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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: October 17, 2000 Re: C-734/Bill No. 240 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 2:09 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 240, transmitted by Council Member J. Curtis Tyler III per Communication No. 734, dated April 4, 2000, regarding an amendment to bed and breakfast establishments, reports as follows: Bill No. 240, amends Section 25-4-7 of Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition) relating to Bed and Breakfast establishments. Committee Member Tyler initiated the amendments to the code, and pursuant to the Hawaii County Code, Bill No. 240 was referred to Your Committee on April 18, 2000, then referred to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission then amended the original draft to Bill No. 240, Draft 2, by further amending Sections 25-1-5, 25-2-73 and Section 25-4-7, and transmitted it back to Your Committee on September 29, 2000, via Communication No. 734.004. The original draft included some minor grammatical changes and eliminated the plan approval requirements. The Planning Commission, on September I5, 2000, recommended a favorable consideration for Bill No. 240, Draft 2, which included the following amendments: I . "To allow a bed and breakfast establishment within two (2) dwellings and a guest house on a building site. This is clarified in that a bed and breakfast establishment may he located within a single family dwelling, second dwelling unit, and/or guest house. A second dwelling unit is a separate or attached unit and may include an ohana dwelling. It is further clarified that a guest house is defined and restricted in accordance with the Zoning Code as follows: a) Section 25-1-5(b)(55~`Guest house means an accessory building used as sleeping quarters for guests by the occupants of the main dwelling and having no cooking facilities.' b) Section 25-4-9. Guest houses. `One guest house may only be established on a building site that is at least seven thousand five hundred square feet in area. A guest house shall not exceed five hundred square feet in gross floor area, shall not be more than twenty feet in height, and shall not have a kitchen.' Therefore to clarify further, the variations for a bed and breakfast establishment could be: within the operator's dwelling, one additional dwelling and a guest house; within two permitted dwellings and a guest house; within a duplex dwelling and a guest house; within the operator's dwelling and a guest house; within the second dwelling and a guest house; within only the operator's dwelling; within only the second dwelling unit; or within only the guest house. PC-119