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

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amendments to Chapter 25 the section further requires electric vehicle chargers to be maintained in good working order and that a dedicated parking space with appropriate marking and signage that indicates that"Parking is only for electric vehicles that are actively charging"must be provided for all electric vehicle chargers. Furthermore, this section of the proposed bill clarifies that designated electric vehicle parking spaces shall not displace or reduce ADA accessible parking stalls. This section requires every parking facility meeting the size criteria to comply with requirements of the section, regardless of ownership except as allowed for in the alternatives and exemptions section of the proposed bill. And finally, the section allows site owners to charge a reasonable fee for the use of the charging station. Additional proposed amendments are as follows, there is this Section 25-4-54.2. Which speaks to Alternatives and Exemptions from these requirements parking for electric vehicles, electric vehicle charging systems provides the Planning Director the authority to determine that electric vehicle charging requirements can be satisfied by a smaller number of direct current fast chargers, so long as the overall charging capacity at the place of public accommodation is equal to or greater than the capacity required under Section 25-4-54.1. Additionally,places of public accommodation can be exempted from applicable requirements of Section 25-4-54.1 should the location not have established electrical service or adequate electrical infrastructure to provide sufficient current for EV charger implementation, or if the location is identified as being in the highest flood risk zone, as established by the Federal Emergency Management Agencies (FEMA) digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) or the FIRM maps. So, the Director is recommending that the Planning Commission send a favorable recommendation of Bill 120 to the County Council with the following recommended revisions. So, in the recommendation that we sent we included a set of twelve (12)proposed revisions. You should have also received around the same time, a communication from Councilmember Kimball dated April 29, 2022. And this was a set of suggested amendments and discussion points for the Planning Commissions, and this largely came out of a conversation that Councilmember Kimball and I had around the proposed bill, and some of our concerns or suggested changes or improvements that she graciously went ahead and made some proposed changes to. So, as I get into our 12 proposed changes, some of them were already addressed by Director [Councilmember] Kimball's document that she supplied to us. So, I will mark our 12 proposed changes, where her proposed amendments kind of address our concerns and come into alignment. And then, when we get into the discussion and voting stage, we can go over those in greater detail. So those are as follows: Recommendation 91 from the Director is under Section 1. Purpose. We suggest to correct the reference to the HRS section from 291-71 to 291-73. The reason for this is it is HRS 291-73 that allows Counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the requirements of 291-71. Our second recommendation is under Section 24-245.6. Penalties. Again, this is to the roads and traffic's section of Code is to correct the reference to section 291-71 and delete the close quote at the end of the word"statutes" at the end of the sentence. The reason for that is the bill incorrectly references HRS section 291-71, which does not make mentioned to any fine 4 EXHIBIT C