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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute interlocal agreements with school districts for continued collection of school impact fees.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Chapter 36.70A RCW and chapter 82.02 RCW ("the act") authorize the collection of impact fees on development activity to support funding of public school facilities to serve new development.
2. The act requires that impact fees only be collected for public facilities that are addressed by a capital facilities element of a comprehensive land use plan.
3. King County enacted Ordinances 9785 and 10162 to implement the act for the collection of school impact fees.
4. The Washington state Legislature has amended the act's authority related to impact fees several times since its original enactment and King County has enacted Ordinance 19965 for the purpose of implementing the act's 2023 amendments in Chapter 337, Laws of Washington 2023, for the collection of school impact fees.
4. King County and the school districts that the county collects impact fees for entered into agreements for the collection, distribution, and expenditure of school impact fees in the early 1990s ("the original ILAs"). The council authorized the executive to enter into these agreements in Motion 8742.
5. King County and the school districts intend for these updated agreements ("the ILAs") to restate and replace the original ILAs in their entirety to implement changes as a result of Chapter 337, Laws of Washington 2023. This ordinance will replace the authorization granted in Motion 8742.
6. Upon adoption of the school districts' capital facilities plans as a subelement of the capital facilities element of the King County Comprehensive Plan, the county will collect impact fees upon certain new residential developments on behalf of the districts as agreed to in the ILAs.
7. King County and the school districts enter into the ILAs in accordance with the state Interlocal Cooperation Act, chapter 39.34 RCW, for the p...
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