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LAND USE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII 70o Bishop Street, Ste. t9z8 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Phone Su-gyt7 Fax 536-ot3z June t, zoos The Honorable Pete Hoffmann, Chair and Presiding Member County Council, County of Hawaii 333 Kilauea Avenue (Ben Franklin Building) zaa Floor, Council Room Hilo, HI 96~2o BY FACSIMILE: (8o8146t-8912 Dear Council Chair Hoffman and members; Subject: Bill No. 156 Ordinance to Amend Chapter a (Housing), Article I, Section ii-4(d), Hawaii County Code, to Include Affordable Housing Requirements for Industrial Park Developments My name is Dave Arakawa, Executive Director of the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii ("LURE"). LURE is a private, non-profit research and trade association whose members include major Hawaii landowners, developers, and a utility company. One of LURF's missions is to advocate for reasonable and rational land use planning, legislation, and regulations affecting common problems in Hawaii. LURE is opposed to the Hawaii County Council's ("Council") possible reconsideration of Bill > 56, based on the following: • The law requires that the exactions proposed by Bi115t to be justified by detailed analysis, studies or reports. The Council and the County of Hawaii ("County") have not completed the required analysis of the locality's needs, and have not completed the required thorough and detailed studies or report of the workforce jobs required and generated by the new, or additions, or reconstruction to existing industrial park developments and confirmation that those prospective industrial workers are in need of housing and would financially qualify for such housing; • It is unconstitutional for the Council to impose requirements on industrial park developments to build or contribute to affordable housing, unless the Council and the County can demonstrate, based on thorough and detailed studies and reports, a clear rational nexus and proportional nexus between such industrial park developments and the imposition of affordable housing requirements; and • The Council's proposed Bill 156 is counter intuitive and would likely discourage investments in new, addition, or reconstruction to existing industrial park developments, and is likely to result in very little job creation and minimal affordable housing.