2018-09-06 Hearing Transcript - Council Initiated Bill 108, Draft 4

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And, just for a little context, I think City & County of Honolulu are proposing to change their short-term vacation rental law and require, I think it was a $15,000 or $25,000 fine. So, our fees are very small in comparison. Oh, we have one more. One housekeeping measure. This is the last one. So, one of the permitted uses—one of the permitted zoning districts for short-term vacation rentals listed in the very beginning of the bill was the CDH District, the Downtown Hilo Commercial District. But, if you look through the end of the bill where they start to list each section of the Zoning Code where these are permitted, somehow the CDH District is missing. So, this is just a housekeeping measure to add short-term vacation rentals to the permitted uses section of the CDH District. And, that concludes my presentation. I just want to bring to your attention some testimony that's been received since you received your Background and Recommendation packages. This morning, you should have received an email from Lourdes Racela, an email from Brian Frederickson, and you should also have a letter dated September 4th from Airbnb, an email September Pt from Stefan Buchtaactually, you should have two emails from him, one dated September Pt at 8:24 and one at 11:34—and, then lastly, an email from Ranae dated August 31st Are there any other questions? CLARKSON: Hearing none, I think it's time to proceed to public testimony. Thank you, Maija. RAFFIPIY: Mr. Chair, can I make a motion to take a five-minute break so we can go use the restroom before we proceed into public testimony? CLARKSON: I think we want to have at least a little bit of testimony before we do that if that's, if you can hold it. RAFFIPIY: I'm going to use the bathroom, Mr. Chair. CLARKSON: We'll start getting people organized here and hopefully Commissioner Raffipiy willso, right now, everybody who wants to testify has signed up with the folks at the front desk I'm assuming. I have a list of 22 people. Everybody's going to be given three minutes to testify, and we're going to be calling up four people at a time, except for our first testifier who will be the Mayor, and everybody will take their turn. If everybody uses their three minutes, that adds up to over an hour at least of testimony, so we will be taking a break soon during the middle of testimony, but not quite yet. YEE: Chair, if—can we go back to the previous slide real quickly? I'm going to buy us some time here. JACKSON: Which one? YEE: Recommendation 15 which was on fines. I just want to comment because this came up quite often during Council hearings. I think it's, everybody understands that the fines are low. The fines structure is imbedded in the rules and procedures for the Department. There's a schedule, and that's what dictates the current fine schedule. So, a lot of times, during the EXHIBIT C 19