Report Title:

Counties Land Use and Zoning Ordinances; State Land Use Law

Description:

Separate applications for state land use reclassifications of contiguous lands owned by the same landowner shall be deemed to be one application if the separate applications are proposed because they contain different uses, are phased to be developed sequentially, or are separated to avoid the requirements of chapter 205. (HB2183 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2183

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ZONING.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to prevent circumvention of the land use approval process by prohibiting parceling or the submission of separate rezoning or reclassification applications for contiguous lands.

SECTION 2. Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§205- Projects to be reviewed as a whole. Where separate applications for any reclassification of contiguous lands owned by the same landowner are contemplated or proposed because they contain different uses, are phased to be developed sequentially, or are separated to avoid any of the requirements of this chapter, the separate applications shall be deemed to be one and shall be reviewed as one application in accordance with the requirements of this chapter."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.