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COUNTY OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. STATE OF HAWAII 75 13 A RESOLUTION URGING THE MAYOR TO IMMEDIATELY IMPLEMENT THE WEST HAWAII SCHOOL IMPACT FEE. WHEREAS, the 2007 Legislature passed the School Impact Fee Law, which became Title 18, Chapter 302A, Section 302A-1601 through 302A-1612 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes; and WHEREAS, the School Impact Fee Law requires new residential developments within designated school impact districts to provide land for schools or pay a fee in lieu of contributing land proportionate to the impacts of the new residential development on the existing school facilities; and WHEREAS, the School Impact Fee Law also requires that new residential developments within designated school impact districts contribute to school construction impact fees proportionate to their impact; and WHEREAS, the purpose of this law is to ensure that new residential developments within identified school impact fee districts contribute a fair share toward the construction of new, or expansion of existing, public school facilities; and WHEREAS, a key reason the Board of Education (BOE) selected West Hawaii to be the first location for implementation of this program was that compared to other districts within the State, there were more proposed sizeable developments in West Hawaii that would not otherwise be subject to providing for school facilities construction; and WHEREAS, the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) made a concerted effort to involve the West Hawaii community in designing the school impact fee program, including: 1. A public notice of hearing, a detailed map of the proposed district, and a display advertisement concerning the proposed West Hawaii school impact fee district were published in the October 17, 2008 edition of West Hawai `i Today;