Drafter
Clerk 09/28/2026
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to school impact fees and comprehensive planning; adopting the capital facilities plans of the Tahoma, Federal Way, Riverview, Issaquah, Snoqualmie Valley, Highline, Lake Washington, Northshore, Enumclaw, Fife, Auburn, and Renton school districts as subelements of the King County Comprehensive Plan capital facilities element to implement the school impact fee program; establishing school impact fees to be collected by King County on behalf of the districts; and amending Ordinance 18619, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.473, and Ordinance 10122, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 27.44.010.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Chapter 36.70A RCW and chapter 82.02 RCW authorize the collection of impact fees for new development to provide public school facilities to serve the new development.
2. Chapter 82.02 RCW requires that impact fees may only be collected for public facilities that are addressed in a capital facilities element of a comprehensive land use plan.
3. King County adopted Ordinances 9785, 10162 and 19965 for the purposes of implementing chapter 82.02 RCW.
4. The Tahoma School District, Federal Way School District, Riverview School District, Issaquah School District, Snoqualmie Valley School District, Highline School District, Lake Washington School District, Northshore School District, Enumclaw School District, Fife School District, Auburn School District, and Renton School District have previously entered into interlocal agreements with King County for the collection and distribution of school impact fees. Each of those school districts, through this ordinance, seeks to renew its capital facilities plan for adoption as a subelement of the King County Comprehensive Plan capital facilities element.
5. Consistent with K.C.C. 21A.28.154, the school technical review committee met on June 5, 2026, to review each school district's capital facilities plan, enrollment projections, standard of service...
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