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3- B-O7; 4: 50PM:^8095203463 ,'8095253463 ~ <br /> ~I <br /> ` <br /> i~ <br /> ~ <br /> LAND USE RESEARCH y <br /> FOUNDATION OF HAWAII <br /> <br /> ~ 70o Bishop Street, Ste. 2928 <br /> Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 <br /> Phone 52x-4727 <br /> Fax 536-oy3z <br /> March g, 200 <br /> Councilmember Pete Hoffman, Chair and Presiding Member <br /> County of Hawaii, County Council <br /> 333 Kilauea Avenue <br /> Hilo, Hawaii g6~2o BY FACSIMILE• (808) 461-8ut2 <br /> ~ Dear Council Chair Hoffman; <br /> Subject: Bill No. 156 Ordinance to Amend Chapter a of the County Code <br /> i to Include Affordable Housing Requirements for Industrial <br /> Park Developments <br /> My name is Dave Arakawa, Executive Director of the Land Use Research Foundation of <br /> Hawaii ("LURE"). LURE is a private, non-profit research and trade association whose <br /> members include major Hawaii landowners, developers, and a utility company. One of <br /> LURF's missions is to advocate for reasonable and rational land use planning, <br /> legislation, and regulations affecting common problems in Hawaii. <br /> f LURE is opposed to Bill 156 because, while we understand the attempt to link <br /> employment centers with the need for more "workforce" housing, requiring industrial or <br /> commercial developments to build workforce housing is counter intuitive and would only <br /> discourage investments in industrial and commercial developments, resulting in no new <br /> job creation at all. <br /> According to Bill 156, the Housing Element of the Hawai i County General Plan (enacted <br /> as Ordinance No. o5-z5) clearly states that a policy of the County of Hawai i shall be that <br /> `large industries or developments that create a demand for housing shall provide <br /> employee housing based upon a ratio to be determined by an analysis of the locality's <br /> needs."The County Council finds that industrial developments which are comprised of <br /> multiple individual enterprises are, in fact, large industries which generate substantial <br /> employment and demands for employee housing. Therefore, such industrial <br /> developments should be subject to the affordable housing requirements articulated in <br /> ~ Chapter a (Housing) of the Hawai i County Code. <br /> I <br /> Based on these findings, Bill 156 proposes to amend Chapter a of the Hawaii County <br /> Code to require that industrial uses fulfill the affordable housing requirements. <br /> Specifically, the bill proposes that "industrial enterprises generating more than one <br /> hundred employees on a full-time equivalent basis, whether new or an addition or <br /> reconstruction to existing facilities, and including one or more businesses at the same or <br /> <br />