22.16.010 Authority and purpose.
A. This Chapter 22.16 BCC is enacted pursuant to Chapter 82.02 RCW. It is the purpose of this chapter to:
1. Adopt a program for the purpose of jointly funding, from public and private sources, system improvements necessitated in whole or in part by development and growth within the service area.
2. Provide a fair and predictable method for allocating the cost of reasonable and necessary transportation improvements between the public and private sectors.
3. Create a mechanism to charge and collect transportation impact fees from new development.
4. Provide a portion of the funding for reasonable and necessary system improvements to mitigate the cumulative impacts of growth and development in the service area.
5. Create a system for the collection and administration of transportation impact fees.
B. This Chapter 22.16 BCC supplements existing authority of the city to regulate development. This chapter does not supplant the requirements of environmental review and mitigation under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) and Chapter 22.02 BCC. Any transportation impact fees paid in accordance with the program established by this chapter shall not exceed a proportionate share of the costs of system improvements that are reasonably related to the new development. This program may serve as one method by which the developer may meet, in part or in whole, its obligations under SEPA; provided, that a developer required to pay a fee as mitigation under SEPA and Chapter 22.02 BCC for system improvements shall not be required to pay any portion of an impact fee under this chapter imposed for those same system improvements. (Ord. 5871 § 1, 2009; Ord. 4824 § 1, 1995; Ord. 4104 § 1, 1989.)