Sammamish Unified Development Code

Public Works and Buildings | Street Impact Fees

of the adjustment and revise the fee rates set forth in SDC 21.08.030K. If the council does not determine the amount of the adjustment, the adjustment shall be administratively adjusted by the same amount that the five-year average Washington State Department of Transportation Construction Cost Index changed for the most recent 12-month period prior to the date of the adjustment. 2. In the last quarter of each calendar year, the community development director, together with the public works director, shall prepare a report to the planning commission for the year to date, including the following: a. The number of requests for impact fee exemptions pursuant to SDC 21.08.030C.; b. The total number of residential units and dollar amounts of the exemptions approved by the community development director in consultation with the public works director; c. A copy of the hearing examiner decision, if any of the decisions of the community development director, in consultation with the public works director, were appealed to the hearing examiner. Based on this annual review, the planning commission shall recommend to the City council any revision to SDC 21.08.030C. deemed appropriate.

fees and which specifies the amount of the impact fee to be imposed for each type of system improvement. The schedule is based upon a formula and/or method of calculating the impact fees. In determining proportionate share, the formula and/or method of calculating the fees incorporates, among other things, the following: a. the cost of public facilities necessitated by new development; b. an adjustment to the cost of the public facilities for past or future payments made or reasonably anticipated to be made by new development to pay for particular system improvements in the form of user fees, debt service payments, taxes, or other payments earmarked for or proratable to the particular system improvement; c. the availability of other means of funding public facility improvements; d. the cost of existing public facilities improvements; and e. the methods by which public facilities improvements were financed. The street impact fee rates in this section are generated from the formula for calculating impact fees set forth in the street impact fee analysis, which is incorporated herein by reference. Except as otherwise provided for independent fee calculations in SDC 21.08.030L., exemptions in SDC 21.08.030C., and credits in SDC 21.08.030D., all new developments in the City will be charged the impact fee applicable to the type of development:

K. Street impact fee rates

In accordance with RCW 82.02.060, the street impact fees are based upon a schedule of impact fees which is adopted for each type of development activity that is subject to impact

586 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code

Effective | January 1, 2022

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