File #: 2025-0127    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/6/2025 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action: 8/26/2025
Enactment date: 9/8/2025 Enactment #: 19965
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to school impact fees; amending Ordinance 13147, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.060, Ordinance 11621, Section 89, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.152, Ordinance 11621, Section 90, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.154, Ordinance 11621, Section 91, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.156, Ordinance 11621, Section 112, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.030, Ordinance 11621, Section 114, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.050, and Ordinance 11621, Section 117, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.080, adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 21A.43, and repealing Ordinance 10870, Section 292, and K.C.C. 21A.06.1260, and Ordinance 11621, Attachment A.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: Fees
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19965, 2. 2025-0127 Title Amendment T3, 3. 2025-0127 Amendment 4B as amended by Amendment 1 to 4B, 4. 2025-0127 Amendment 1 to 4B, 5. 2025-0127 Amendment 3, 6. 2025-0127 Amendment 2B as amended by Amendment 1 to 2B, 7. 2025-0127 Amendment 1 to 2B, 8. 2025-0127 transmittal letter, 9. 2025-0127 Fiscal Note, 10. Commerce Acknowledge Letter-School Impact Fee Formula Ordinance, 11. Plain Language Summary-School Impact Fee Formula Ordinance, 12. 2025-0127 Legislative Review Form, 13. 2025-0127_SR_SIFFormula, 14. 2025-0127_ATT2_AMD S1_SIFFormulabar_clean, 15. 2025-0127_ATT3 AMD T1_SIFFormula, 16. 2025-0127_ATT6_PlainLanguageSummary, 17. 2025-0127_RevisedSR_SIFFormula, 18. School Impact Fees_SB5258_SEPA Exemption memo Signed, 19. Acknowledge-Letter-2025-S-9840
Staff: Auzins, Erin
Drafter
Clerk 08/26/2025
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to school impact fees; amending Ordinance 13147, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.060, Ordinance 11621, Section 89, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.152, Ordinance 11621, Section 90, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.154, Ordinance 11621, Section 91, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.28.156, Ordinance 11621, Section 112, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.030, Ordinance 11621, Section 114, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.050, and Ordinance 11621, Section 117, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.43.080, adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 21A.43, and repealing Ordinance 10870, Section 292, and K.C.C. 21A.06.1260, and Ordinance 11621, Attachment A.
Body
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. This ordinance includes a new formula for the calculation of impact fees. This ordinance also includes a maximum impact fee amount for middle housing and larger apartment units, as one measure to limit the impact of the fee on housing production. This formula is new and the county is committed to evaluating its efficacy over time, both for measuring the impact of new development on school capacity and on the impacts of the fee on housing production in unincorporated King County. If the county finds that the formula is not as effective as intended, then in the capital facility plans and impact fee proposed for 2031, a modified formula or modified maximum impact fee, or both, may be proposed. The maximum impact fee may also be modified in the future due to inflation or population growth, or some other factor, as part of the county and school districts' regular ongoing evaluation of school capital facility planning.
B. RCW 82.02.060 and K.C.C. 21A.43.080, allow for exemptions from impact fee for low-income housing projects. It is the intent of the council that the county provide school-district approved exemptions from school impact fees authorized by this ordinance and K.C.C. 21A.43.080 for all affordable housing projects in unincorporated King Co...

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