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into consideration and give fair credit for the contributions made by the subject property owner or his/her predecessor(s)in interest under any transportation funding device,such as a local improvement district(LID), transportation benefit district(TBD),development agreement,or similar mechanism.Any claim for credit made later than the time of application for a building permit shall be deemed to be waived. C. The prohibition on duplication limits the city from requiring an applicant to pay more than once for a transportation improvement to address the same environmental impact. It is not a duplicative requirement for an applicant to pay an impact fee for system improvements and to pay for or install transportation improvements that are otherwise authorized by law,provided these different mitigation obligations do not address the same,specific environmental impact resulting from the project. D. Agreements may provide for credit for future improvements if the city and applicant agree that the applicant is implementing transportation improvements beyond those required under this chapter. 19.50.050 Option to prepare traffic analysis. In order to allow the impact fee to be adjusted to consider unusual circumstances in specific cases to ensure that impact fees are imposed fairly or to calculate an adjustment in the standard fee for a particular development that permits consideration of studies and data submitted by the applicant,the applicant has the option of preparing a traffic analysis at his expense to provide a basis for an adjustment in the standard fee.The traffic analysis shall meet the specifications for a traffic analysis called for in Sections 19.51.060 through 19.51.080 and as published in the standards and specifications manual,or as otherwise approved by the city traffic engineer. 19.50.060 Administrative procedures and appeals. A. RCW 82.02.070 and 82.02.080 are hereby adopted by reference into this chapter as the administrative procedures for collection and refunding of impact fees under this chapter. B. Payment of all transportation impact fees shall be made prior to building permit issuance,except as provided in subsection C of this section. C. The deferral of transportation impact fees shall be allowed only for single-family attached and detached construction being constructed by an applicant having a contractor registration number or other unique identification number and in accordance with the following: 1. For this subsection: a. "Applicant"includes an entity that controls,is controlled by,or is under common control with the applicant. b. "Common control" means two or more entities controlled by the same person or entity. c. "Control"means the possession,directly or indirectly,of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity,whether through the ownership of voting shares, by contract,or otherwise. 2. An applicant wishing to defer the payment of transportation impact fees shall: a. Submit a signed and notarized deferred fee application and completed lien form concurrent with the building permit application for the building subject to the fee;and b. Submit a certification that the applicant has requested no more than a total of twenty deferred impact fee requests in the calendar year within the city;and c. Pay a nonrefundable two hundred fifty dollar administration fee for each unit or lot of a single development project for which the deferral of the fee is requested. Beginning January 1,2018,and each January 1st thereafter,this fee shall be adjusted in accordance with the most recent change in the Consumer Price Index(CPI)or other official measurement of inflation used by the city. If the change in the CPI or other official measurement of inflation used by the city indicates an increase of less than one percent since the last adjustment of the fees listed herein,there shall be no increase for that year.At such time that the change in the CPI or other official measurement of inflation used by the city for one or more years indicates an increase of one percent or more since the last adjustment of the fees,the cumulative percentage increase since the last adjustment of fees shall be applied. Ch.19.50 Small Project Impact Fee 2 City Council Action(11/04/2020)