Sammamish Unified Development Code

DevelopmentStandards | DevelopmentStandards—AdequacyofPublicFacilitiesandServices

2. For a zone reclassification, the timing of installation of required fire protection improvements shall be stated in the approving ordinance, secured with a bond or similar security, and deposited with the City of Sammamish; and 3. A variance request from the requirements established by Chapter 16.05 SMC, Building Codes and Fire Code, shall be reviewed as set forth in Article 2 of the currently adopted edition of the Uniform Fire Code and does not require a variance from this Title unless relief is requested from a building height, setback, landscaping or other development standard set forth in SDC 21.04.030 through SDC 21.05.020.

3. Excluded from the application of the concurrency standard are:

i. Building permits for individual single-family dwellings;

ii. Any form of housing exclusively for senior citizens, including nursing homes and retirement centers; iii. Shelters for temporary placement, relocation facilities and transitional housing facilities; iv. Replacement, reconstruction or remodeling of existing dwelling units;

I. School concurrency—Applicability and relationship to fees

v. Short subdivisions that create four or fewer lots;

1. The school concurrency standard set out in SDC 21.06.040L. shall apply to applications for preliminary plat approval, mobile home parks, requests for multifamily zoning, and building permits for multifamily housing projects that 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 that 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.

vi. 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 that are excluded from the application of the concurrency standard are subject to school impact fees imposed pursuant to SDC 21.09.090, School Impact Fees. 5. The assessment and payment of impact fees are governed by and shall be subject to the provisions in SDC 21.09.090 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,

346 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code

Effective | January 1, 2022

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