A. “Act” shall mean the Growth Management Act, Chapter 36.70A RCW.

B. “Applicant” means the owner of real property according to the records of the Grant County Department of Records and Elections, or the applicant’s authorized agent.

C. “Building area” means the total square footage of the building, including basements and mezzanines.

D. “Building permit” means the official document or certification that is issued by the Planning and Building Department and that authorizes the construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, erection, tenant improvement, demolition, moving or repair of a building or structure.

E. “Capital facilities” means the facilities or improvements included in the Capital Facilities Plan.

F. “Capital Facilities Plan” means the Capital Facilities Plan element of the City’s Comprehensive Plan adopted pursuant to Chapter 36.70A RCW, and such plan as amended.

G. “City” means the City of Moses Lake.

H. “Council” means the City Council of Moses Lake.

I. “Department” means the Fire Department.

J. “Director” means the Director of the Community Development Department, or the Director’s designee.

K. “Dwelling unit” means a building, or portion thereof, designed for residential occupancy consisting of one (1) or more rooms for living or sleeping purposes and containing kitchen, sleeping, and sanitary facilities for use solely by one (1) family.

L. “Fire flow calculation area” means the total floor area as defined in Section 16.50.030.

M. “Fire protection facilities” means fully equipped fire stations, administrative offices, training grounds and structures, maintenance facilities and other specialized facilities required for the City to locate and house firefighting and emergency medical equipment, and fire suppression equipment.

N. “Fire protection system improvements” means fire protection facilities that will benefit new development and that have been included in the City of Moses Lake’s Capital Facilities Plan and are designed to provide service to service areas within the community at large (not private facilities).

O. “Gross floor area” means the total square footage of livable area of any dwelling unit and the gross leasable square footage area of any nonresidential building, structure, or use, including accessory uses.

P. “Hearing Examiner” means the person who exercises the authority of Chapter 18.80.

Q. “Impact fee” means a payment of money imposed by the City on an applicant prior to issuance of a building permit as a condition of granting a building permit in order to pay for the public facilities needed to serve new growth and development. “Impact fee” does not include a reasonable permit fee or application fee.

R. “Impact fee account” or “account” means the account established for the fire protection facilities’ impact fees collected. The account shall be established pursuant to this chapter and shall comply with the requirements of RCW 82.02.070.

S. “Independent fee calculation” means the study of data submitted by an applicant to support the assessment of an impact fee other than the fee in the schedule attached as set forth in Section 21.03.170.

T. “Interest” means the interest rate earned by local jurisdictions in the State of Washington Local Government Investment Pool, if not otherwise defined.

U. “Low-income housing” means (1) an owner-occupied housing unit affordable to households whose household income is less than eighty percent (80%) of the Grant County median income, adjusted for household size, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and no more than thirty percent (30%) of the household income is paid for housing expenses, or (2) a renter-occupied housing unit affordable to households whose income is less than sixty percent (60%) of the Grant County median income, adjusted for household size, as determined by HUD, and no more than thirty percent (30%) of the household income is paid for housing expenses (rent and appropriate utility allowance). In the event that HUD no longer publishes median income figures for Grant County, the City may use or determine such other method as it may choose to determine the Grant County median income, adjusted for household size. The Director will make a determination of sales prices or rents which meet the affordability requirements of this section. An applicant for a low-income housing exemption may be a public housing agency, a private nonprofit housing developer or a private developer.

V. “Multifamily housing” means building(s) having four (4) or more dwelling units designed for permanent residential occupancy resulting from new construction or rehabilitation or conversion of vacant, underutilized, or substandard buildings as defined in Section 18.23.020 (Zoning Code).

W. “Owner” means the owner of real property according to the records of the Grant County Recorder’s office; provided, that if the real property is being purchased under a recorded real estate contract, the purchaser shall be considered the owner of the real property.

X. “Residential” means housing, such as single-family attached and detached dwellings, factory built residential structures, manufactured homes, duplexes, condominiums, multifamily dwellings and all other listed residential uses that may be described and approved under Section 18.20.030. For the purpose of this chapter, an accessory dwelling unit, regulated in Section 18.20.055, is considered an adjunct to the associated primary structure, and is not charged a separate impact fee.

Y. “Square footage” means the square footage of the gross floor area of the development. (Ord. 3037, 10/24/23)