2025-09-12 PL-BOA-2025-000125 Petition Filed Via EPIC

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INSTRUCTIONS GENERAL PETITION FOR APPEAL OF DECISIONS BY PLANNING DIRECTOR OR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR Board of Appeals Rules of Practice and Procedure (RPP) can be reviewed in the Planning Department or on the following website: https://records.hawaiicounty.gov/Weblink/1/doc/34351/Pagel.aspx. For a General Petition for Appeal filed with the Board of Appeals to be considered complete, it must contain the following: 1. A filing fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) payable to the County Director of Finance [RPP Section 8-7]. 2. The original in electronic form of the following: 1. The General Petition for Appeal application form above. 2. Supplemental documents that provide the following: a. A description of the property involved in the appeal in sufficient detail for the public to precisely locate the property. b. A statement explaining the nature of the appeal and the relief requested. c. A statement explaining: i. How the decision appealed from violates the law; or ii. How the decision appealed from is clearly erroneous; or iii. How the decision appealed from was arbitrary or capricious, or characterized by an abuse of discretion or clearly unwarranted exercise of discretion. d. A clear and concise statement of any other relevant facts. 3. A copy of the Director's decision letter that is being appealed. Note that the Board of Appeals is a separate entity from the Planning Director and Director of Public Works. Pursuant to RPP Section 8-8, you are required to serve a copy of the petition to the Director of the decision being appealed, and to all landowners of the affected property if the landowners are not the Appellants. For questions, please email boardofappeals@hawaiicounty.gov. You may submit the completed petition as a PDF document at the on-line Electronic Processing & Information Center (EPIC). \\COH01\planning\public\BOA\Forms and Labels\Application Forms\APPEAL 2021-07-PL or PW Dir.docx Revised April 2021