2022-05-05 Windward Exh C (Item 3 County Council Initiated PL-CCI-2022-001)

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KAY: So, it's somewhat difficult to say I don't think, I know we as a department haven't gone out and done an analysis of parking facilities island wide. So, that's why the bill itself has provisions for new parking areas, existing parking areas that need to come in for Plan Approval, and then existing parking areas that don't have a requirement to come in for Plan Approval. So those parking areas at like Prince Kuhio Plaza or Target or Walmart those areas largely already have those chargers and that infrastructure in place. I'm assuming largely because of the change in law back in 2012. And so just to give you an example of a new facility or an existing facility that needs to come in for Plan Approval. Our Zoning Code says for commercial uses it's one parking stall for every 300 square feet of gross floor area within the structure. So, you're looking at that 50-parking stall trigger would be at about 15,000 square feet of gross floor area within the structure. So that kind of give you an idea of size wise. So, yeah, it's a roundabout way of saying we don't know exactly how it's going to impact, other than to say that this at least provide some guidance on what to do in those situations where it's new existing with the possibility or the kind of the catch of the trigger at Plan Approval and then for those that don't need to come in for Plan Approval. So, for instance Prince Kuhio Plaza. They've already gotten Plan Approval when they built the original mall, the existing mall. So, all that parking that was required was based on the PA that was required then. The only other time they'd have to come back in for Plan Approval would be if they were building additional structures. So, when they built the additional kind of structures, where Verizon is and Genki Sushi is and things like that,they had to come back in for Plan Approval, which then we would assess them for other stalls. In other situations where the structure is already built there's going to be no more expansion that's those situations where if there's an existing facility, but no requirement to come back in for Plan Approval that either that a lot owner would have to proactively come into compliance with the HRS or it would be done on a complaint basis. So, in terms of enforcement of the provisions of the bill that's kind of the hooks where we would apply it. LIN: Yeah, thank you Christian because my concern would be like if we implement this and there's not that many parking lots that have that requirement, you might not actually increase the availability of charging stations on the island. Like if you're down in Pahala how many places in Pahala have more than 50 to 100 parking stalls or if you're up in Kohala, Kapa`au or whatever that location is. You're not going to have that many parking stalls up there either. So, how do we think about that, when we're looking at this bill because we couldn't be looking at existing parking lots like KTA or Target or Safeway. But in smaller areas where you only have like 10 parking stalls, but you don't have any charges in that location, what do you do then. KAY: I mean so —I'm sorry go ahead. KIMBALL: I was going to say, thank you Dennis your kind of just nailed it on the head as one of the reasons why we wanted to reduce that number is because we don't have the same volume of very large parking lot as they may be doing in Honolulu. I will also say that I did reach out to Parks and Recreation before I introduced this bill to get a sense of how many areas that they 26 EXHIBIT C