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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 156 Draft 05 2004-2006 tv w COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII ~1~0l~M~~ BILL NO. 156 (Draft 5) ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 11 (HOUSING), ARTICLE 1, SECTION 11-4(D), HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION), TO INCLUDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS FOR INDUSTRIAL PARK DEVELOPMENTS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. The Housing Element of the Hawaii County General Plan (enacted as Ordinance No. 05-25) clearly states that a policy of the County of Hawaii shall be that "large industries or developments that create a demand for housing shall provide employee housing based upon a ratio to be determined by an analysis of the locality's needs." The County Council finds that industrial developments which are comprised of multiple individual enterprises are, in fact, large industries which generate substantial employment and demands for employee housing. Therefore, such industrial developments should be subject to the affordable housing requirements articulated in chapter 11 (Housing) of the Hawaii County Code. SECTION 2. Chapter 11, article 1, section 11-4(d), Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), relating to affordable housing requirements for industrial uses, is amended to read as follows: "(d) Requirements for industrial uses. The industrial uses that must fulfill the affordable housing requirements are any uses allowed as of right in an ML or MG district, except for home improvement centers, and any uses that are also allowed as of right in a CG district. Credits Required. Individual industrial enterprises generating more than one hundred employees on a full-time equivalent basis must earn one affordable housing credit for every four full-time equivalent jobs created. Rezonings to ML, MG, or MCX, approved after (the effective date of this ordinance) with a potential to senerate more than one hundred employees on a full-time equivalent basis must earn one affordable housine credit for every four full-time equivalent fobs created. At the time of rezoniny, the potential iob veneration shall be assumed to be ten full-time equivalent iobs per acre to determine whether subsequent development within the rezoned area must satisfy an affordable housiny requirement. ii At the time of plan approval, pursuant to section 11-9(b), the affordable housiny requirement shall be based upon ten full-time equivalent iobs per acre, or one per 1,000 square feet of yross floor azea, whichever is yreater, provided that the administrator, after consultation with the planniny director, shall adiust the number of iobs based on proof that the actual number of iobs created will deviate from this standazd, and provided that in that case, the affordable housiny requirement shall be reassessed if the use is chanyed. iii The applicant may also satisfy the affordable housiny requirement at the time of final subdivision approval for all or a portion of the lots created within the rezoned azea, provided that in that case, the applicant shall be required to earn one affordable housiny credit for every ten full- time equivalent iobs created, based on ten full-time equivalent iobs per acre. iv When an applicant presents its plan for satisfvinv an affordable housing requirement, it shall have an opportunity to demonstrate that current economic and housiny conditions in the reyion surroundiny its development do not warrant the imposition of the above- stated yeneralized requirements. The County housiny ayency shall consider such conditions in determininy whether lesser requirements aze warranted because of a lower demand created by that particulaz development or because of sufficient supply in the area. The County housiny ayencv shall also take into account the extent to which the imposition of these requirements on private industrial developments and not upon exempted State industrial lands that may create an unequal competitive situation for new development." SECTION 3. Upon passage of this ordinance, the Revisor of Ordinances shall insert in section 11-4(d)(2)(B), the effective calendar date of this ordinance in place of the phrase "(the effective date of this ordinance)." 2 SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declazed to be severable. SECTION 5. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the underscoring need not be included. SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect on its approval. INTRODUCED BY: r~/~ 1 CO L MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII Hawaii Date of Introduction: Date of ls` Reading: Date of 2nd Reading: Effective Date: iZEFER=tvCi: Comm. 200.30 3