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17.36.070 Apportionment of yearly total new residential units to categories of projects. All new residential units shall be classified in one of the following categories and shall be issued building permits in accordance with the regulations and limitations established for each category: A.Categories of Projects. There shall be three categories of projects as defined below: 1. Affordable Housing Project. A project which meets the minimum requirements as established from time to time by the city for providing housing to either: a. Lower income households,or b. Moderate income households. The requirements for qualifying as an affordable housing project shall be established by the city in implementing its affordable housing program. 2. Major Project. A project which meets any of the following criteria: a. Has 100 or more units, b. Has fewer than 100 units but whose developer wishes the certainty of a multi- year allocation of at least three years, c. Has received an annual allocation pursuant to a growth management program at a time prior to the effective date hereof which grants growth management approval to units in calendar year 1998 or later years. 3. First-Come, First-Served Project. All projects and/or single unit applications which are neither an "affordable housing project"nor a"major project"as defined in subsections(A)(1) and (A)(2)of this section. B.Establishment of Suballocations for Categories of Projects. 1. Affordable Housing Projects. Affordable housing projects shall have a suballocation of 50 units per year,beginning in 2001 and continuing each year thereafter. 2. Major Projects and First-Come, First-Served Projects. a. Major projects and first-come, first-served projects shall have an initial suballocation as set forth in the following table: Initial Suballocations Year Categories of projects 2001-2008 2009—Build out Major projects (units) 200 First-come, first-served projects (units) 100 Affordable housing projects (units) 400 50 Yearly limit(units) 350