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EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures Page 77 of 94 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />(predecision hearing) or after a determination on which there is an administrative appeal <br />(appeal hearing). <br />G. “Permit” means any form of written permission given to any person, organization, or agency <br />to engage in a specific activity. A permit includes all or part of an agency permit, license, <br />certificate, approval, registration, entitlement, or other authorization to facilitate a particular <br />proposal. <br />H. “Permit date” means the date the last city staff member or official executes the project <br />permit document (or in the case of shoreline conditional use or variance permits, the date the <br />permit is executed by the Washington State Department of Ecology). The permit date normally <br />appears on the face of the permit. For Review Process III, the permit date typically will be the <br />date of the hearing examiner decision or city council ordinance, unless there is a project permit <br />administratively signed and issued by city staff to the applicant on that decision. <br />I. “Project permit” means any land use or environmental permit or license required from the <br />city of Everett for a project action, including but not limited to building permits, subdivisions, <br />binding site plans, unit lot subdivisions, planned unit developments, conditional uses, shoreline <br />substantial development permits, permits or approvals required by critical area ordinances, <br />site-specific rezones authorized by a comprehensive plan or subarea plan, but excluding the <br />adoption of amendment of a comprehensive plan, subarea plan, or development regulations, <br />except as otherwise specifically included in this subsection. A SEPA determination is not a <br />permit; a project permit typically includes any conditions required as a result of SEPA review, as <br />provided by this title. A project permit does not include nonproject actions as defined in the <br />SEPA ordinance (Chapter 19.43). Also see “land use permit.” Preapplication documents and <br />early conceptual review, such as site plan review, do not require open public hearings and are <br />not project permits under this title. <br />J. “Public hearing or meeting” means an informal meeting, hearing, workshop, or other public <br />gathering of people to obtain comments from the public or other agencies on a proposed <br />project permit prior to the city’s project permit decision. A “public meeting or hearing” is <br />distinguished from the single “open public hearing” that creates the record in a final project <br />permit recommendation or decision or an administrative appeal under this title. A public <br />meeting or hearing may be required by law and may include certain formalities, such as a <br />public hearing on an environmental impact statement. (Ord. 3774-20 § 3 (Exh. 2), 2020.)