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Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the words set out in this section shall have the following meanings:

“Administrator” means the city public works director or designee.

“Building permit” means an official document or official certification which authorizes the construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, erection, demolition, moving or repair of a building or structure within the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan Area. In the case of a change in use or occupancy of an existing building or structure, the term shall specifically include certificates of occupancy, as those terms are defined in the California Building Code as may be adopted by the city council.

“Capital improvements” means transportation, planning, preliminary engineering, engineering design studies, land surveys, right-of-way acquisition, engineering, permitting and construction of all the necessary features for any transportation facility projects including, but not limited to:

1. Construction of new through lanes;

2. Construction of new turn lanes;

3. Construction of new frontage or access roads;

4. Construction of new bridges and widening;

5. Construction of new drainage facilities in conjunction with new roadway construction;

6. Purchase and installation of traffic signalization (including both new and upgrading signalization);

7. Construction of curbs, medians and shoulders in conjunction with new roadway construction;

8. Relocating utilities to accommodate new roadway construction;

9. Other capacity increasing improvements, such as transportation systems measures.

“Construction Cost Index” means the ENR Annual Construction Cost Index (Los Angeles) as published by Engineering News Record, McGraw-Hill Cos.

“Expansion of the capacity of a road” means all road and intersection enhancements and includes, but is not limited to, extensions, widening intersection improvements, upgrading signalization and improving pavement conditions.

“Fee payer” means a person commencing a land development activity which generates or attracts traffic and who is applying to the city for the issuance of a building permit for a type of land development activity specified in the current resolution adopting the transportation impact fee schedule, regardless if the fee payer owns the land which is to be developed.

“Land development activity generating traffic” means any change in land use, or any construction or expansion of buildings or structures, or any change in the use of any building or structure that attracts or produces vehicular trips as determined by the administrator.

“Level of service (LOS)” means a qualitative measure that represents the collective factors of speed, travel time, traffic interruption, freedom to maneuver, safety, driving comfort and convenience and operation costs provided by a highway facility under a particular volume condition as set forth in the 1985 (or current edition) Highway Capacity Manual.

“Major residential facilities” means only multi-family complexes consisting of ten or more individual units constructed under one permit.

“Regional Transportation Facilities List” means those projects in the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan area which are included in the adopted Capital Improvement Plan annually updated by the city council. These facilities constitute some of the regional facilities needed to maintain a LOS C or prevent the degradation of roads which are currently below LOS C as shown in the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan—Circulation Element.

“Site-related improvements” means capital improvements and right-of-way dedications for direct access improvements to the development in question. Direct access improvements include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Site driveways and roads;

2. Median cuts made necessary by those driveways or roads;

3. Right turn, left turn, and deceleration or acceleration lanes leading to or from those driveways or roads;

4. Traffic control measures for those driveways or roads;

5. Access or frontage roads not identified on Regional Transportation Facilities List.*

“Transportation impact fee schedule” means the schedule of fees imposed on various land use types which is annually adopted by resolution of the city council. This fee schedule contains the fee per living unit for residential land use types and the fee per trip for nonresidential land use types. (Ord. 4150 § 1, 2003; Ord. 3736 § 1, 1996; Ord. 3513 § 1, 1993; Ord. 3429 § 1, 1992)

* Editor’s Note: The Regional Transportation Facilities List, referred to herein, has not been codified but may be found in the office of the city clerk attached to Ordinance No. 3429.