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REPORT OF THE <br /> COMMITTEE ON PLANNING <br /> DATE: February 21, 2007 Re: Comm. No. 178Bi11 No. 52 <br /> PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa <br /> 78-128 Ehukai Street <br /> Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 <br /> TIME: 10:00 a.m. <br /> Council Chair and Members <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 52, reports as follows: <br /> Bill No. 52, transmitted via Communication No. 178 from Mayor Harry Kim, dated January 22, <br /> 2007, presents amendments to Chapter 23 (Subdivision), 25 (Zoning) and 27 (Flood Control) - <br /> Hawai'i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) initiated by the Planning Director. <br /> <br /> Bill No. 52 is an ordinance amending Chapters 23 (Subdivision Control Code), 25 (Zoning <br /> Code) and 27 (Flood Control Code), Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), <br /> Relating to stormwater Management. <br /> Communication No. 178 reports that the amendments to Chapters 23, 25 and 27 of the Hawaii <br /> County Code require that most new developments have onsite drainage of rainwater into <br /> drywells or other methods that infiltrate stormwater into the ground. Communication No. 178 <br /> notes this is standard practice in Hawaii County, however, the practice has never been enacted <br /> by ordinance or formal rule. <br /> Communication No. 178 further reports as follows: <br /> • The federal Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, sec. 6127, <br /> ("CZARA") contain a requirement that local governments enact management measures <br /> to reduce potential pollution of natural bodies of water (such as the ocean, rivers, <br /> streams, lakes and ponds) from stormwater runoff in urban areas. <br /> • Management measures require that initial runoff (sometimes called the "first flush"), be <br /> cleaned by infiltration into the ground through drywells or other porous drainage <br /> systems, through grassy areas such as vegetated swales, through sand filters, or by being <br /> kept in settling basins. <br /> • One potential penalty for failure to enact such management measures is that local <br /> government could lose its Coastal Zone Management Act funding. The Hawaii County <br /> Planning Department receives about $300,000 in each such funding yeaz that is used in <br /> its various coastal zone programs such a review of SMA major and minor permits, <br /> enforcement of SMA violations and a number of studies and educational programs. <br /> PC Report No. 17 <br /> <br />