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ORDINANCE NO. 2505-00 AN ORDINANCE to implement the Comprehensive Plan by establishing transportation impact fees for new projects that are categorically exempt under the State Environmental Policy Act and are therefore not covered by the City's Transportation Mitigation Ordinance. WHEREAS, the City Council finds that growth and development should pay a proportionate share of the cost of the transportation network needed to serve it; and WHEREAS, the City has analyzed the impact of new development on the transportation system through its comprehensive planning and subarea planning processes including plan-level SEPA review and has determined requirements for traffic studies, mitigation, and impact fees that are reasonably related to new development and are based on studies and experience with the actual impact of projects; and WHEREAS, the impact fee schedule has been reasonably adjusted for taxes and other revenues that are anticipated to be available to fund public improvements under the City's capital facilities plan and will not fully recover the proportionate share attributable to new projects; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2425-99, the City's Transportation Mitigation Ordinance (TMO), does not govern proposed projects that are categorically exempt under the State Environmental Policy Act, although such projects may generate new traffic and cause adverse impacts on the transportation system that require transportation system improvements; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that this ordinance will implement and promote the Comprehensive Plan, is consistent with state law requirements for transportation impact fees contained in RCW 82.02.050 et seq., and will protect the public health, safety and welfare; NOW,THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: Title,authority, and purpose 1.1. Title. The ordinance codified in this chapter may be referred to or cited as the Small Project Impact Fee Ordinance, or"SPIFO," and will be referred to herein as "this chapter." 1.2. Purpose and authorization. The purpose of this chapter is to implement the City's Comprehensive Plan including its Transportation and Capital Facility Elements. This chapter enables the City to collect impact fees from proposed projects that generate additional traffic and are categorically exempt under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) and the state rules adopted thereunder (WAC 197-11-305) and therefore not subject to Ordinance No. 2425-99, the City's Transportation Mitigation Ordinance (TMO). The fees adopted under this chapter are authorized by and in accordance with the provisions of RCW 82.02.050-.090. -1-