Aloha and good morning, everyone.

It is Thursday, June 25th, 2026.

And the time is now 9.02 a.m.

Will the committee on zoning and planning please come to order.

I would like to welcome the following committee members.

Councilmember Cordero, Councilmember Okimoto, and Councilmember Tupola.

And entering the chamber now is uh Vice Chair Waters.

Although remote verbal testimony is being permitted, this is a regular in-person meeting and not a remote meeting by interactive conference technology under HRS section 92-3.7.

Therefore, the meeting will continue notwithstanding loss of audio visual communication with remote testifiers or loss of the public broadcast of the meeting.

Members of the public will be allowed to provide verbal testimony on all items on the agenda when each item is taken up in two ways.

In person in the council chamber and remotely via video conference or phone.

Before testifying, each person shall state their name for the record.

Each speaker may not have anyone else read their statement and would be limited to a one minute presentation per item.

Or persons who register to testify in person will be called upon first.

Persons who did not register will be given an opportunity to offer testimony after the registered testifiers.

Once in-person testimony is concluded, I would proceed to the remote testifiers.

When I call your name or the last three digits of your phone number, please follow the prompts to unmute.

As both English and Hawaiian are official languages of the state of Hawaii, pursuant to Article 15, Section 4 of the Hawaii State Constitution and Section 1313 of the Hawaii revised statutes.

Members of the public may testify in either language for verbal testimonies offered in Olelo, Hawaii.

Additional time as may be necessary will be allowed for the testifier to provide an English translation of their testimony.

Written testimonies, including the testifier's address, email address, and phone number, will be available to the public as described in the posted agenda.

As a courtesy, please turn off or silence all cell phones for the duration of this meeting.

Thank you.

For moving to agenda item number one for action, resolution 26-140.

This resolution accepts a gift to the city of travel and related expenses valued at $659.60 from the Hawaii County Planning Department for three Department of Planning and Permitting Branch Chiefs to attend the regional planning focus group in Hilo, Hawaii, which was held on June 10th, 2026.

The purpose of the focus group was to share practical experiences regarding long range and regional planning.

We have posted on the agenda a technical CD1 version of the resolution, which I submitted for your information.

A summary of the amendments is listed on the agenda.

Before I call up the administration, I would like to take public testimony.

Proceeding first with in-person testimony.

Clerks, do we have any in-person testifiers?

Chair, there are none.

Is there anyone else in the council chamber who would like to testify?

Seeing none, please uh proceeding with remote testimony.

Clerks, do we have any remote testifiers for this item?

Chair, there are none.

And if anyone is standing by online, please raise your hand.

Seeing none uh for the administration, we have Don Takiu Chapuna, Director of the Department of Planning and Permitting.

Good morning, Chair, members of the committee.

We are supportive of this resolution.

Thank you.

Members, do we have any questions?

If not, the chair recommends that resolution 26-140 be amended to the post it CD1.

Any discussion, any objections or reservations, hearing none, the resolution has been amended to a CD1.

The chair then recommends that resolution 26-140 CD1 be reported out for adoption.

Any discussion, any objections or reservations, hearing none so ordered.

Moving to agenda item number two for action, resolution 26-150.

This resolution directed the director of the Department of Planning and Permitting to process a council initiated amendment to the land use ordinance, ROH chapter 21 relating to large attached dwellings.

Amendments to the land use ordinance proposed by the council are processed by the Department of Planning and Permitting and reviewed by the Planning Commission.

The department's report and commission's recommendations are then transmitted to the council for action on the proposal.

I would now defer to the introducer of the resolution, Vice Chair Waters, for the explanation.

I introduce this measure because the size and bulk of large detached dwellings continue to be of concern in the residential neighborhoods, especially in my district.

The floor area of garages and carports are not included when calculating a dwellings floor area ratio.

The measure amends the land use ordinance provisions that applies to large detached dwellings, which are dwellings with a floor error ratio of more than 0.6, but capped at 0.7 to provide the parking areas up to a maximum of 400 square feet for each unit may be excluded from the floor area.

And the remaining parking areas are included as a floor area.

This measure applies only to the density calculated for large detached dwellings, as all other floor area calculations stay the same, including the calculation of floor area to determine parking requirements under the LUO Article 6.

In a nutshell, this is based on uh growth of monster homes in Kaimu Key and now extending all over the island, where outside investors come in, knock down perfectly good houses, and put up these monster homes, oftentimes renting them out to uh adults uh unrelated to each other, taking up parking all over the place, and especially in my district where parking is really street parking is really a premium.

Um it causes all kinds of havoc.

And this is trying to close a loophole that uh developers have been using.

So again, this is really a monster homes bill.