1. “Applicant” means a person or entity that has submitted a written application to the city for a building permit.

2. “Building permit” means the city’s written authorization to commence development activity, as further defined by Chapter 22.12 MMC.

3. “City” means the city of Monroe, Washington.

4. “City engineer” means the Monroe city engineer or his/her designee.

5. “Dwelling unit” means a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

6. “Development activity” means any construction of a new building or structure or expansion of an existing building, structure, or use, or any substantial change in use of a building or structure, that generates at least one p.m. peak hour trip of additional demand on and/or need for transportation facilities.

7. “Impact fee” means a payment of money imposed by the city upon a building permit or other approval in order to fund system improvements needed to serve new growth and development, that is reasonably related to the new development that creates additional demand and need for transportation facilities, that is a proportionate share of the cost of the transportation facilities, and that is used for facilities that reasonably benefit the new development.

8. “Low-income housing” means a housing unit developed and maintained specifically for rental or ownership occupancy by households with incomes no greater than sixty percent of current average median income as determined by reference to the most recently published income data for the Seattle-Bellevue PMSA published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

9. “MMC” means the Monroe Municipal Code.

10. “Owner” means the owner of record of real property; provided, that when real property is purchased under a real estate contract, the purchaser shall be considered the owner of the real property if the contract is recorded.

11. “Project improvements” means site improvements and facilities that are planned and designed to provide service for a particular development project, that are necessary for the use and convenience of the occupants or users of the project, and that are not system improvements. No improvement or facility included in the city’s adopted capital facilities plan shall be considered a project improvement.

12. “Proportionate share” means that portion of the cost of transportation facility improvements that is reasonably related to the service demands, impacts, and needs of new development.

13. “Public facilities” means transportation facilities that are owned or operated by the city.

14. “Substantial change in use” means a change in the use of a building or structure necessitating or otherwise involving issuance of a building permit for improvements, the value of which exceeds fifty percent of the assessed value of the existing building or structure.

15. “System improvements” means transportation facilities that are included in the city’s capital facilities plan and that are designed to provide service to the community at large, in contrast to project improvements.

16. “Transportation facilities” means public streets and roads, including all publicly owned streets, roads, alleys, and rights-of-way within the city, and all traffic control devices, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, facilities, and improvements directly associated therewith.

17. “Transportation Impact Fee Rate Study Update” means the study prepared by Fehr & Peers in October 2015.