(1) “Affected facility” means the city roads and intersections selected by the public works director for which concurrency evaluations and monitoring are required; or any utility or facility provided by the city or another service provider that is required for the development.

(2) “Applicant” means a person or entity who has applied for a development permit or a concurrency determination.

(3) “Available capacity” means the capacity for a facility that is currently available for use.

(4) “Certificate of capacity” means a document issued by the city of Stanwood indicating the quantity of capacity for each concurrency facility that has been reserved for a specific development project on a specific property.

(5) “Concurrency” means that improvements or strategies are in place at the time of development, or that a financial commitment is in place to complete the improvement or strategies within six years.

(6) “Concurrency evaluation” means the comparison of an applicant’s impact on facilities to the capacity, including available and planned capacity of the facilities.

(7) Concurrency Evaluation, Preliminary. “Preliminary concurrency evaluation” means an informal, nonbinding assessment of available capacity.

(8) “Department” means the city of Stanwood public works department.

(9) “Director” means the city of Stanwood public works director.

(10) “Development permit” means a land use, site development, or building permit.

(11) Development Permit, Final. “Final development permit” means a site development permit or building permit.

(12) Development Permit, Preliminary. “Preliminary development permit” means a short plat, preliminary plat, shoreline substantial development/conditional use permit, preliminary site plan approval, conditional use permit, binding site plan approval, or SEPA.

(13) “ITE trip generation manual” means the manual prepared by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, latest edition, for the purpose of assigning numbers of vehicle trips associated with various land uses.

(14) “Level of service (LOS) standard” means the minimum capacity of affected facilities that must be provided per unit of demand or other appropriate measure of need as defined in the Stanwood Comprehensive Plan.

(15) “Planned capacity” means the capacity for a facility that is not yet available, but for which the necessary facility construction, expansion or modification project is contained in the current adopted city capital improvement program or the State Department of Transportation’s list of programmed projects, and is scheduled to be completed within six years.

(16) “Service provider” means the department or agency responsible for providing the facility.

(17) “Transportation demand management (TDM)” means the use of strategies to reduce commute trips made by single occupant vehicles and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per employee.

(18) “Trip generation study” means a study prepared by a licensed engineer documenting the number of vehicle trips associated with a proposed land use for the purpose of determining whether the proposal is exempt from a concurrency evaluation. (Ord. 1164 § 4, 2004; Ord. 1092 § 1, 2000).