age-restricted. Mobile homes are not included. See ITE land use category 210.
35. Substantial nexus: A substantial nexus exists where the demand for necessary public services that will be generated by an EDU can be reasonably quantified in terms of the burden it will impose on an existing facility, the need it will create for new or expanded facilities, or the benefit to the development from those facilities. (Ord. 2020-27 § 1 (part), 2020)