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