“Average assessed value” means the average assessed value for each dwelling unit type within the Bellingham school district.

“Boeckh Index” means the current construction trade index of construction costs for each school type.

“Building permit” means the permit required for new construction and additions pursuant to BMC Title 17. As used herein, this shall not be deemed to include permits required for remodeling, rehabilitation or other improvements to an existing structure or rebuilding a damaged or destroyed structure, provided there is no increase in the resulting number of dwelling units.

“Capital facilities” means school facilities identified in the district’s six-year school capital facilities plan that are “system improvements” as defined by the State Growth Management Act as opposed to localized “project improvements.”

“City” means the city of Bellingham.

“Council” means the Bellingham city council.

“Department” means the city of Bellingham planning and community development department.

“Developer” means the proponent of a development activity, such as any person or entity who owns or holds purchase options or other development control over property for which development activity is proposed.

“Development” means, for the purposes of this chapter, all single-family subdivisions (short and preliminary/final plats), condominium and multifamily residential development, including planned residential development, and all multifamily structures which require building permits, but excluding remodel or renovation permits which do not result in additional dwelling units.

“Development activity” means any residential construction or expansion of a building, structure or use of land, or any other change in use of a building, structure, or land that creates additional demand and need for school facilities, but excluding remodeling or renovation projects which do not result in additional dwelling units. Also excluded from this definition is “housing for older persons” as defined by 42 USC 3607, when guaranteed by a restrictive covenant.

“Development approval” means any written authorization from the city that authorizes the commencement of a development activity.

“Director” means the city’s planning and community development director or the planning director’s designee.

“District” means the Bellingham School District No. 501.

“District property tax levy rate” means the Bellingham school district’s current capital property tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value.

“Duplex dwelling units” means any residential building containing two separate dwelling units. For purposes of calculating school impact fees to correctly mitigate the impact of new development, each duplex building shall be considered as two single-family dwelling units.

“Encumbered” means school impact fees identified by the district to be committed as part of the funding for capital facilities for which the publicly funded share has been assured, development approvals have been sought or construction contracts have been let.

“Estimated facility construction cost” means the planned costs of new schools or the actual construction costs of schools of the same grade span recently constructed by the district, including on-site and off-site improvement costs. If the district does not have this cost information available, construction costs of school facilities of the same or similar grade span within another district are acceptable.

“Facility design capacity” means the number of students each school type is designed to accommodate, based on the standard of service as determined by the district.

“Growth Management Act/GMA” means the Growth Management Act, Chapter 17, Laws of the State of Washington of 1990, First Executive Session, as now in existence or as hereafter amended.

“Interest rate” means the current interest rate as stated in the Bond Buyer Twenty Bond General Obligation Bond Index.

“Interlocal agreement” means the 1999 agreement between the city and the district concerning collection and handling of school impact fees.

“Land cost per acre” means the estimated average land acquisition cost per acre (in current dollars) based on recent school site acquisition costs, comparisons of comparable site acquisition costs in other districts, or the average assessed value per acre of properties comparable to school sites located within the district.

“Low income housing” means the city’s definition of low income housing as set forth in the current city of Bellingham consolidated plan (or successor thereto).

“Multifamily dwelling unit” means any residential building containing three or more dwelling units.

“Permanent facilities” means school facilities of the district with a fixed foundation.

“Relocatable facilities” means factory-built structures, transportable in one or more sections, that are designed to be used as education spaces and are needed to prevent the over building of school facilities, to meet the needs of service areas within a district, or to cover the gap between the time that families move into new residential developments and the date that construction is completed on permanent school facilities.

“Relocatable facilities cost” means the total cost, based on actual costs incurred by the district, for purchasing and installing portable classrooms.

“Relocatable facilities student capacity” means the rated capacity for a typical portable classroom used for a specified grade span.

“School capital facilities plan” or “school CFP” means the Bellingham school district’s six-year plan for capital facility improvements adopted by the school board consisting of those elements required by BMC 19.08.040 and meeting the requirements of the GMA.

“School impact fee” means a payment of money imposed upon development as a condition of development. The school impact fee does not include a reasonable permit fee, an application fee, the administrative fee for collecting and handling impact fees, or the cost of reviewing independent fee calculations.

“Single-family dwelling unit” means any attached or detached residential dwelling unit designed for occupancy by one or two families or households, including mobile homes. For purposes of this chapter and to correctly mitigate the impact of new development, duplex buildings are classified as two single-family dwelling units.

“Standard of service” means the standard adopted by the district which identifies the program year, the class size by grade span and taking into account the requirements of students with special needs, the number of classrooms, the types of facilities the district believes will best serve its student population, and other factors as identified in the district’s capital facilities plan. The district’s standard of service shall not be adjusted for any portion of the classrooms housed in relocatable facilities which are used as transitional facilities or from any specialized facilities housed in relocatable facilities.

“State match percentage” means the proportion of funds that are provided to the district for specific capital projects from the state’s common school construction fund. These funds are disbursed based on a formula which calculates district assessed valuation per pupil relative to the whole state assessed valuation per pupil to establish the maximum percentage of the total project eligible to be paid by the state.

“Student factor” or “student generation rate” means the number of students of each grade span (elementary, middle school, high school) that the district determines are typically generated by different dwelling unit types within the district. The Bellingham school district will use a survey or statistically valid methodology to derive the specific student generation rate. [Ord. 2015-12-050 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 2009-12-086; Ord. 2006-03-022].