COM 0307.000 2006-2008 - Laserfiche WebLink

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~o~MtY or y~ Ali. COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25, ARTICLE 2, DIVISION 4, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION) BY ADDING A NEW SECTION RELATED TO CONCURRENCY CONDITIONS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Purpose and findings. The Council finds that because of road congestion in Hawaii County, it is necessary to assess the traffic impacts of major developments, and if they will add traffic to roads that are now too congested, or will be too congested in the future, that the rezoning should not take effect unless improvements to the traffic situation occur at or before the occupancy of the project. At the same time, the Council recognizes that the lack of affordable housing near employment centers is one of the factors that creates traffic problems, by forcing workers to commute long distances, and does not want to inhibit the supply of affordable housing. In addition, there are situations where commercial or light industrial rezoning may be desirable to reduce traffic. For example, thousands of homes are being built in rural subdivisions approved in the 1950's and 1960's, mostly in Puna and Ka'u. These generally have no areas zoned for commercial and light industrial uses, and development of these necessazy services has not kept pace with the movement of population to these azeas. The Council also finds that it is desirable to have standard expectations for water supply for new rezonings. In some rural areas, however, there is no reasonable prospect of a public water system, but the county may wish to allow some commercial and possibly light industrial rezoning to serve the growing rural population. The water supply necessary for sanitation and firefighting, in these circumstances, can be handled by requiring adequate storage facilities.