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ORDINANCE Page 6 of 17 E. D. “Local housing standard” means the International Property Maintenance Code as adopted by the city of Everett. F. E. “Low-income household housing” means housing where monthly costs, including utilities other than telephone, do not exceed thirty percent of the resident’s household monthly income and where household monthly income must be eighty percent or less of the Snohomish County median family income adjusted for family size as reported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose adjusted income is at or below eighty percent of the median household income adjusted for household size for the county where the project is located, as reported by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. If Snohomish County is designated a high-cost area under RCW 84.14.010, “low-income household” means a household that has an income at or below one hundred percent of the median household income adjusted for household size for Snohomish County. G. F. “MFTE” means multifamily housing property tax exemption. H. F. “Moderate-income household” means a single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose adjusted income is more than eighty percent but is at or below one hundred fifteen percent of the area median household income adjusted for household family size for the metropolitan statistical area county where the project is located, as reported by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. If Snohomish County is designated a high-cost area under RCW 84.14.010, “moderate-income household” means a household that is more than one hundred percent, but at or below one hundred fifty percent, of the median household income adjusted for household size for Snohomish County. I. H. “Multi-family housing” and “multiple-unit housing” are used synonymously in this chapter and mean a building having the number of dwelling units specified in Section 3.78.050 that are not designed or used as transient accommodations, not including hotels and motels, and designed for permanent residential occupancy resulting from new construction, rehabilitation or conversion of a vacant, underutilized or substandard building to multi-family housing. J. G. “Owner” means the property owner of record. K. I. “Permanent residential occupancy” means multifamily housing that provides either owner occupant housing or rental occupancy accommodations that are leased for a period of at least one month on a non-transient basis. This excludes accommodations that offer occupancy on a transient basis such as hotels and motels that predominately offer rental accommodations on a daily or weekly basis. L. J. “Planning director” means the planning director for the city of the city of Everett’s planning division of the office of community, planning and economic development or authorized designee. M. “Project” means the multifamily housing or portion of the multifamily housing that is to receive the tax exemption.