A. The following development activity shall be exempted from the payment of TIFs:

1. Alteration, expansion, or replacement of an existing single-family home.

2. Miscellaneous improvements that do not generate increased p.m. peak hour trips including, but not limited to, fences, walls, residential swimming pools, and signs.

3. Demolition or moving of a structure when additional p.m. peak hour trips are not generated.

4. A change of use that does not generate additional trips per unit of development according to the trip generation rates established in the transportation impact fee rate schedule in BIMC 15.30.200.

5. Any change of use of an existing building or tenant space 5,000 square feet or less, unless said building or tenant space has been vacant for more than 12 consecutive months, as determined by the director.

6. Miscellaneous permits for activities that do not generate any new trips.

7. Rezones, comprehensive plan amendments, subdivisions, boundary line adjustment and lot line eliminations, or any other land use permits.

8. Buildings or structures constructed by a regional transit authority pursuant to RCW 82.02.090.

9. Any building permit application that has been submitted to the city before 4:00 p.m. the business day before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter that has been deemed complete based on the information on file as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter.

10. Affordable housing as defined by BIMC 18.21.020 and 18.36.030 or their successors.

11. Pursuant to RCW 82.02.060, the city may provide exemptions for development activities with broad public purposes; provided, that the impact fees from such development activity shall be paid from public funds other than impact fee funds. The director shall be authorized to determine whether a particular development activity falls within an exemption identified in this section or under other applicable law. Determinations of the director shall be in writing and shall be subject to the appeals procedures established in Chapter 2.16 BIMC. (Ord. 2025-04 § 1, 2025; Ord. 2017-21 § 4, 2017: Ord. 2016-16 § 1, 2016: Ord. 2015-07 § 1, 2015)