A. An appeal of the decision of the County, the third party reviewer, or the Hearing Examiner with regard to the imposition of an impact fee or fee amounts may be filed by the applicant or the District by making application and paying the appropriate fee at PPW. Any appeal shall follow the appeal process for the underlying permit and not be subject to a separate appeal process.

B. Any applicant may pay the impact fees imposed by this Title under protest in order to obtain a building permit. No appeal shall be permitted until the impact fees at issue have been paid under protest.

C. Further appeals of a decision under this Title shall be considered by Pierce County according to procedures in Chapter 1.22 PCC, provided that appeals regarding the impact fees may only be filed by the applicant for the property where such development activity will occur, the County or the District.

D. The Hearing Examiner is authorized to make Findings of Fact regarding the applicability of the impact fees to a given development activity, including the land use category used, and trip generation rates applied for traffic impact fees, the availability or amount of credit, or the accuracy or applicability of an independent fee calculation.