19.60.060 Use of funds.
(1) The City shall base continued authorization to collect and expend impact fees on revising its comprehensive plan in compliance with RCW 36.70A.070, and on the capital facilities plan identifying:
(a) Deficiencies in public facilities serving existing development and how existing deficiencies will be eliminated within a reasonable period of time;
(b) Additional demands placed on existing public facilities by new development; and
(c) Additional public facility improvements required to serve new development.
(2) Park impact fees collected for system improvements shall be used only in conformance with the most recent capital facilities plan element of the comprehensive plan adopted by the City Council.
(3) Park impact fees shall not be used to eliminate or reduce deficiencies in existing facilities serving existing development.
(4) Park impact fees shall not be used for maintenance or operation expenses.
(5) Park impact fees may be spent for public improvements for planned facilities, including, but not limited to, planning, land acquisition, right-of-way acquisition, easement or access acquisition, construction, permitting, financing, engineering, architectural design, project management and any other expenses that are consistent with the most recent capital facilities plan element adopted by the City Council.
(6) Park impact fees may be used to recoup public improvement costs previously incurred by the City to the extent that new growth and development activity will be served by the previous acquisition; provided, such fee shall not be imposed to make up for any system improvement deficiencies. (Ord. 10-17 § 3 (Exh. A))