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Murashige, Laura
From: Gladys Quinto [gquinto@lurt.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:12 PM
To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: RE: Testimony on Bills 156 and 318
Attachments: 070418 Bill No. 318 Concurrency Redraft 4 (Council 1st reading).doc
My apologies, but could you please replace the Bill 318 that I sent earlier with this one. Thanks.
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From: Gladys Quinto [mailto:gquinto@lurf.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:55 PM
To: 'counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us'
Subject: Testimony on Bills 156 and 318
Aloha,
Please find attached our testimony on the above bills. If you have any questions, please let me
know. Thank you.
Gladys
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Director of Research and Legal Affairs
Land Use Research Foundation
700 Bishop Street, #1928
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 521-4717 x14
(808) 536-0132 fax
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April i8, 200
The Honorable Pete Hoffmann, Chair and Presiding Member
County Council, County of Hawaii
z5 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96~2o BY FACSIMILE: (808) 96F-8912
Dear Council Chair Hoffman and members;
Subject: Bill No. ig6 Ordinance to Amend Chapter a (Housing), Article
I, Section a-4(d), Hawaii County Code, to Include Affordable
Housing Requirements for Industrial Park Developments
My name is Dave Arakawa, Executive Director of the Land Use Research Foundation of
Hawaii ("LURF"). LURF is a private, non-profit research and trade association whose
members include major Hawaii landowners, developers, and a utility company. One of
LURF's missions is to advocate for reasonable and rational land use planning,
legislation, and regulations affecting common problems in Hawaii.
LURF is opposed to Bill r56 because, while we understand the attempt to link
employment centers with the need for more "workforce" housing, requiring industrial or
commercial developments to build workforce housing is counter intuitive and would only
discourage investments in industrial and commercial developments, resulting in no new
job creation at all.
According to Bill r56, the Housing Element of the Hawaii County General Plan (enacted
as Ordinance No. 05-2rj) 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 a (Housing) of the Hawaii County Code.
Based on these findings, Bill F56 proposes to amend Chapter a of the Hawaii County
Code to require that industrial uses fulfill the affordable housing requirements.
Specifically, the bill proposes that "industrial enterprises generating more than one
hundred employees on a full-time equivalent basis, whether new or an addition or