3.10.010 Definitions.
The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, have the following definitions and meanings:
A. “Capital improvement(s)” means public facilities or assets used for any of the following:
1. Sanitary sewers, including collection, transmission, treatment and disposal;
2. Storm sewers, including drainage and flood control;
3. Parks and recreation, including but not limited to mini-neighborhood parks, neighborhood parks, community parks, public open space and trail systems, buildings, courts, fields and other like facilities.
4. Street and transit improvements, including but not limited to signalization, channelization, widening, drainage work, sidewalks and pedestrian facilities, bicycle facilities, lighting, right-of-way acquisition, street extensions, railroad crossing protective devices, and other like facilities.
B. “Development”, as used in MMC 3.10.020 through 3.10.090, means conducting a building or mining operation, or making a physical change in the use or appearance of a structure or land, which increases the usage of any capital improvements or which will contribute to the need for additional or enlarged improvements.
C. “Public improvement charge” means a fee for costs associated with capital improvements to be constructed after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter. This term shall have the same meaning as the term “improvement fee” as used in ORS 223.297 through 223.314.
D. “Qualified public improvement” means a capital improvement that is required as a condition of development approval, identified in the plan and list adopted pursuant to ORS 223.309 and either:
1. Not located on or contiguous to property that is the subject of development approval; or
2. Located in whole or in part on or contiguous to property that is the subject of development approval and required to be built larger or with greater capacity than is necessary for the particular development project to which the systems development charge is related.
E. “Reimbursement fee” means a fee for costs associated with capital improvements constructed or under construction on the date the fee is adopted pursuant to MMC 3.10.020.
F. “Systems development charge” means a reimbursement fee, a public improvement charge or a combination thereof assessed or collected at any of the times specified in MMC 3.10.050. It shall not include connection or hookup fees for sanitary sewers or storm drains. Such fees are designed by the city only to reimburse the city for actual or average costs for such connections. Nor shall the SDC include costs for capital improvements which by city policy and state statute are paid for by assessments (or fees in lieu of assessments) for projects of special benefit to a property. (Ord. 4980 §1, 2014; Ord. 4585 §1a and 1b, 1995; Ord. 4495 §1 (part), 1991).