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Form #: B-52 <br /> 7/18/91 <br /> DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE <br /> REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br /> DEPARTMENT: Finance DATE: April 23, 2013 <br /> STAFF CONTACT: Stan Sitko PHONE: x8286 <br /> A. REQUEST: <br /> Amend HCC Chapter 19, Section 19-89.5, Kuleana land exemption, to eliminate residential and agricultural <br /> zoning restrictions and consider qualification based on residential use, agricultural use or vacant land. <br /> Amendment also clarifies that residential use does not include vacation rental use. <br /> B. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION (USE ADDITIONAL SHEETS AS NEEDED): <br /> The Real Property Tax office has found that certain properties which should qualify for the Kuleana land <br /> exemption cannot be approved because the zoning does not meet current requirements. In certain areas <br /> zoning may have been set as Resort-Hotel, but properties within that area are in residential or agricultural <br /> use. In the case of the Kuleana properties, they have been in the family in residential use for many years <br /> and are not suitable for resort-hotel development. Allowing determinations to be based on use rather than <br /> zoning for this exemption is consitent with the intent of the law. <br /> Additionally, consistent with other areas of the real property tax code, the language is clarifying that residential <br /> use does not include vacation rental use. <br /> SIGNED: lkA4A1 / it' <br /> DATE: 4/23/13 <br /> Depart -nt Head <br />