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Honorable Pete Hoffinann
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and Members of the County Council
COUNTY COUNCIL
333 Kilauea Avenue, Second Floor
Hilo, HI 96720
Dear Chair Hoffrnann and Members of the County Council:
SUBJECT: BILL 82 - ELWIN F. HUSSEY
TAX MAP KEY: 5-9-007:007
I want to inform the Council that I mis-spoke to some extent on the subject of applying
the new affordable housing standards of Chapter l 1, as amended February 2005, to
zoning that needs a time extension. I had said that we have placed an affordable housing
condition on time extensions since February 2005. Actually, the only situation that has
previously occurred involving a new affordable housing condition is a bit different.
Waikoloa Mauka had a zoning condition that had a required them to comply with Chapter
11, but they would not actually have had to provide affordable housing because the
zoning involved one-acre lots, and the county at that time did not have an affordable
housing requirement for one-acre lots. This was changed in the February 2005
amendments. When the time extension came in for Waikoloa Mauka, we made it clear
that the new Chapter 11 requirements would now apply, which do create an affordable
housing requirement.
This is a bit different than what we recommended in the time extension for the subject
rezoning. The original zoning did not have an affordable housing condition at all,
because affordable housing was not required for three-acre lots, but we are
recommending that it be added to the time extension.
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Hawaii County is an Equa! Opportunity Provider and Employer.
Honorable Pete Hoffinann
Chair and Presiding Officer
and Members of the County Council
COUNTY COUNCIL
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June 4, 2007
I do believe that adding in the affordable housing condition should be a standard practice
and requirement when an applicant needs a time extension on the zoning ordinance. One
of the reasons to have time conditions in the first place is to be able to review the zoning
after some time has passed and the applicant has not finished the development of the
property. It is a time when we can make sure that the applicant fulfills the same
standards and expectations that we have of a new applicant. I do not believe that we have
missed any time extensions since February 2005 when we should have added in the
affordable housing condition. Most time extensions involve zoning that already had an
affordable housing condition.
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CHRISTOPHER J.
Planning Director
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Ms. Susan Wells Fischer