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Sammamish Development Code
Impact fee. A payment of money imposed upon development as a condition of development approval to pay for public facilities needed to serve new growth and development, and that is reasonably related to the new development that creates additional demand and need for public facilities, that is a proportionate share of the cost of the public facilities, and that is used for facilities that reasonably benefit the new development. “Impact fee” does not include a reasonable permit or application fee.
f. Revenues that can be imposed or expended at the discretion of the City, including, but not limited to, impact fees, SEPA mitigation payments, property taxes, real estate excise taxes, user fees, charges, intergovernmental entitlements, and bonds; g. Revenue from special assessment districts created by the City; h. Irrevocable commitments from developers in a form acceptable to the City including: i. Performance or surety bonds from Washington State financial institutions; ii. Letters of credit from Washington State financial institutions; or iii. Assignments of assets in Washington State (i.e., interests in real property, savings certificates, bank accounts, or negotiable securities); or i. Payments by special districts if such payments are similar in character and reliability to those listed in subsections a. through e. of this definition. 25. Gross floor area. The total square footage of any building, structure, or use, including accessory uses. 26. Hearing examiner. The examiner who acts on behalf of the City in considering and applying land use regulatory codes as provided under the Sammamish Municipal Code. Where appropriate, “hearing examiner” also refers to the office of the hearing examiner.
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28. Impact fee account or “account”. The account(s) established for each type of public facility for which impact fees are collected. The accounts shall be established pursuant to SDC 21.08.030G., SDC 21.08.030H., SDC 21.08.040G. and SDC 21.08.040H., and comply with the requirements of RCW 82.02.070. 29. Independent fee calculation. The street impact calculation or park and recreational impact fee and/or economic documentation prepared by a feepayer to support the assessment of an impact fee calculation other than by the use of the rates listed in SDC 21.08.030K. or SDC 21.08.040K., or the calculations prepared by the director where none of the fee categories or fee amounts in SDC 21.08.030K. or SDC 21.08.040K. accurately describe or capture the impacts of the new development on public facilities. 30. ITE land use code. The classification code number assigned to a type of land use by the Institute of Transportation Engineers in the current edition of Trip Generation Manual. 31. Level of service standards. The City’s defined performance standards for its adopted concurrency intersections,
Effective | January 1, 2022
Title 21: Sammamish Development Code | 611
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