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A. Plan adoption. In order for the city to collect school impact fees on behalf of a school district, said school district’s capital facilities plan shall be adopted as a portion of the city of Vancouver’s comprehensive plan in accordance with the provisions of this section.

B. Plan submittal. In conjunction with mandated comprehensive plan updates, a school district requesting impact fees shall submit to the city planning commission a capital facilities plan adopted by the school board and consisting of the following elements:

1. A standard of service which identifies the program year, class size by grade span, number of classrooms, types of facilities, and other factors identified by the school district.

2. The district’s capacity over the next six years based upon an inventory of the district’s facilities either existing or under construction and the district’s standard of service.

3. A forecast of future needs for school facilities based upon the district’s enrollment projections.

4. At least a six-year financing plan component, updated as necessary to maintain at least a six-year forecast period, for financing needed school facilities within projected funding levels.

5. Application of the formula set out in subsection F of this section based upon information contained in the capital facilities plan. Separate fees shall be calculated for single-family and multifamily types of dwelling units, based upon the student generation rates determined by the district for each type of dwelling unit. If insufficient information is available for a district to calculate a multifamily student generation rate, a county-wide average shall be utilized. For purposes of this chapter, manufactured homes and each unit of a duplex shall be treated as single-family dwellings.

C. Planning Commission review. The planning commission shall review a school district’s capital facilities plan or plan update in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.

1. Factors. The planning commission shall consider:

a. Whether the district’s forecasting system for enrollment projections appears reasonable and reliable;

b. Whether the anticipated level of state and voter-approved funding appears reasonable and historically reliable;

c. Whether the district appropriately applied the formula set out in subsection F of this section.

2. Public hearing. In the event the district or the planning commission on its own motion proposes to modify the school impact fee, the planning commission shall not make its recommendation until holding a duly advertised public hearing on the proposal.

3. Recommendation. The planning commission may request a school district to review and to resubmit its capital facilities plan or update consistent with the provisions of this section. The planning commission shall submit an annual report to the board for each school district for which school impact fees are collected.

D. Council action. No new or revised school impact fees shall be effective until adopted by the council following a duly advertised public hearing to consider the school district’s capital facilities plan or plan update.

E. Interlocal agreement. School impact fees shall not become effective until the school district has entered into an interlocal agreement provided for in VMC 20.915.100.

F. Formula. The impact fee component for schools shall be separately calculated for each participating school district using the following formula:

SIF = { (CS × SF) − (SM) − (TC) − (FC) } × A

1. SIF means the school component of the total development impact fee.

2. CS means the cost of the improvements for each type of facility listed in the school district’s capital facilities plan less the cost to cure existing overcapacity divided by the capacity of the improvement. Type of facility means elementary school, middle school and high school. The development cost by service area is shown in Table 20.915.060-1.

3. SF means student factor. The student factor is the number of students typically generated from one residential unit for each type of school facility.

4. SM means state match. State match is the amount received from the state toward school construction costs. The state match component of the formula is that amount representing the per student amount of state matching funds. This is calculated for each type of facility as: student factor times Boeckh Index (average annual construction cost of a school facility per square foot) times square-foot standard per student established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction times state match percentage (that percentage of the total cost of a school facility funded by state funds). The state match for each school district shall be calculated annually.

5. TC means tax credit. This is calculated as:

TC = ((1 + i)10 − 1) / (i(1 + i)10) × (AAV) × (SPTL)

a. AAV means the average assessed value for the dwelling per single family unit.

b. SPTL means the current school district capital property tax levy rate.

c. i means the current interest rate as stated in the Bond Buyer Twenty Bond General Obligation Bond index.

6. FC means facilities credit. This is the value of any improvements listed in a school district’s capital facilities plan provided by the developer.

7. A means an adjustment for the portion of anticipated additional tax revenues resulting from a development that is prorated to system improvements contained in the capital facilities plan. The adjustment for school impacts is determined to be 85 percent.

Table 20.915.060-1. School District Impact Fees

School District

Single-Family

Multifamily

Battle Ground

$10,760

$3,845

Camas

$6,650

$6,650

Evergreen

$6,432

$3,753

Vancouver

$2,786

$2,486

(Ord. M-4402 § 3(Y), 2023; Ord. M-4289 § 4, 2019; Ord. M-4223 § 4, 2017; Ord. M-4147 § 4, 2015; Ord. M-3994 § 5, 2011; Ord. M-3959 § 45, 2010; Ord. M-3952 § 1, 2010; Ord. M-3951 § 1, 2010; Ord. M-3909 § 1, 2008; Ord. M-3854 § 1, 2007; Ord. M-3785 § 2, 2006; Ord. M-3736 § 1, 2006; Ord. M-3730 § 34, 2005; Ord. M-3663 § 23, 2004; Ord. M-3653 § 2, 2004; Ord. M-3643, 2004)