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§ 25-1-5 H AWAI‘I C OUNTY C ODE <br />“Theater” means a facility which is used primarily for the performing arts or for the <br />viewing of motion picture films. Included are performing arts centers, concert halls and <br />other types of live theaters. <br />“Time share unit” means any multiple-family dwelling unit or hotel, which is <br />owned, occupied or possessed, under an ownership and/or use agreement among various <br />persons for less than a sixty-day period in any year for any occupant, and is regulated <br />under the provisions of chapter 514E, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, as amended. <br />“University” means a nationally-accredited institution of higher learning, whether <br />classified as a “university” or a “college” and whether public or private, including <br />community colleges, providing facilities for teaching, research and group learning and <br />authorized to grant academic degrees. <br />“Use” means the purpose to which land or any structure or improvement thereon or <br />both are or may be put. The word “use” is synonymous with terms “land use” and “use of <br />land” unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. <br />“Warehousing” means the storage of raw materials, finished products, merchandise <br />and/or other goods, within a building for subsequent delivery, transfer and/or pickup. <br />“Wholesaling and distribution” means the sale and/or distribution of manufactured <br />and/or processed products, merchandise or other goods in large quantities for <br />subsequent resale to retail establishments, and/or industrial, institutional and <br />commercial users. <br />“Yard” means an open space on the same building site with a building, which open <br />space lies between the building and the bounding lot lines, and is unoccupied and <br />unobstructed from the ground upward except for landscaping and except for fences, <br />walls, architectural features, pools, porte cocheres, cornices, canopies, roof overhangs, <br />eaves, porches, balconies, terraces, fire escapes, stairs, ramps and other similar features <br />authorized under article 4, division 4 of this chapter, and includes: <br />(A) “Front yard” which is a yard lying between the street line on which the <br />building site fronts or the future width line or the plan line for future street <br />and a line parallel thereto which runs through the point of the building <br />nearest to said street line, future width line or plan line. The depth of said <br />yard is the distance between the parallel lines. <br />(B) “Rear yard” which is a yard lying between the rear lot line and a line parallel <br />thereto extended to intersect the side lot lines, which line runs through the <br />point of a main building nearest the rear lot line. The depth of said yard is the <br />distance between the parallel lines. <br />(C) “Side yard” which is a yard lying between the front yard, the rear yard, the <br />side lot line and a line parallel thereto which runs through the point of the <br />building nearest to said lot line. The width of said yard is the distance between <br />the parallel lines. <br />(1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999; am 2000, ord 00-152, sec 1; am 2002, ord <br />02-70, sec 2; am 2007, ord 07-55, sec 1; ord 07-104, sec 2; am 2008, ord 08-155, sec 2; am <br />2009, ord 09-118, sec 17; am 2012, ord 12-28, sec 2; am 2018, ord 18-114, sec 3; am 2020, <br />ord 20-61, sec 9; ord 20-94, sec 2; am 2021, ord 21-26, sec 2; 2022, ord 22-95, sec 3; am <br />2024, ord 24-65, secs 4 and 5; ord 24-70, secs 5 and 6; am 2025, ord 25-55, secs 2 and 3; <br />25-1-5 <br />ord 25-66, secs 2, 3, and 4; ord 25-85, sec 1.) <br />SUPP. 19 (1-2026) <br />25-14.2 <br /> <br />