18.75.090 School concurrency – Applicability and relationship to fees.
(1) The school concurrency standard set out in CMC 18.75.120 shall apply to applications for preliminary plat or urban planned development (UPD) approval, mobile home parks, requests for multifamily zoning, and building permits for multifamily housing projects which have not been previously evaluated for compliance with the concurrency standard.
(2) The City’s finding of concurrency shall be made at the time of preliminary plat or UPD approval, at the time that a request to actualize potential multifamily zoning is approved, at the time a mobile home park site plan is approved, or prior to building permit issuance for multifamily housing projects which have not been previously established for compliance with the concurrency standard. Once such a finding has been made, the development shall be considered as vested for purposes of the concurrency determination.
(3) Excluded from the application of the concurrency standard are:
(a) Building permits for individual single-family dwellings;
(b) Any form of housing exclusively for senior citizens, including nursing homes and retirement centers;
(c) Shelters for temporary placement, relocation facilities and transitional housing facilities;
(d) Replacement, reconstruction or remodeling of existing dwelling units;
(e) Short subdivisions;
(f) Building permits for residential units in recorded planned unit developments approved pursuant to this code that have not yet expired;
(g) Any residential building permit for any development proposal for which a concurrency determination has already been made pursuant to the terms of this title.
(4) All of the development activities which are excluded from the application of the concurrency standard are subject to school impact fees imposed pursuant to CMC Title 19.
(5) The assessment and payment of impact fees are governed by and shall be subject to the provisions in CMC Title 19 addressing school impact fees.
(6) A certification of concurrency for a school district shall not preclude the City from collecting impact fees for the district. Impact fees may be assessed and collected as long as the fees are used to fund capital and system improvements needed to serve the new development, and as long as the use of such fees is consistent with the requirements of Chapter 82.02 RCW and this chapter. Pursuant to Chapter 82.02 RCW, impact fees may also be used to recoup capital and system improvement costs previously incurred by a school district to the extent that new growth and development will be served by the previously constructed improvements or incurred costs. (Ord. 16-16 § 3; Ord. 20-07 § 129; Ord. 42-02 § 2 (21A.28.140))