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associated with an airport. This amendment will alter and amend the definition, or create the
<br /> definition, of primary airport in the definition section of the Zoning Code, as defined by the
<br /> FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration. Also included in the definition is a general list of
<br /> accessory land uses that are normally associated with what's called a primary airport.
<br /> So to define, "Primary airport"means a publicly owned airport that has more than 10,000
<br /> passenger boardings each calendar year, as defined by the FAA. Now, standard accessory uses
<br /> for the Primary airports include retail establishments, shopping, duty-free, dining, rentals,
<br /> automobile rentals, businesses service that service, businesses that service the airport, offices,
<br /> conference centers and hotels—common uses we have all seen at airports, especially rural
<br /> airports, across America. The accessory uses must be located on publicly owned lands and
<br /> support airport operations—so that's a key. This amendment will define "Primary airport" in the
<br /> definition section of the Zoning Code, as I just defined above.
<br /> The County has two international airports—of course, we know—Hilo and Kona. Hilo is situated
<br /> within the County's Limited Industrial, or ML, zoning district, and, while the Kona International
<br /> Airport is within the General Industrial, or MG, zoning district. Both are on publicly-owned lands.
<br /> These airports are constantly expanding and require the need to provide additional services to meet
<br /> that expansion. Currently, there is a number of accessory land uses associated with the primary
<br /> airports but are, that are not permitted within these, that aren't permitted within the Limited
<br /> Industrial and the General Industrial zoning districtsso, retail establishments, automobile rentals
<br /> which are not permitted in MG, offices, business,personal. So the main reason, or the primary
<br /> reason, for this amendment is to bring these uses in line with the Zoning Code.
<br /> Secondary reason for this amendment is that the County has received a request from the Department
<br /> of Transportation, that's a State department, State DOT Airports Division, to allow for conference
<br /> centers and for overnight accommodations, i.e. a hotel, to support airport operations. So that support
<br /> of airport operations means airport personnel, visitors, stranded passengers, and this, of course, is
<br /> primarily for the Kona International Airport. A hotel/conference center is identified at the Kona
<br /> International Airport in their current master plan, which was updated in 2010. The master plan states
<br /> that"many airports support hotels onsite in support of flight crews and overnight stays for
<br /> passengers traveling early the next day." In addition, FAA regulations require rest periods for pilots
<br /> between flights and the distance between an available hotel can affect flight schedule. So if they
<br /> have to drive all the way into Kona, so the idea is that this would provide one of those areas for, to,
<br /> for the flight crews onsite, so they wouldn't have to travel.
<br /> Okay, lastly, this new primary airport land use, along with its accessory uses, will be added as a
<br /> permitted use only within the County's ML and MG zoning districts. So that's—and then the
<br /> requirement along that, the Plan Approval must be secured by the planning director. So this means
<br /> that an applicant will need to submit plans to the Planning Department for Plan Approval prior to
<br /> any expansion of accessory uses, including the conference center and/or the hotel. The Plan
<br /> Approval review will allow the planning director to approve this request, including the requested
<br /> accessory uses. Additionally, it will allow them to, allow the planning director to review and
<br /> approve the associated elements of each of the use, such as the height of their hotel, the amount of
<br /> rooms, parking, setbacks, landscaping, etcetera.
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