19.64.070 Parking fee in lieu.
A. Applicability. Developments may pay a fee in lieu of off-street parking requirements established in AMC 19.64.040, provided the following conditions are met:
1. The city has adopted a parking fee-in-lieu plan with provisions for the rates, collection, and use of funds.
2. The development is new or an expansion of leasable area.
3. The development is in one of the following locations:
a. The CBD zone.
b. The OT zone east of M Avenue.
c. The C zone north of 12th Street.
d. The MS zone west of R Avenue.
e. The CM zone west of R Avenue.
B. Number of Spaces. Up to 50 percent of the minimum parking space requirements of this chapter may be waived if all provisions of this section are met. Additional reduction opportunities up to an additional 50 percent may be waived if supported by a parking study per AMC 19.64.020(H).
C. Fee Payment.
1. Rate. The fee in lieu per parking space must be set by the Director and be based upon the current market rates for acquiring, planning, designing, developing, financing, and maintaining public off-street parking facilities. The Director may maintain separate rate schedules based upon the different costs of surface parking facilities and structured parking facilities. The Director may apply the rate that is consistent with the city’s current public parking plan.
2. Timing. The fee must be paid prior to the issuance of a building permit.
D. Use of Fee.
1. Funds from the parking fee-in-lieu program must be deposited by the City of Anacortes Treasurer in a special fund to be designated the “Anacortes off-street parking cumulative fund.” The City Council may direct that other moneys be transferred into the fund to be used for the purposes of the fund.
2. The fund must be used exclusively for acquiring, planning, designing, developing, financing, and maintaining public off-street parking facilities by purchase or lease in the areas identified in subsection (A)(3) of this section. The number of parking spaces planned and provided must be at least equal to the number of parking spaces waived for private development under this section.
3. Parking facilities provided with this fee must be available for general public use at all times, including for long-term residential parking. Use of such parking facilities may require time-based fees, and other restrictions may apply, as determined by the city’s current parking plan. (Ord. 3040 § 2 (Att. A), 2019)