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Chapter 21.08 PARK IMPACT FEES
21.08.010 Legislative findings.
21.08.020 Definitions.
21.08.030 Imposition.
21.08.040 Computation.
21.08.050 Payment.
21.08.060 Service areas.
21.08.070 Funds established.
21.08.080 Use of funds.
21.08.090 Refunds of fees paid.
21.08.100 Exemptions.
21.08.110 Credits.
21.08.120 Review.
21.08.130 Fee schedule.
21.08.140 Violation – Penalty.
21.08.150 Deferral of impact fees.
A. Bothell must expand its park system in order to maintain current park standards if new development is to be accommodated without decreasing current standards. This must be done in order to promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare.
D. Each type of land development described in BMC 21.08.040 will create demand for the acquisition or expansion of parks and the construction of recreational facilities and other park improvements.
E. The fees established in BMC 21.08.040 are derived from, based upon, and do not exceed the costs of providing additional park and park improvements necessitated by the new land developments for which the fees are levied. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 1, 1997).
A. “Capital improvement” includes parks and open space planning, land acquisition, site improvements, buildings, and equipment but excludes maintenance, operation and normal repair.
1. A forecast of future needs for park facilities;
2. An identification of additional demands placed on existing public facilities by new development;
4. The parks under construction or expansion;
5. The proposed locations and capacities of expanded or new park facilities;
6. An inventory of existing park facilities;
8. An identification of deficiencies in park facilities and the means by which existing deficiencies will be eliminated within a reasonable period of time.
In accordance with GMA requirements, the current six-year capital facilities program (CFP) will identify all projects that are eligible for funding in whole or part by growth impact fees for parks.
E. “Development activity” means any construction or expansion of a building, structure, or use, any change in use of a building or structure, or any change in the use of land, or the subdivision of land that creates additional demand for park and recreational facilities.
G. “Encumbered” means impact fees identified by the city as being committed as part of the funding for a park facility for which the publicly funded share has been assured or building permits sought or construction contracts let.
Park impact fees will be a proportionate amount (less than 100 percent) of the land acquisition and facility development value or cost required to sustain the existing level of service as a result of new development.
I. “Growth impact fee schedule” means the table of park impact fees to be charged per unit of development as computed in the rate study and adopted under this chapter, indicating the standard fee amount per unit of development to be paid as a condition of development within the city.
K. “Improvements, system” means public facilities designed to serve areas within the community at large, in contrast to project improvements designed to service occupants of a particular development project or site. System improvement examples include collector or arterial roads, schools, and parks.
L. “Level of service” for growth impact fees means the value of park, open space and recreation land and facilities per person.
Q. “Rate study” means the most recent report of the methodology and calculations of growth impact fees for parks, open space and recreation facilities.
R. “Service areas” means a geographic area in which a defined set of public facilities provide service to the population within the area. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 2, 1997).
A. Any person or entity who, after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, seeks to develop land within Bothell by applying for a permit for development activity is hereby required to pay a park growth impact fee in the manner and amount set forth in this chapter.
B. No new building permit or new permit for any activity requiring payment of an impact fee pursuant to this chapter shall be issued unless and until the park growth impact fee hereby required has been paid.
C. No extension of a building permit issued prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter for any activity requiring payment of an impact fee pursuant to this chapter shall be granted unless and until the park impact fee hereby required has been paid. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 3, 1997).
A. Schedule. The park growth impact fees as determined in the rate study and adopted in accordance with this chapter are set forth in the table in BMC 21.08.130.
3. Impact fees may be paid under protest in order to obtain a permit or other approval of development activity. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 4, 1997).
A. Impact fees shall be imposed upon development activity in the city, based upon the schedule set forth in this chapter, and shall be collected by the city from any applicant where such development activity requires development approval for the lot or unit has not been previously paid.
F. Arrangement may be made for later payment of the impact fee with the approval of the city only if the city determines that it will be unable to use or will not need the payment until a later time; provided, that sufficient security, as defined by the city, is provided to assure payment. Security shall be made to and held by the city, which will be responsible for tracking and documenting the security interest. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 5, 1997).
Park, open space and recreational lands, facilities, and services will be provided in a single city-wide service area. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 6, 1997).
A. All park impact fees collected shall be promptly transferred for deposit in a park impact fee fund to be held in a separate account as determined by this section and used solely for the purposes specified in this chapter.
1. A separate park impact fee account is hereby created for parks and recreational facilities.
2. A separate impact fee account will also be created for open space.
B. Funds withdrawn from these accounts must be used in accordance with the provisions of BMC 21.08.080. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 7, 1997).
A. Funds collected from park growth impact fees shall be used solely for the purpose of making capital improvements to parks, open space and recreational facilities under the jurisdiction of Bothell.
B. Funds shall be used exclusively for capital improvements within the park growth impact fee service areas. Funds shall be expended on the basis of a “first in/first out” accounting basis.
C. In the event that bonds or similar debt instruments are issued for advanced provision of capital facilities for which park impact fees may be expended, impact fees may be used to pay debt service on such bonds or similar debt instruments to the extent that the facilities provided are of the type described in subsection A of this section and are located within the appropriate impact fee service areas created by BMC 21.08.060 or as provided in subsection B of this section.
F. At least once each fiscal period the director shall present to the council a proposed capital facility program (CFP) for parks, assigning funds, including any accrued interest from the several park impact fee funds to specific park improvement projects and related expenses. Moneys, including any accrued interest, not assigned in any fiscal period shall be retained in the same park impact fee funds until the next fiscal period, except as provided by the refund provisions of this chapter.
G. Funds may be used to provide refunds as described in BMC 21.08.090. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 2165 § 1, 2015; Ord. 1707 § 8, 1997).
A. If development approval expires without commencement of construction, then the developer shall be entitled to a refund, with interest, of the impact fee paid as a condition for its issuance except that Bothell shall retain a percent of the fee to offset a portion of the costs of collection and refund. The developer must submit an application for such a refund to the director within 30 days of the expiration of the permit.
B. Any funds not expended or encumbered by the end of the calendar quarter immediately following 10 years from the date the park impact fee was paid shall, upon application by the current landowner, be returned to such landowner with interest at the interest rate accrued in the fund account; provided, that the landowner submits an application for a refund to the city of Bothell within one year of the expiration of the 10-year period.
D. Interest due upon the refund of impact fees required by this section shall be calculated according to the average rate received by the city on invested funds throughout the period during which the fees were retained. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 2113 § 2, 2013; Ord. 1707 § 9, 1997).
A. Reconstruction, remodeling or construction of the following facilities, subject to the recording of a covenant or recorded declaration of restrictions precluding use of the property for other than the exempt purpose; provided, that if the property is used for a nonexempt purpose, then the park impact fees then in effect shall be paid:
2. Construction or remodeling of transitional housing facilities or dwelling units that provide housing to persons on a temporary basis for not more than 24 months, in connection with job training, self-sufficiency training and human services counseling the purpose of which is to help persons make the transition from homelessness to placement in permanent housing.
D. Mobile home where the installation of a replacement mobile home on a lot or other such site when a park impact fee for such mobile home site has previously been paid pursuant to this chapter or where a mobile home legally existed on such site on or prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter.
3. Any development activity for which park impacts have been mitigated pursuant to a voluntary agreement entered into with the city to pay fees, dedicate land or construct or improve park facilities, unless the terms of the voluntary agreement provide otherwise; provided, that the agreement predates the effective date of fee imposition as provided herein. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 10, 1997).
Park or open space land and/or park capital improvements may be offered by the developer as total or partial payment of the required impact fee. The offer must specifically request or provide for a park impact fee credit. If the director accepts such an offer, whether the acceptance is before or after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, the credit shall be determined and provided in the following manner:
A. Credit for the dedication of land shall be valued at 100 percent of the most recent assessed value by the King or Snohomish County property appraiser, by such other appropriate method as the council may have accepted prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter for particular park improvements, or by fair market value established by private appraisers acceptable to Bothell. Credit for the dedication of park land shall be provided when the property has been conveyed at no charge to, and accepted by, the city in a manner satisfactory to the council.
B. Applicants for credit for construction of park improvements shall submit acceptable engineering drawings and specifications, and construction cost estimates to the director. The director shall determine credit for construction based upon either these cost estimates or upon alternative engineering criteria and construction cost estimates if the director determines that such estimates submitted by the applicant are either unreliable or inaccurate. The director shall provide the applicant with a letter or certificate setting forth the dollar amount of the credit, the reason for the credit, and the legal description of the project or development to which the credit may be applied. The applicant must sign and date a duplicate copy of such letter or certificate indicating their agreement to the terms of the letter or certificate and return such signed document to the director before credit will be given. The failure of the applicant to sign, date, and return such document within 60 days shall nullify the credit.
D. Credit may be provided before completion of specified park improvements if adequate assurances are given by the applicant that the standards set out in subsection C of this section will be met and if the developer posts security as provided below for the costs of such construction. Security in the form of a performance bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or escrow agreement shall be posted with and approved by the director. If the park construction project will not be constructed within one year of the acceptance of the offer by the director, the amount of the security shall be increased by 10 percent compounded for each year of the life of the security. If the park construction project is not to be completed within five years of the date of the developer’s offer, the council must approve the park construction project and its scheduled completion date prior to the acceptance of the offer by the director.
G. Determinations made by the director pursuant to this section may be appealed to the council by filing a written request with the director within 10 days of the official’s determination. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 11, 1997).
The fee schedule contained in the table in BMC 21.08.130 shall be reviewed by the council at least once each fiscal year. The review shall occur in conjunction with any update of the capital facilities program (CFP) element of the city’s comprehensive plan; provided, that failure to conduct this review shall not invalidate the fee schedule previously adopted. As part of the annual review, the fees shall be adjusted by the same percentage change as in the most recent annual change of the Construction Cost Index published in the Engineering News-Record. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 12, 1997).
PARK IMPACT FEE PER UNIT
OPEN SPACE IMPACT FEE PER UNIT
COMBINED TOTAL IMPACT FEE PER UNIT
Residential by size
The city of Bothell divides their park system into two major categories: (A) parks and recreation facilities, and (B) open space assets.
(Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1957 § 1 (Exh. B), 2006; Ord. 1707 Att. A, 1997).
A violation of this chapter shall be prosecuted in the same manner as misdemeanors are prosecuted and upon conviction the violator shall be punishable according to law; however, in addition to or in lieu of any criminal prosecution Bothell shall have the power to sue in civil court to enforce the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 2192 § 1, 2016; Ord. 1707 § 13, 1997).
Impact fees may be deferred, consistent with Chapter 21.06 BMC. (Ord. 2197 § 3, 2016).