A. “City” means the city of Lynnwood, Washington.

B. “Director” means the director of the city’s department of development and business services or authorized designee.

C. “Owner” means the property owner of record.

D. “Multiple-unit residential” and “multiple-unit housing” are used synonymously in this chapter and mean a building having 20 or more dwelling units not designed or used as transient accommodations, not including hotels and motels, and designed for permanent residential occupancy resulting from new construction, rehabilitation or conversion of a vacant, underutilized or substandard building to multifamily housing.

E. “Permanent residential occupancy” means multiple-unit housing that provides either owner occupant housing or rental accommodations that is leased for a period of at least one month on a no-transient basis. This excludes accommodations that offer occupancy on a transient basis such as hotels and motels that predominately offer rental accommodations on a daily or weekly basis.

F. “Rehabilitation improvements” means modifications to existing structures that are vacant for 12 months or longer, which modifications substantially comply with existing building codes, or modifications to existing occupied structures, which modifications increase the number of multifamily housing units.

G. “Residential targeted area” means the area within or coterminous with the city center subarea boundary within the city’s subregional center as defined and described in the city comprehensive plan, which has been designated by the city council as the residential targeted area in accordance with this chapter and Chapter 84.14 RCW, and which has been found by the city council to be lacking sufficient available, convenient, attractive, livable, and desirable residential housing to meet the needs of the public.

H. “Urban center” means the city center subarea described in LMC 3.82.140, where urban residents may obtain a variety of products and services including, but not limited to, shops, offices, banks, restaurants, governmental agencies and a mixture of uses and activities that may include housing, recreation, and cultural activities in association with either commercial or office, or both uses. (Ord. 3399 § 2 (Exh. A), 2021; Ord. 2681 § 3, 2007)