“Applicant” means a person who applies to the city for a building permit.

“Appurtenance” means any fixed machinery or equipment, structure or other fixture, including integrated hardware, software or other components, associated with a capital facility that is necessary or convenient to the operation, use, or maintenance of a capital facility, but excluding replacement of the same after initial installation.

“Building permit” means any permit issued by the city that authorizes vertical construction, increases square footage, authorizes changes to land use, or provides for the addition of a residential or nonresidential point of demand to a water or wastewater system.

“Capital facility” means an asset having a useful life of three or more years that is a component of one or more categories of necessary public service provided by the city. A capital facility may include any associated purchase of real property, architectural and engineering services leading to the design and construction of buildings and facilities, improvements to existing facilities, improvements to or expansions of existing facilities, and associated financing and professional services. Wherever used herein, “infrastructure” shall have the same meaning as “capital facilities.”

“Commercial nonresidential land use subcategory” includes those nonlodging land uses described as permitted and conditional uses in the following zoning districts: CN (neighborhood commercial), C-1 (general commercial), C-2 (general commercial), and nonlodging PD (planned development) or SU (special use) developments all as set forth in the Sedona Land Development Code.

“Credit” means a reduction in an assessed development impact fee resulting from developer contributions to, payments for, construction of, or dedications for capital facilities included in an infrastructure improvements plan pursuant to SCC 14.05.100 (or as otherwise permitted by this chapter).

“Credit agreement” means a written agreement between the city and the developer(s) of subject development that allocates credits to the subject development pursuant to SCC 14.05.100. A credit agreement may be included as part of a development agreement pursuant to SCC 14.05.110.

Credit Allocation. A term used to describe when credits are distributed to a particular development or parcel of land after execution of a credit agreement, but are not yet issued.

Credit Issuance. A term used to describe when the amount of an assessed development impact fee attributable to a particular development or parcel of land is reduced by applying a credit allocation.

“Developer” means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, municipal corporation, state agency, or other person or entity undertaking land development activity, and their respective successors and assigns.

“Development agreement” means an agreement prepared in accordance with the requirements of SCC 14.05.110, A.R.S. Section 9-500.05 and any applicable requirements of the city code.

“Dwelling unit” means a house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters or, if vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.

“Equipment” means machinery, tools, materials, and other supplies, not including vehicles, a capital facility needs to provide the level of service specified by the infrastructure improvement plan, but excluding replacement of the same after initial development of the capital facility.

“Fee report” means a written report developed pursuant to this chapter that identifies the methodology for calculating the amount of each development impact fee, explains the relationship between the development impact fee to be assessed and the cost per service unit calculated in the infrastructure improvements plan, and which meets other requirements set forth in A.R.S. Section 9-463.05.

“Gross impact fee” means the total development impact fee to be assessed against a subject development on a per unit basis, prior to subtraction of any credits.

“Industrial land use subcategory” includes those land uses allowed in a C-3 heavy commercial/light manufacturing district as set forth in the Sedona Land Development Code, and includes light and heavy industry, industrial parks, manufacturing, warehousing, mini-storage, utilities, and similar uses as determined by the public works director.

“Infrastructure improvements plan” means a document or series of documents that meet the requirements set forth in A.R.S. Section 9-463.05, including those adopted pursuant to SCC 14.05.070 to cover any category or combination of categories of necessary public services.

“Institutional land use subcategory” means a category of nonresidential land use that includes private schools, hospitals, religious facilities, day care centers, and other similar public and quasi-public uses as determined by the public works director when not elsewhere classified in other land use categories in the fee schedule.

“Land use assumptions” means projections of changes in land uses, densities, intensities and population for a service area over a period of at least 10 years as specified in A.R.S. Section 9-463.05(T)(6).

“Lodging land use subcategory” means temporary lodging facilities such as hotels, motels, timeshares/fractional shares, recreational vehicle parks, and similar uses as determined by the public works director.

“Mobile homes and other land use subcategory” includes structures meeting the definition of “mobile home” or “factory-built home” as defined in Article 2 SLDC.

“Necessary public services” shall have the meaning prescribed in A.R.S. Section 9-463.05(T)(5).

“Nonresidential land use subcategory” (applicable to storm drainage development fees) includes all commercial, office, institutional or industrial developments and other similar uses as may be determined by the public works director.

“Office nonresidential land use subcategory” includes those developments that are consistent with the OP (office professional) zoning district as described in SLDC 619 and includes administrative and executive offices, real estate, insurance clerical and professional offices, and other similar uses as determined by the public works director.

“Offset” means an amount which is subtracted from the overall costs of providing necessary public services to account for those capital components of infrastructure or associated debt that have been or will be paid for by a development through taxes, fees (except for development impact fees), and other revenue sources, as determined by the city pursuant to SCC 14.05.070.

“Parks and recreational facilities” means a category of necessary public services including but not limited to parks, swimming pools and related facilities and equipment located on real property not larger than 30 acres in area, as well as park facilities larger than 30 acres where such facilities provide a direct benefit. “Parks and recreational facilities” do not include such park and recreational facilities for which development impact fees may not be charged per A.R.S. Section 9-463.05.

“Police” means a category of necessary public services, including vehicles and equipment, that are used by law enforcement agencies to preserve the public peace, prevent crime, detect and arrest criminal offenders, protect the rights of persons and property, regulate and control motorized and pedestrian traffic, train sworn personnel, and/or provide and maintain police records, vehicles, equipment, and communications systems. “Police facilities” do not include vehicles and equipment used to provide administrative services, or helicopters or airplanes. “Police facilities” do not include any facility that is used for training officers from more than one station or substation.

“Residential land use” includes all permitted land uses authorized in “residential districts” as delineated in Article 5 SLDC, SLDC 500 et seq.

Service Area. Except for storm drainage impact fees, the “service area” is the entire area within the city limits. For storm drainage impact fees, the “service area” is that area for each corresponding drainage basin as described in the storm drainage facilities IIP.

“Service unit” means a standardized measure of consumption or use attributable to an individual unit of development calculated pursuant to generally accepted engineering or planning standards for a particular category of necessary public services or facility expansions.

“Single unit high density land use subcategory” includes development of a single-family dwelling in the following zoning districts or designations: RS-6 or RMH-6 or equivalent density development within a PD, PRD, or SU zone.

“Single unit low density land use subcategory” includes development of a single-family dwelling in the following zoning districts or designations: RS-70, RS-36, or RS-35 or equivalent density development within a PD, PRD, or SU zone.

“Single unit medium density land use subcategory” includes development of a single-family dwelling in the following zoning districts or designations: RS-18A, RS-18B, RS-12, RMH-12, RMH-10, RS-10A, or RS-10B or equivalent density development within a PD, PRD, or SU zone.

“Single unit residential land use subcategory” (applicable to non-utility development fees) includes all detached and attached residential structures characteristic of a primary residence, even if the residence is subsequently rented and further includes mobile homes and manufactured homes on individual parcels.

“Single unit very low density land use subcategory” includes development of a single-family dwelling in the following zoning districts or designations; RS-5A or equivalent density development within a PD, PRD, or SU zone as described in the Sedona Land Development Code.

“Storm drainage” means a category of necessary public services including but not limited to storm sewers constructed in sizes needed to provide for storm water management for areas beyond major street projects and storm water detention/retention basins, tanks, pump stations and channels necessary to provide for proper storm water management, including any appurtenances for those facilities.

“Street facilities” means a category of necessary public services including arterial or collector streets or roads, traffic signals, rights-of-way, and improvements thereon, bridges, culverts, irrigation tiling, and regional transportation facilities.

“Subject development” means a land area linked by a unified plan of development, which must be contiguous unless the land area is part of a development agreement executed in accordance with SCC 14.05.110.

“Two plus land use subcategory” includes residential developments in which multiple dwellings such as duplexes, triplexes, condominiums, and townhomes are constructed. For purposes of this chapter only, timeshare or interval or points based units are included in this category. [Ord. 2014-04 § 1, 5-22-2014; Res. 2014-09 Exh. A, 5-22-2014].