Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the following definitions will govern the construction of the words and phrases used in this chapter:
BENEFIT AREA means the geographic area within which impact fees are collected and expended for a particular type of capital improvement serving development projects within such area.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT means land or facilities for the storage, treatment or distribution of water; for the collection, treatment, reclamation or disposal of sewage; for the collection and disposal of stormwaters and for watershed preservation purposes; for purposes of transportation and transit, including without limitation, streets, street lighting and traffic-control devices and supporting improvements, roads, overpasses, bridges, airports, and related facilities; for parks and recreational improvements; for public safety, including police and fire facilities; for schools and child care facilities; for libraries and public art; for public buildings of all kinds; and for
any other capital project identified in the city’s Capital Improvements Plan.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT also includes design, engineering, inspection, testing, planning, legal land acquisition and all other costs associated with construction of a public facility.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN means the long term plan for capital improvements, adopted by the City Council, describing the approximate location, size, time of availability and estimated cost of capital improvement projects and identifies sources of funding for capital improvement projects.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT LIST means the list attached to a Council resolution setting the base fee amount for each specific impact fee. The list must describe the approximate location, size, time of availability and estimated cost of each capital improvement to be funded from a particular impact fee account.
COLLECTION means the point in time at which the impact fee is actually paid over to the city.
COMMITMENT means earmarking impact fees to fund or partially fund capital improvements serving new development projects.
NEW DEVELOPMENT or DEVELOPMENT PROJECT means and includes any project undertaken for the purpose of development, including without limitation a project involving the permit issuance for construction, reconstruction, or change of use, but not a project involving permit issuance for operating, remodeling, rehabilitating, or improving an existing structure, nor the rebuilding of a structure destroyed or damaged through natural disaster, nor the replacement of one mobile home with another on the same pad if no dwelling unit is added.
DWELLING UNIT means one or more rooms in a building or a portion of a room, designed, intended to be used, or actually used for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping quarters, and containing one kitchen only, and includes a mobile home, but not hotel or motel units.
IMPACT FEE means any monetary exaction imposed by the city as a condition of or in connection with approval of a development project for the purpose of defraying all or some of the cost of or repayment of costs previously expended from other city funds for capital improvements relating to the project.
IMPOSE means to determine that a particular development project is subject to the collection of impact fees as a condition of development approval.
NONRESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT means all development other than residential development projects.
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT means any development undertaken to create a new dwelling unit or units.
(Ord. 1076, passed 11-3-03)