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• •'+tY'Of k' COUNTY OF HAWAII ;• A: •; STATE OF HAWAI I . 7TH OF•Mp`I ' RESOLUTION NO. 320 12 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN EXEMPTION FROM THE STATE LAND USE DESIGNATION AND A CERTAIN REQUIREMENT OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII ZONING CODE FOR NINETEEN HOUSING UNITS TO BE UTILIZED BY HOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC. AS LOW-INCOME SENIOR HOUSING. WHEREAS,the Hawai`i County Council (County Council) adopted Resolution 371-10 to authorize the Office of Housing and Community Development to transfer twenty-four housing units located in Kawaihae to Council District Five for use as transitional housing for low-income persons at the designated site identified by Tax Map Key No. (3) 1-5-006:017 (the Property); and WHEREAS,the County Council adopted Resolution 121-11 to exempt the Property from the Agriculture One-Acre (A-1a) zoning to allow the Property to be used as permitted by the Multi-Family Residential Two Thousand (RM-2) zoning; and WHEREAS, nineteen housing units have been relocated to the Property to provide nineteen low-income senior housing units; and WHEREAS, Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS), Section 201H-38, in conjunction with HRS 46-15.1, allows the County, with approval of the County Council, to exempt low-income housing projects from certain statutory requirements and a Zoning Code requirement to facilitate the development of the project; and WHEREAS, HOPE Services Hawai'i Inc. has requested that the County exempt the Property from the current State Land Use Agricultural designation to allow the nineteen housing units that are typically allowed within the State Land Use "Urban" district and to exempt the Property from a certain Zoning Code requirement; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the state land use designation from Agriculture to Urban for the Property is hereby approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the exemption from a certain Zoning Code requirement requested for the Property, attached hereto as "Exhibit A" is hereby approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution will take effect immediately.