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"Equivalent dwelling unit (EDU)" means a measurement of the impact of a typical <br />single-family dwelling. A typical single-family detached dwelling unit represents, on average, <br />one EDU. <br />"Fair share" means a condition of zoning enacted prior to this ordinance which requires <br />payment of fees, based on the extent of the development allowed, for roads, pazks, police, fire, or <br />solid waste facilities, or any combination of these facilities. It may also allow a developer to <br />provide land or facilities in lieu of paying the fair share fee. <br />"Fire/EMS facilities" means land, buildings, vehicles and capital equipment owned by <br />the County and used for providing fire and emergency medical services, including fire stations, <br />fire department administrative offices, training facilities, fire-fighting apparatus and support <br />vehicles, and fire-fighting equipment. <br />"Fire/EMS system improvements" means capital improvements that result in a net <br />expansion of the capacity of fire/EMS facilities to serve new development. Remodeling, <br />replacement, or maintenance of existing equipment or facilities does not constitute fire/EMS <br />system improvements, except to the extent that such improvement has the net effect of adding <br />capacity. <br />"Functional population" means the number of people occupying space at the site of a land <br />use on a twenty-four hour per day, seven day per week basis. <br />"General plan" means the County of Hawaii 2005 general plan, and any revisions or <br />amendments thereto adopted by ordinance, including any revision resulting from a <br />comprehensive review. <br />"Gross floor azea" means the total area within the perimeter of the outside walls of a <br />building as measured from the inside surface of the exterior walls, with no deduction for <br />hallways, stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns, or other interior features. This is also the <br />total of the gross horizontal azea of all floors below the roof and: <br />1) Within the outer surface of the main walls of principal or accessory buildings; <br />2) Within the outer surface of the main walls and the centerlines of a party wall <br />sepazating such buildings or portions thereof; or <br />3) Within lines drawn pazallel to and two feet within the roof line of any building or <br />portions thereof without walls. <br />Gross floor azea excludes unscreened residential porches or balconies, vehicle parking garages, <br />accessory or commercial vehicular parking azeas and structures, and nonresidential arcades and <br />similar open areas that aze accessible to the general public, and aze not designed for or used as <br />sales, display, storage, service or production areas. <br />"Impact fee administrator" or "administrator" means the planning director. <br />"Impact fee fund administrator" means an administrator appointed by the mayor as <br />responsible for the provisions of article 3 of this chapter. <br />"Impact fees" means the road, pazk, fire/EMS, police, solid waste, and wastewater impact <br />fees. <br />"Impact-generating development" means any land development designed or intended to <br />permit a use of land that will increase the number of service units, including the types of <br />developments listed in the table contained in section 36-12(a). <br />"Impact-generating development, commencement of means for the purposes of roads, <br />parks, fire/EMS, police and solid waste impact fees, commencement occurs upon final <br />subdivision approval for a new small lot subdivision, or upon final plan approval or obtaining a <br />building permit for asingle-family development on existing lots of record or for other types of <br />r° -2- <br />