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BRPDI nitiated- DwellingsMCX.doc- 08 -25 -14 <br />COUNTY OF HAWAII PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />BACKGROUND AND RECOMMENDATION <br />PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED <br />AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 25 (ZONING CODE), ARTICLE 5 <br />RELATING TO ZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS FOR DOUBLE AND <br />MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLINGS WITHIN THE MCX ZONING DISTRICT <br />The Planning Director has initiated the following amendments to Chapter 25 (Zoning <br />Code), Article 5 of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), relating to <br />double - family and multiple- family dwellings within the MCX district. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Recently, the Hawaii County Council introduced Bill 191, which sought to allow <br />Village Commercial (CV) zoning district uses in the Light Industrial (ML) zoning <br />district, and Bill 192, which sought to allow Village Commercial (CV) zoning district <br />uses in the Industrial - Commercial Mixed (MCX) zoning district. The Windward and <br />Leeward Planning Commissions voted to send an unfavorable recommendation for both <br />Council - initiated bills to the Hawaii County Council. As an alternative, the Planning <br />Director is initiating this Director - initiated bill to add a double - family and multiple - <br />family residential component to the MCX zoning district. <br />ANALYSIS <br />According to Hawaii County Code, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), the purpose of <br />the MCX zoning district is to allow mixing of some industrial uses with commercial uses. <br />The intent of this zoning district is to provide for areas of diversified businesses and <br />employment opportunities by permitting a broad range of uses, without exposing <br />nonindustrial uses to unsafe and unhealthy environments (emphasis added). The <br />MCX zoning district is intended to promote and maintain a viable mix of light industrial <br />and commercial uses. In addition, according to the County of Hawaii General Plan, <br />Chapter 14, Land Use, "Mixed use light industrial and commercial zones may include, <br />but are not limited to, wholesale, retail, office uses and personal and business services." <br />The Planning Director believes there is support to allow double - family and <br />multiple- family residential uses within the MCX zoning district. The MCX zoning <br />district has excluded those uses generally considered unsafe and hazardous and relegated <br />Re: Bill 4; Comm. 16 <br />