Report Title:

State and County Land Use and Zoning Reclassification Law

Description:

Separate applications for reclassification of contiguous lands owned by the same landowner shall be deemed one application where the applications are separated because they contain different uses, or are phased to be developed sequentially, or are separated to avoid the requirements of chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statues.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1069

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

rELATING TO LAND USE.

 

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", 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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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