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August 22, 2024, HSAC Executive Committee Meeting Minutes Page 13 nS�hSPSE As, ,C,� ORGOUNI�E� iii. County of Maui CM Paltin: Emailed written report. Passed resolution about splitting up the fiscal year for WIR and HSAC. Passed through our HSAC package as well. Considering an arson squad to deal with the widespread fires happening. General community pointing fingers to the homeless community about fires. Maui is social media engaged with Wednesday evening meetings for those not engaged on social media. Each council member updates their folks regularly. Not too much feedback unless we move too fast. There is a list is phasing out non conforming uses in apartment zone properties. I support a legal phase out, other jurisdictions have taken a 3-5 year phase out. It doesn't mean we can't pursue change in zonings for apartment zone properties in what is considered to be resort areas. So if people are concerned about the economic impact, we can lessen the blow in that way. I'd be more apt to change the zoning for apts along the shoreline. It's kind of a compromise, and sometimes you make nobody happy, or sometimes you make some people happy. iv. City and County of Honolulu CM Waters: (1)I introduced the empty homes tax. The idea is that if you keep your home empty the 1st year we're going to tax you at I %, second year at 2%, 3rd year at 3% and so on but with exemptions for caregivers, military deployment, ect. The real idea is to just try to get at the outside investors who are coming here and parking their money because our property taxes are amongst the lowest in the country. (2)Another point I wanted to make is how when all 4 counties are on the same page on various issues. It's almost like passing a State law. So to the extent that we can all work together to figure out common issues that we all agree on and get it done. That would be great. (3) The county of Honolulu is transferring 10 acres of land in Kailua to DHHL to build affordable housing. The counties have an obligation to the Hawaiian community as an agency of the state. So I gotta thank Esther Kiaaina for leading the charge on that. CM Carvalho: we're going through the same process of working with DHHL Hawaiian homes. There's a big big movement happening here on Kauai working with farms and council members. CM Kimball: I like having sort of a united front on some key issues that affect all of us. I think that's I of the fundamental purposes of HSAC. So we're definitely interested in something state level or that happens across all counties on vacant properties, that is really huge for us. Right now we are looking at how we treat investment properties differently from people that own homes as their primary residence and use part of it as an STVR and we're trying to constitutionally look at how we can separate those and treat those differently. How do you do that without frustrating the commerce clause and you know the association between states and whatnot. I think there's a broader discussion to have there about how we implement some of these things at the statewide level. Motion to accept county reports. Approved. c. NACo Report