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§ 25-1-5 H AWAI‘I C OUNTY C ODE “Frontage” means that portion of a building site which abuts a road, street, or highway. “Fuel cell electric vehicle” means a zero-emission electric vehicle that uses a fuel cell to convert hydrogen gas and oxygen into electricity that is used in a vehicle powertrain for propulsion. “Funeral home” or “funeral parlor” means a business establishment where the bodies of the dead are prepared for burial or cremation and religious or memorial services can be held. “Funeral services” means an assortment of services provided by mortuaries, crematoriums, and funeral homes that may provide for: the sale of pre-death final expenses insurance, sale of caskets or closed containers for cremains, coordination for burials of caskets and cremains, embalming, viewings, storage and transportation of the decedent or cremains, funeral planning, religious or memorial services, and completion of death certificates and other legal documents. “Future width lines” means lines established on the zoning map, for purposes of future widening of an existing street and establishing the front property line of an affected building site. The area within these lines or between a future width line and an existing street right-of-way line, shall be deemed to be a street right-of-way, and cannot be considered in computing the minimum yard required on any building site. “Group living facility” means a 24-hour residential facility licensed or certified, and monitored by the State of Hawai‘i’s Department of Health (DOH) or Department of Human Services (DHS), for persons covered under the Fair Housing Act, as amended, containing between six and eight unrelated adults and/or children, plus unrelated home operator or staff who shall not be included in the resident count. (a) The purpose of this definition is to provide housing to protected and targeted populations that require therapeutic, medicinal, life skills training, or other support systems. These facilities shall be integrated into a variety of neighborhoods while maintaining the integrity and character of the neighborhood(s), to promote a non-institutional environment and provide the maximum therapeutic and beneficial value to residents of a group living facility. (b) Unless a use permit or special permit is obtained: (1) A group living facility shall have no more than eight residents; (2) Only one group living facility per tax map key parcel; (3) No other such licensed or certified dwelling shall be located within 500 feet of the perimeter of any tax map key parcel containing any other group living facility, with the exception of an adult residential care home or an intermediate care facility/mental retardation community (ICF/MR-C). (c) A group living facility in existence on the effective date of this ordinance may continue in operation despite non-compliance with the criteria contained in the definition of “group living facility” for a maximum of 15 months from the effective date of this ordinance to allow the group living facility to come into compliance with said criteria or to obtain a use permit or special permit. “Guest house” means an accessory building used as sleeping quarters for guests of the occupants of the main dwelling and having no cooking facilities. SUPP. 13 (1-2023) 25-8