Draft Ord_Bill 324_Hoffmann_2008COM 1329 015 2006-2008

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fire department administrative offices, training facilities, fire - fighting apparatus and support vehicles, and fire-fighting equipment. "Fire1EMS system improvements" means capital improvements that result in a net expansion of the capacity of fire/EMS facilities to serve new development. Remodeling, replacement, or maintenance of existing equipment or facilities does not constitute fire/EMS system improvements, except to the extent that such improvement has the net effect of adding capacity. "Functional population" means the number of people occupying space at the site of land use on a twenty -four hour per day, seven day per week basis. "General plan" means the County of Hawaii 2005 general plan, and any revisions or amendments thereto adopted by ordinance, including any revision resulting from a comprehensive review. "Gross floor area" means the total area within the perimeter of the outside walls of a building as measured from the inside surface of the exterior walls, with no deduction for hallways, stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns, or other interior features. This is also the total of the gross horizontal area of all floors below the roof and. 1 ) Within the outer surface of the main walls of principal or accessory buildings; 2) Within the outer surface of the main walls and the centerlines of a party wall separating such buildings or portions thereof; or 3) Within lines drawn parallel to and two feet within the roof line of any building or portions thereof without walls. Gross floor area excludes unscreened residential parches or balconies, vehicle parking garages, accessory or commercial vehicular parking areas and structures, and nonresidential arcades and similar open areas that are accessible to the general public, and are not designed for or used as sales, display, storage, service or production areas. "Impact fee administrator" or "administrator" means the planning director. "Impact fee fund administrator" means an administrator appointed by the mayor as responsible for the provisions of article 3 of this chapter. "Impact fees" means the road, park, fire/EMS, police, solid waste, and wastewater impact fees. "Impact- generating development" means any land development designed or intended to permit a use of land that will increase the number of service units, including the types of developments listed in the table contained in section - 12(a). "Impact- generating development, commencement of means for the purposes of roads, parks, fire/EMS, police and solid waste impact fees, commencement occurs upon final subdivision approval for a new small lot subdivision, or upon final plan approval or obtaining a building permit for a single - family development on existing lots of record or for other types of development. For the purposes of wastewater impact fees, except for small lot subdivisions, commencement occurs upon the purchase of a water meter or, if no water meter is required, upon physical connection to the County's wastewater line serving the property. For small lot subdivisions, when connection to the County wastewater system is required, commencement occurs at final subdivision approval, or if connection to the County wastewater system is required after final subdivision approval for individual lots, commencement occurs at time of the physical connection with the County's wastewater line serving the property. "Major roadway facilities" means arterials (roads providing the highest level of service at the greatest speed for the longest uninterrupted distance, with some degree of access control) and -2-