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and private funding of public parks facilities and services necessitated in whole or in part by <br />development within the city; <br />2. Charge and collect fees to ensure that development bears its proportionate share of the capital <br />costs of public parks facilities necessitated by development; and <br />3. Ensure fair collection and administration of such parks impact fees. <br />19.53.020 Findings. <br />The City Council finds and determines that growth and development in the city create additional <br />demand and need for public parks facilities in the city, and the City Council finds that growth and <br />development should pay its proportionate share of the costs of the facilities needed to serve the growth <br />and development in the city. Therefore, pursuant to RCW 36.70A and RCW 82.02.050 through <br />82.02.100, which authorize the city to impose and collect impact fees to fund public facilities that serve <br />growth, the City Council adopts this ordinance to impose parks impact fees for parks services. It is the <br />Council's intent that the provisions of this ordinance be liberally construed in establishing the parks <br />impact fee program. <br />19.53.030 Definitions. <br />Terms or words not defined herein shall be defined pursuant to RCW 82.02.090 and Everett Municipal <br />Code 19.04 when given their usual and customary meaning. For the purposes of this ordinance, unless <br />the context or subject matter clearly requires otherwise, the words or phrases defined in this section <br />shall have the following meanings: <br />1. "Building permit" means an official document or certification of the city of Everett issued by the <br />city's building official which authorizes the construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, <br />reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, erection, placement, demolition, moving, or repair of a <br />building or structure. <br />2. "City" means the city of Everett, Washington, County of Snohomish. <br />3. "Development activity" means any construction, reconstruction, or expansion of a building, <br />structure, or use, or any changes in use of a building or structure, or any changes in the use of land, <br />requiring development approval. <br />4. "Development approval" means any written authorization from the city, which authorizes the <br />commencement of the "development activity." <br />5. "Encumber" means to reserve, set aside, or earmark the parks impact fees in order to pay for <br />commitments, contractual obligations, or other liabilities incurred for the provision of parks <br />services. <br />6. "Fee payer" is a person, corporation, partnership, an incorporated association or governmental <br />agency, municipality, or similar entity commencing a land development activity that requires a <br />building permit and creates a demand for additional parks capital facilities. <br />7. "Impact fee" means the payment of money imposed by the city on development activity pursuant to <br />this ordinance as a condition of granting development approval in order to pay for the parks <br />facilities needed to serve growth and development that is a proportionate share of the cost of parks <br />capital facilities used for facilities that reasonably benefit development. Impact fees do not include <br />reasonable permit fees, application fees, administrative fees for collecting and handling parks <br />impact fees, or the cost of reviewing independent fee calculations. <br />8. "Low-income housing" means housing where monthly costs, including utilities other than <br />telephone, do not exceed 30% of the resident's household monthly income and where household <br />monthly income must be 80% or less of the Snohomish County Median family income adjusted for <br />ORDINANCE Page 4 of 14 <br />