Comm No 0055 - Final Text of Proposals Submitted to County Clerk

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commission, meeting separately, and each commission shall make its own recommendation to the council. Each planning commission, meeting separately, shall make its own recommendations to the council on changes to the subdivision and zoning codes and any other planning or land use matters which apply generally and not to a specific area. The planning director shall determine which commission shall take jurisdiction over any matters when not fully established by the charter." Section 2. Article VI, Chapter 7, Section 6-7.6, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), is repealed: [(a) The existing planning commission shall remain in effect and continue to hear and decide matters pursuant to Section 6 7.3, Hawai`i County Charter (2000), until April 1, 2009, the date upon which the windward planning commission and the lccward planning commission becomes effective. Matters pending before the existing planning commission that arc not finally decided by April 1, 2009, will be transferred to the windward or lccward planning commissions, as appropriate to be finalized. Members of the existing planning commission whose terms will not have expired on April 1, 2009, shall hold over and continue to serve the remainder of their assigned according to their respective residence address. (e) If there shall exist vacancies on either the windward planning commission or the leeward planning commission not filled by term hold over, the mayor shall appoint the remaining members of the windward planning commission and the lccward planning commission in accordance with Section 13 'I, Hawai`i County Charter (2000).]" Section 3. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2020), the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. Section 4. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the electorate. Section 5. Severability. If any provision of this charter proposal, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the charter proposal which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this charter proposal are declared to be severable. Section 6. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. 37