Bellingham Municipal Code, City of Bellingham, WA

19.06.040 - Transportation Impact Fee Rate Schedule and Zone »»

City of Bellingham Municipal Code

Title 19 IMPACT FEES
Chapter 06 TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEES

19.06.030 - TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEE

A. A Transportation Impact Fee (TIF) shall be levied upon each development that produces one or more peak hour project trip(s).

1. The number of peak hour project trips generated by a development shall be calculated based upon the latest version of the ITE Trip Generation Manual.

2. The TIF shall be determined based upon the distribution of peak hour project trips generated by future development throughout the City using the Travel Demand Forecast Model. The TIF will be calculated by the summation of future developments’ proportionate impact on transportation improvement projects identified in the City’s adopted Six-Year TIP and CIP. The proportionate share factor for computing the cost of the improvements reasonably related to growth shall be based upon the ratio of future developments’ peak hour project trips to the peak hour capacity used by development of the transportation facilities required to main the City’s adopted arterial street level of service standard at LOS E. Residential development TIFs shall be calculated on a per unit basis whereas commercial development TIFs shall be calculated on a per square foot basis, as shown on Table 1. Transportation Impact Fee Worksheet, incorporated herein by this reference.

B. Payment of the TIF shall be made prior to issuance of a building permit, or if no building permit is required, prior to approval by the City of the development.

C. Reductions in PM peak hour traffic volume from a development as a result of traffic demand management strategies, linked trips, or other incentives to reduce PM peak hour traffic loads will be considered; and if valid, reduce the TIF.

19.06.040 E., Table 2

D. The TIF shall include a credit for the value of any dedication of land for, improvement to, or new construction of any system improvements provided by the developer, to facilities that are identified in the Six-Year TIP and CIP and are required as a condition of the development.

E. Upon application by the owner, the City Council may exempt a low income housing development, as defined by the current City of Bellingham Consolidated Plan (or successor thereto), from all or part of the TIF upon such conditions as the City Council deems appropriate. The City Council may also vote to exempt specific projects, or components thereof, within proposed development activities with broad public purposes from all or part of the required fees upon such conditions as the City Council deems appropriate. The determination to grant or deny an exemption shall be in the sole discretion of the City Council after consideration in an open public meeting of the public benefit of the specific project, the hardship to the project of the TIF, the impacts of the project, the availability of public funding to pay the TIF payable on the project and other factors deemed relevant by the City Council. If an exemption is granted, the TIF attributable to the development shall be paid from public funds other than TIF accounts, consistent with RCW 82.02.060 (2).

[Ord. 2011-01-003; Ord. 2009-04-021; Ord. 2006-11-106]