Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 15 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM › Hawaii Community Development Authority › Chapter 217 - MAUKA AREA RULES › Subchapter 1 - PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY › Section 15-217-8 - Definition of terms

Current through June, 2024
This section provides definitions for terms in these rules
					 that are technical in nature or that otherwise may not reflect a common usage
					 of the term. If a term is not defined in this section, then the executive
					 director shall determine the correct definition through the interpretation
					 provisions of section
					 15-217-5 (rules of
					 interpretation).
"Accessory building" means a building that is located on
					 the same property, but physically separated from the principal building and is
					 subordinate in size to the principal building, which may include swimming pool
					 house, recreational facilities, and gazebos;
"Accessory dwelling" means a self-contained residential
					 unit located on the same property as a front yard house, side yard house, or
					 duplex-triplex-quadplex, which is either attached to the principal building or
					 in a separate structure;
"Administrative" is a use classification for uses
					 pertaining to the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry,
					 government, or like activity, which may include ancillary services for office
					 workers, such as a restaurant, coffee shop, or newspaper or candy stand;
"Alcohol sales" is a use classification pertaining to the
					 sale of alcoholic beverages, whether for on-site or off-site
					 consumption;
"Allee" means an evenly spaced and aligned double row of
					 trees usually planted along a thoroughfare;
"Alley" means a service lane located to the rear of lots
					 providing access to service areas, parking, and outbuildings and containing
					 utility easements;
"Alternative parking access street" means a street from
					 which parking, driveways, curb cuts and other vehicular intrusions into the
					 pedestrian realm should be allowed only when access to a parking access street
					 is not possible. See Figure 1.10 (parking), dated September 2011, made a part
					 of this chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Architectural encroachment" means an architectural
					 feature that breaks the plane of a vertical or horizontal regulatory limit,
					 extending into a setback, into the pedestrian zone, or above a height
					 limit;
"Artisan or craft production" is a use classification for
					 the manufacturing and assembling of small products primarily by hand, including
					 but not limited to clothing, furniture, jewelry, pottery and other ceramics,
					 small glass and metal art, taxidermists and craft products;
"Attic" means a portion of a building wholly or partly in
					 the roof, so designated, arranged or built to be used for business, storage,
					 recreation or habitation. Attic areas with a head room of less than seven feet
					 shall not be included as floor area;
"Authority" means the Hawaii community development
					 authority established by section
					 206E-3,
					 HRS;
"Automobile rentals or sales" is a use classification
					 primarily engaged in the rental, leasing or sales of new and used automobiles,
					 trucks, trailers, motorcycles, mopeds, and recreation vehicles and supplies,
					 including storage of said vehicles;
"Automobile repair" is a use classification for the repair
					 and maintenance services for motorcycles, passenger vehicles and trucks of all
					 sizes. Typical repair and maintenance activities pertain to the tire, body,
					 auto glass, radiator, transmission, motor tune-up, vehicle upholstery, and
					 mufflers;
"Avenue" means a walkable, low-to-medium (thirty to
					 thirty-five mph) urban arterial or collector thoroughfare, generally shorter in
					 length than boulevards, serving access to abutting land. Avenues serve as
					 primary pedestrian and bicycle routes and may serve local transit routes.
					 Avenues usually provide curb parking;
"Awning" means a canopy that is supported entirely from
					 the exterior wall of a building;
"Block" means the aggregate of lots, passageways, public
					 spaces," and alleys bounded on all sides by thoroughfares;
"Block face" means the aggregate of the building facades
					 on all of the lots on any given block;
"Block size" means the size of a block as measured in
					 linear feet around the edges of the block at the lot line;
"Boulevard" means a means a walkable, low-speed
					 {thirty-five mph or less) divided arterial thoroughfare designed to carry both
					 through and local traffic, pedestrians and bicycles. Boulevards may be high
					 ridership transit corridors. Curb parking may be allowed on boulevards;
"Build to line" means a setback, parallel to the frontage
					 line, which marks the location from which the principle vertical plane of the
					 elevation must be erected. The build to line dimension is the distance from the
					 lot line to the build to line;
"Building" means any permanently anchored structure used
					 or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy;
"Building face" means the building elevation closest to
					 and facing the abutting thoroughfare;
"Building type" means a form based classification that
					 describes a particular type of building in terms of scale and design. See
					 Figures BT.1 to BT.10, dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and
					 attached at the end of this chapter;
"Building void" means the negative space that is created
					 between the potential building envelope and the actual building, when upper
					 floors of a building are set back from the maximum possible floor plate size to
					 add depth and articulation. The building void is the difference between one
					 hundred per cent and the floor plate ratio provided for each story as indicated
					 on each of the building type pages. See Figure 1.12-C (illustrative building
					 void and floor plate diagrams), dated September 2011, made a part of this
					 chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Civic" is a use classification which includes uses that
					 foster community interaction and citizen participation in civic activities such
					 as: meeting halls or clubhouse, conference centers, cultural facilities, public
					 safety facilities, public or government facilities, libraries, religious
					 facilities, and theaters;
"Civic building" means a building primarily used for civic
					 or public uses;
"Civic space" means a form based classification of outdoor
					 areas dedicated for public use. See Figure 1.11 (civic space), dated September
					 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this
					 chapter;
"Commercial" means the term collectively defining
					 workplace, office, and retail functions;
"Common open space" means a portion of the lot landscaped
					 and utilized for passive or active recreation but excluding permanent
					 buildings, off-street parking areas, drive aisles, above-ground utility
					 cabinet, boxes or structures and required side and rear setback area;
"Conference center" is a use classification for facilities
					 designed to host conferences, exhibitions, large meetings, seminars, and
					 training sessions;
"Cultural facilities" is a use classification for
					 establishments such as museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological
					 gardens, and other facilities of an historic, an educational, or a cultural
					 interest;
"Curb" means the edge of the vehicular pavement that may
					 be raised or flush to as wale and is usually incorporated into the drainage
					 system;
"Dance-nightclub" is a use classification pertaining
					 establishments primarily engaged in the preparation and sale of alcoholic
					 beverages for consumption on the premises in conjunction with a dance floor
					 accompanied by prerecorded or live music;
"Day-care center" is a use classification pertaining to
					 non-medical care for fifteen or more children or adults in need of personal
					 services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of
					 daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a
					 twenty-four-hour basis. May include pre-schools, infant centers, and extended
					 day-care facilities;
"Day-care home" is a use classification pertaining to
					 single-family residences that are occupied and used as such in addition to
					 providing non-medical day-care on less than a twenty-four-hour basis to
					 children or adults;
"Decision-maker" means the person or entity charged with
					 reviewing a particular permit or development application;
"Developable area" means the area within the lot lines of
					 a parcel or a series of parcels, excluding setback areas;
"Developer" means a private person or an entity who has
					 legal rights to perform or cause to be performed any man-made change over,
					 upon, under, or across improved or unimproved real property within the mauka
					 area;
"Developer's proposal to develop lands under the
					 authority's control" as used in section
					 206E-5.6,
					 HRS, shall mean and include any permit application filed by any private person
					 or entity seeking the authority's approval for (1) a development; or (2) an
					 improvement project on lands owned by the authority;
"Development" means and includes any man-made change over,
					 upon, under, or across improved or unimproved real property performed on a lot
					 greater than 20,000 square feet within the mauka area. Development shall not
					 include a project consisting of a change in use or interior renovations
					 only;
"Development permit" means and includes a permit approved
					 and issued by the authority authorizing any development;
"Disposition" means the placement of a building on its
					 lot;
"Drive-through" means an establishment that permits
					 customers to receive services, to obtain goods, or to be entertained while
					 remaining in their motor vehicles;
"Driveway" means a vehicular lane within a lot, often
					 leading to a garage;
"Dwelling" means one or more rooms providing complete
					 living facilities for one family, including kitchen facilities or equipment for
					 cooking, and including a room or multiple rooms for living, sleeping, bathing,
					 and eating;
"Educational facilities" is a use classification
					 pertaining to instruction or education, such as kindergarten; elementary,
					 middle, or junior high school; high school; college; universities; or
					 vocational schools;
"Eleemosynary organization" means a society, association,
					 or corporation engaged in religious, charitable, educational, scientific,
					 literary, or other benevolent purposes, whose charter or other enabling act
					 contains a provision that, in the event of dissolution, the land owned by such
					 society, association, or corporation shall be distributed to another society,
					 association, or corporation engaged in religious, charitable, educational,
					 scientific, literary or other benevolent purposes;
"Elevation" means an exterior wall of a building not along
					 a frontage line;
"Encroachment" means any structural or architectural
					 element that breaks the plane of a vertical or horizontal regulatory limit,
					 extending into a setback, into the pedestrian zone, or above a height
					 limit;
"Enfront" means to place an element along a
					 frontage;
"Exceptional tree" means a tree that by reason of age,
					 rarity, location, size, aesthetic quality, endemic status or historical and
					 cultural significance is designated by the county arborist committee as worthy
					 of preservation, pursuant to Act 105, SLH 1975, and the city and county of
					 Honolulu exceptional tree ordinance. See the revised ordinances of Honolulu,
					 chapter
					 41, article 13 - protective
					 regulations for exceptional trees including the register of exceptional
					 trees;
"Executive director" means the executive director of the
					 Hawaii community development authority;
"Facade" means the exterior wall of a building that is set
					 along a frontage line;
"Facade string" means a row of facades along a street that
					 are physically attached to each other;
"FEMA flood maps" means maps that set flood insurance
					 rates, regulate floodplain development, and delineate "100-year" floodplain
					 boundaries. FEMA flood maps contain flood zones that describe different levels
					 of flood risk and elevation;
"Flat" means a dwelling that is confined to a single
					 story;
"Floor area" means the sum of the gross horizontal areas
					 of all floors of a building, including interior balconies and mezzanines,
					 measured from the exterior face of exterior walls or from the centerline of a
					 wall separating two structures. Floor area shall include the area of roofed
					 porches or lanai having more than one wall and of accessory structures on the
					 same lot. Stairwells, elevator shafts parking facilities and loading spaces,
					 including their driveways, shall be excluded;
"Floor area ratio" or "FAR" means the ratio of the total
					 building floor area as expressed in square feet to the total land area as
					 expressed in square feet. The FAR is determined by dividing the total floor
					 area on a development lot by the lot area of that development lot;
"Floor area ratio transfer credit" means a unit of
					 measurement integral to section
					 15-217-84 (floor area ratio
					 transfer) and which is established on a one-to-one basis between sending
					 site(s) and a receiving site;
"Frontage" means the area between a building elevation and
					 the vehicular lanes, inclusive of its built and planted components. Frontage is
					 divided into two components: private frontage and public frontage;
"Frontage line" means a lot line bordering the public
					 frontage. See Figure 1.14 (pedestrian zone treatment), dated September 2011,
					 made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Frontage occupancy" means the minimum length of the
					 principal frontage that must contain a building street front element. See
					 Figure 1.13 (building placement and encroachments), dated September 2011, made
					 a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Frontage type" means a form based classification that
					 describes a particular type of building face in terms of scale and
					 architectural features. Frontage types facilitate pedestrian access to the
					 principal entrance of a building. See Figures FT.1 to FT.12, dated September
					 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this
					 chapter;
"Furnishing area" means the transition between the
					 pedestrian throughway and the edge of the vehicular pavement. The furnishing
					 area provides space for roadside appurtenances such as street trees, planting
					 strips, street furniture, public art, sidewalk cafes, sign poles, signal and
					 electrical cabinets, fire hydrants, bicycle racks and bus shelters. See Figure
					 1.14-A (section view illustrative pedestrian zone treatment), dated September
					 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this
					 chapter;
"Gas station" is a use classification pertaining to the
					 retail sale of motor vehicle fuel and lubricants to the public by direct
					 delivery into the user's vehicle and may include incidental motor vehicular
					 services such as tire repair, battery charging, brake adjustment, motor tune-up
					 and washing. Sale of food, beverages and related items is permitted in
					 conjunction with a gas station;
"Grade" means the slope of a road, street, or other public
					 way specified in percentage terms;
"Ground elevation" means the highest finished grade along
					 the perimeter of the building;
"Group assembly" is a use classification for the gathering
					 of people for activities including a music festival, carnival, show, circus,
					 dance, exhibition, lecture, concert, rally, party, celebration, or similar
					 activity which is open to the public or to which members of the public are
					 invited or admitted either for a charge or free of cost;
"Group home" is a use classification pertaining to the use
					 of any single-family residence or dwelling unit for a group residence where
					 residents pay a fee or other consideration to the group home operator in return
					 for residential accommodations. A group home includes a boarding home, a
					 rooming house, as well as a group residence for the elderly, or mentally or
					 physically disabled or handicapped persons, or other persons in need of care
					 and supervision;
"Guideline" means a development provision that is
					 suggested to further the intent and the mauka area plan and rules, but that is
					 not compulsory;
"Habitable space" means space in a structure for living,
					 sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, closets, halls, storage areas and
					 utility spaces are not considered habitable spaces;
"Hawaii capital district" means a special district
					 established by article 7 of the land use ordinance;
"Hawaii revised statutes" or "HRS" means the Hawaii
					 Revised Statutes;
"Heavy industrial" is a use classification for industrial
					 plants primarily engaged in manufacturing, compounding, processing, assembling,
					 packaging, treatment, or fabrication of materials and products, primarily from
					 extracted or raw or recycled materials. Uses in this classification generally
					 are characterized by, among other things, truck traffic or outdoor storage of
					 products, materials, equipment or fuel. Typical uses include battery
					 manufacturing, welding, water softening plants, plating, ready-mix concrete
					 plants, trucking terminals, and distribution facilities for commercial package
					 services;
"Historical or culturally significant property" means any
					 property that is:
(1) Listed on the
				  Hawaii or national register of historic places, pursuant to HRS; or
(2) Designated in the mauka area plan as
				  being significant in the history or prehistory, architecture, culture, or
				  development of Kakaako or a tangible, historic or cultural linkage between
				  Kakaako of the past and Kakaako of the present;
"Home occupation" is a use classification for work-related
					 activities carried out in a dwelling unit for monetary gain by a resident. Home
					 occupation is considered an accessory use in the resident's dwelling
					 unit;
"Hospital" is a use classification pertaining to
					 institutions providing health services, primarily for inpatients and medical or
					 surgical care of the sick or injured, including related facilities as
					 laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities, central service
					 facilities, and staff offices;
"Hydraulic lifts" means a parking method wherein
					 mechanized lifts are used to lift one car above the ground so that another car
					 can park underneath. May include robotic parking;
"Improvement permit" means and includes a permit approved
					 and issued by the executive director authorizing any improvement
					 project;
"Improvement project" means and includes any man-made
					 change over, upon, under, or across improved or unimproved real property
					 performed on a lot of 20,000 square feet or less within the mauka area;
"Indoor recreation" is a use classification pertaining to
					 participant sports conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include
					 bowling alleys, billiard parlors, pool halls, indoor ice or roller skating
					 rinks, indoor racquetball courts, indoor batting cages, and health or fitness
					 clubs;
"Kakaako community development district plan" means a
					 collective term for the "Mauka Area Plan" and the "Makai Area Plan." Also,
					 referred to as the "Kakaako Community Development Plan" or "Kakaako
					 Plan";
"Kakaako special design district ordinance" means
					 Ordinance No. 80-58 of the city and county of Honolulu, as amended by Ordinance
					 No. 81-8;
"Lanai" means an accessory area to a dwelling, with one or
					 more sides permanently open to the exterior except for a railing or parapet not
					 exceeding four feet in height, with such open side or sides constituting at
					 least twenty-five per cent of the perimeter thereof. Lanai are accessible
					 solely from the dwelling to which it is appurtenant and may either be recessed
					 elements with a roof continuous with the building roof, or they may be
					 protruding elements added on to the face of a building;
"Land use" means a designation of land with approved uses
					 that can legally operate on the parcel;
"Land use ordinance" or "LUO" means the land use ordinance
					 adopted by Ordinance No. 86-96 of the city and county of Honolulu;
"Large lot" means a parcel or collection of parcels
					 (developable area) equal to or greater than 140,000 square feet;
"Leadership in energy and environmental design" or "LEED"
					 means a green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building
					 Council that provides a suite of standards for the environmentally sustainable
					 design, construction and operation of buildings and neighborhoods;
"Light industrial" is a use classification pertaining to
					 manufacturing, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished
					 products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and
					 packaging of such products and incidental storage and distribution of such
					 products or parts, but excluding basic industrial processing classified under
					 the heavy industrial. Typical uses include apparel manufacturing, machine
					 shops, and furniture manufacturing;
"Liner building" means a building which masks or conceals
					 a parking lot or a parking structure from a frontage;
"Live-work" means a mixed-use unit consisting of an
					 office, or retail uses along with residential use. The residential function may
					 be anywhere in the unit and is intended to be occupied by a business operator
					 who lives in the same structure that contains the retail activity;
"Long-term bicycle parking" means a place to secure
					 bicycles for eight to twenty four hours. Long-term bicycle parking can be
					 provided through bicycle lockers, bicycle racks in enclosed areas, or space
					 within a building;
"Lot" means a duly recorded parcel of land which can be
					 used, developed or built upon as a unit;
"Lot line" means the boundary of a parcel of land, often
					 expressed in metes and bounds;
"Lot width" means the length of the principal frontage
					 line of a lot;
"Makai area" means that portion of the Kakaako community
					 development district, established by section
					 206E-32,
					 HRS, excluding the mauka area which is bounded by King Street; Piikoi Street
					 from its intersection with King Street to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana
					 Boulevard, exclusive, from Piikoi Street to its intersection with Punchbowl
					 Street; and Punchbowl Street to its intersection with King Street;
"Makai area plan" means the development plan for the makai
					 area of the Kakaako community development district adopted on September 29,
					 1998, as amended on November 27, 2002 and October 25, 2005;
"Mauka area" means that portion of the Kakaako community
					 development district, established by section
					 206E-32,
					 HRS, which is bounded by King Street; Piikoi Street from its intersection with
					 King Street to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana Boulevard, exclusive, from Piikoi
					 Street to its intersection with Punchbowl Street; and Punchbowl Street to its
					 intersection with King Street;
"Mauka area plan" means the development plan for the mauka
					 area of the Kakaako community development district originally adopted on
					 February 16, 1982, as amended on January 10, 19 83, May 18, 1984, September 6,
					 1984, April 26, 1985, August 17, 1985, July 15, 1988, June 28, 1989, January
					 18, 1990, July 16, 1990, September 5, 1997, August 3, 1999, June 1, 2005 and
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;
"Mauka-makai" means the general orientation of mountains
					 (mauka) to the ocean (makai);
"Mauka-makai axis" means the angle or orientation of the
					 nearest of one of the following mauka-makai thoroughfares: Punchbowl, South,
					 Cooke, Ward, or Piikoi. The mauka-makai axis is parallel to the nearest
					 designated mauka-makai thoroughfare. In the case that the tower lies exactly in
					 between two mauka-makai thoroughfares, the relevant mauka-makai axis shall be
					 chosen by measuring from the closest point of that tower to each
					 thoroughfare;
"Mauka-makai zone" means an area that is defined by planes
					 extended from the edges of a tower along its mauka-makai axis (see Figure 1.6B
					 (view preservation), dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and
					 attached at the end of this chapter);
"Maximum floor plate ratio" means the proportion of each
					 floor that can occupy the total buildable floor area;
"Media production" is a use classification pertaining to
					 areas for motion pictures, television, video, sound, computer, and other
					 communications media production. These facilities include the following
					 types:
(1) Back lots or outdoor
				  facilities. Outdoor sets, back lots, and other outdoor facilities, including
				  supporting indoor workshops and craft shops;
(2) Indoor support facilities. Administrative
				  and technical production support facilities, including administrative and
				  production offices, post-production facilities (editing and sound recording
				  studios, foley stages, etc.), optical and special effects units, film
				  processing laboratories, etc.; and
(3) Soundstages. May also include buildings
				  providing space for the construction and use of indoor sets, including
				  supporting workshops and craft shops;
"Medical or dental clinic" is a use classification
					 pertaining to a facility that contains one or more physicians or dentists,
					 their assistants, and a laboratory or an apothecary limited to the sale of
					 pharmaceutical and medical supplies. Shall not include inpatient care or major
					 surgery;
"Mixed-use" means a combination of more than one use
					 within a development project or lot;
"Multi-family" is a use classification pertaining to a
					 building or buildings containing more than one dwelling and which may have
					 joint services or facilities;
"Net site area" means all developable land within a
					 project site including thoroughfares but excluding land allocated as civic
					 zones;
"New building" means and includes the construction of a
					 building including structural supports, walls and a roof;
"Nonconforming structure" means a building or structure
					 that was lawfully erected prior to the effective date of the adoption or
					 amendment of this chapter but no longer complies with all the regulations
					 applicable to the mauka area as a result of adoption or amendment of this
					 chapter or government action associated with eminent domain;
"Nonconforming use" means an activity using land,
					 buildings or structures for purposes which were legally established prior to
					 the effective date of the adoption or amendment of this chapter, but would not
					 be permitted as a new use in any of the neighborhood zones established by this
					 chapter;
"Outdoor recreation" is a use classification for
					 recreational facilities operated for monetary profit or on a nonprofit basis
					 and which typically include swimming pools, wading pools, tennis courts,
					 badminton courts, basketball courts, baseball and soccer fields, play areas,
					 and clubhouse;
"Park and recreation" means a land use classification
					 under civic uses pertaining to parks and recreational facilities, including
					 gymnasiums, playing fields, playgrounds, fountains, and swimming pools;
"Parking access street" means a street from which access
					 to parking, driveways, curb cuts and other vehicular intrusions into the
					 pedestrian realm should be located. See Figure 1.10-B (parking placement
					 diagram), dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at
					 the end of this chapter;
"Parking facility" is a use classification for off-street
					 parking spaces for motor vehicles within or outside of a structure by either a
					 private or public entity;
"Parking structure" means a building containing one or
					 more stories of parking above grade;
"Parking zone" means the area within a block where parking
					 is allowed. See Figure 1.10-B (parking placement diagram), dated September
					 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this
					 chapter;
"Passageway" means a pedestrian pathway, open or roofed,
					 that serves as an extension of the sidewalk as it passes from the frontage line
					 onto private property, often between or through buildings, to courtyards,
					 parking areas or civic spaces. Passageways shall be no less than fifteen feet
					 wide. If passageways are covered, they require a floor to ceiling height of at
					 least two times their width, but no greater than three times their
					 width;
"Passenger terminal" is a use classification pertaining to
					 the provision of transportation of persons and goods. Typical uses include
					 stations, depots, yards, dispatch centers or other facilities for bus services,
					 train services or taxi services but exclude trucking terminals or moving and
					 storage firms;
"Path" means a pedestrian way traversing a park, with
					 landscape matching the contiguous open space;
"Pedestrian throughway" means the clear area for the
					 pedestrian walkway area between the furnishing and private frontage areas. The
					 throughway must provide a minimum horizontal and vertical clear zone area in
					 compliance with ADA requirements. No furnishings or obstructions are allowed.
					 See Figure 1.14-A (pedestrian zone treatment), dated September 2011, made a
					 part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Pedestrian zone" means the zone between the building face
					 and the curb. The elements of a pedestrian zone are: the private frontage area,
					 the pedestrian throughway area, and the furnishing area. See Figure 1.14-A
					 (pedestrian zone treatment), dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter,
					 and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Pedestrian zone fixture" means street furniture, paving,
					 and trees within the pedestrian zone, including street trees, planting strips,
					 street lights, pedestrian lights, street furniture, public art, sign poles,
					 fire hydrants, signal and electrical cabinets, bike racks, special pavement,
					 and outdoor seating. See Figure 1.15 (pedestrian zone fixtures), dated
					 September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this
					 chapter;
"Personal services" is a use classification pertaining to
					 services for the enhancement of personal appearance, cleaning, alteration or
					 reconditioning of garments and accessories, and similar non-business related or
					 nonprofessional services. Typical uses include reducing salons, tanning salons,
					 barber shops, tailors, shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, and dry
					 cleaning shops, but exclude uses classified under the office and vocational
					 school;
"Plane break" means a horizontal or vertical recess or
					 projection of a dimension specified by these rules particular to building
					 elevations, including facades;
"Planting strip" means a planted and landscaped area
					 accommodated within the furnishing area, intended to provide a buffer between
					 pedestrians and vehicles;
"Porte cochere" means a covered parking area and
					 driveway;
"Principal building" means the largest building on a lot,
					 usually located toward the frontage;
"Principal entrance" means the main point of access for
					 pedestrians into a building;
"Principal frontage" means the frontage designated to bear
					 the address and principal entrance to the building, and the measure of minimum
					 lot width as determined by the lot owner;
"Printing and publishing" is a use classification
					 pertaining to printing by computer, letterpress, lithography, gravure, screen,
					 offset, or electrostatic (xerographic) copying; and other establishments
					 serving the printing trade such as bookbinding, typesetting, engraving,
					 photoengraving, and electrotyping. This includes establishments that publish
					 newspapers, books and periodicals; establishments manufacturing business forms
					 and binding devices;
"Private frontage" means the area of the pedestrian
					 throughway area that is privately owned. The private frontage contributes to
					 the character of the neighborhood, and includes the front of building,
					 landscaping, and often a segment of the sidewalk;
"Project" means an endeavor undertaken by a landowner or
					 developer to develop a lot or combination of lots;
"Project site" means the gross land area of a lot or a
					 combination of lots for a proposed project;
"Promenade street" means a type of thoroughfare that
					 promotes pedestrian activity by providing amenities such as wide sidewalks,
					 street trees, street furnishings and reduced curb cuts. Promenade streets
					 provide pedestrian connections between public open spaces and
					 destinations;
"Public building" is a use classification pertaining to
					 buildings owned or developed by public entities or developed on state-owned
					 lands;
"Public frontage" means the area of the pedestrian
					 throughway area that is publically owned. The public frontage contributes to
					 the character of the neighborhood, and includes the sidewalk, landscaping and
					 furnishings. See Figure 1.14 (pedestrian zone treatment), dated September 2011,
					 made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of this chapter;
"Public project" means any project or activity of any
					 county or state agency conducted to fulfill a governmental function for public
					 benefit and in accordance with public policy;
"Public realm" means the area of the pedestrian zone that
					 is not contained within private lot lines;
"Public utility project" means any project or activity of
					 any county or state agency conducted to upgrade or construct utilities,
					 including sanitary sewer, drain lines, water, gas, electrical, telephone,
					 cable, pedestrian facilities, and roadway systems;
"Receiving site" means the parcel or combination of
					 parcels where floor area ratio transfer credits can be used to add development
					 rights that have been severed from a sending site;
"Recreation space" means an outdoors or indoors open space
					 within a development that can be located at any level and is available for
					 recreational use;
"Recycling collection facility" means any indoor or
					 outdoor space allocated to collecting and loading recyclable materials to be
					 transported to a recycling center. May include bins, boxes, cans, kiosk type
					 structures, and reverse vending machines;
"Regulating plan" means a zoning map which depicts the
					 neighborhood zones, areas subject to regulation by this chapter and other
					 pertinent portions of the authority's administrative rules;
"Religious facility" is a use classification pertaining to
					 places of worship, including any church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other
					 building or facility, primarily engaged in religious worship. The term
					 "Religious Facility" does not include uses, such as schools, recreational
					 facilities, day-care or child care facilities, kindergartens, dormitories, or
					 other facilities, for temporary or permanent residences, which are connected or
					 related to the religious facility or the principal buildings on the site, or
					 are located on the same site, even if the curriculum or services offered as
					 part of such use includes religious services and/or training;
"Reserved housing" means housing as defined in chapter
					 218, title 15, Hawaii administrative
					 rules;
"Residential" means premises available for human
					 dwelling;
"Restaurant" is a use classification pertaining to of the
					 sale of food and/or beverages in a ready-to-eat state for on-site or off-site
					 consumption. Typically, there are tables, counters, benches, or other public
					 seating facilities provided. Examples include a sit-down dining facility,
					 fast-food restaurant (no drive-through), donut shop, pizza shop, cafe, bakery,
					 cafeteria, coffee shop, lunchroom, delicatessen, and ice cream parlor. Includes
					 micro-breweries as accessory to the restaurant;
"Retail sales" is a use classification pertaining to the
					 sale of goods and merchandise;
"Right-of-way" means the area of a thoroughfare between
					 private lot lines;
"Robotic parking" means a mechanized parking system which
					 stores and retrieves vehicles in a compact storage facility;
"Secondary frontage" means on corner lots, the frontage
					 that is not the principal frontage;
"Sending site" means the parcel or combination of parcels
					 where floor area ratio transfer credits can be obtained in exchange for
					 severing development rights;
"Service street" means a thoroughfare with two travel
					 lanes and one parking-loading lane intended to provide vehicular access to
					 lots. The pedestrian realm requires no front yard space and no trees;
"Setback" means the dimension between the building
					 elevation and the lot line that must remain clear of any buildings or other
					 structures with the exception of authorized encroachments;
"Shared parking" means a system in which the parking
					 requirements for two or more uses are shared amongst each other, thereby
					 resulting in reductions in the parking requirements;
"Short-term bicycle parking" means a place to secure
					 bicycles for less than eight hours. Short-term bicycle parking can be provided
					 through bicycle racks, and storage facilities;
"Sidewalk" means the paved section of the pedestrian zone
					 used or intended to be used exclusively for pedestrian activity;
"Single family" is a use classification pertaining to a
					 single dwelling;
"Smart growth" means an urban planning theory that
					 concentrates growth in the center of a city to avoid urban sprawl and advocates
					 compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including
					 complete streets, and mixed-use development with a range of housing
					 choices;
"Special flood hazard area" means a designation by the
					 Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") that may include the V (velocity)
					 zones and coastal A zones where building construction is forbidden, restricted,
					 or contingent upon raising the building to the base flood elevation;
"Standard" means a development regulation that is
					 required, rather than discretionary;
"Stepback" means a building setback of a specified
					 distance that occurs at a prescribed number of stories above the ground;
"Story" means a level within a building that can be used
					 for living, work, storage, or recreation, excluding an attic or raised
					 basement;
"Street" means a walkable, low speed (twenty-five miles
					 per hour) thoroughfare primarily serving abutting property. A street is used to
					 connect neighborhoods within the district. Streets emphasize curb
					 parking;
"Street front element" means the portion of a building
					 that primarily sits along a build to line and creates a street wall that frames
					 the street;
"Street screen" means a freestanding wall built along the
					 frontage line, or coplanar with the facade. It may mask a parking lot from the
					 thoroughfare, provide privacy to a side yard, or strengthen the spatial
					 definition of the public realm;
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected with a
					 fixed location on the ground, including buildings, walls, swimming pools, and
					 signs;
"Swale" means a low or slightly depressed natural area for
					 drainage;
"Tandem parking" means two cars parked nose to end, one in
					 front of the other;
"Temporary parking" means parking establish for a fixed
					 period of time with the intent to discontinue such parking upon the expiration
					 of such time. Temporary parking does not involve the construction or alteration
					 an any permanent structure;
"Theater" is a use classification pertaining to
					 performance theaters, movie theaters, and amphitheaters;
"Thoroughfare" means a way or passage used by vehicular,
					 bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Thoroughfares consist of vehicular lanes and
					 the pedestrian zone and provide access to lots and open spaces;
"Thoroughfare plan" means a component of the mauka area
					 rules that shows planned changes to existing thoroughfares and the general
					 location of planned new thoroughfares. See Figure 1.4 (thoroughfare plan),
					 dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and attached at the end of
					 this chapter;
"Transit-oriented development" means a mixed-use area
					 intended to maximize access to public transport; often incorporating features
					 to encourage transit ridership;
"Urbanism" means collective term for the condition of a
					 compact, mixed-use settlement, including the physical form of its development
					 and its environmental, functional, economic, and sociocultural aspects;
"View corridor street" means a thoroughfare identified in
					 the mauka area plan, where special design and development standards are
					 required to protect views to the mountains and to the ocean. See Figure 1.6A
					 (view corridors), dated September 2011, made a part of this chapter, and
					 attached at the end of this chapter;
"Vocational school" is a use classification pertaining to
					 training in a skill or trade to be pursued as a career;
"Warehousing" is a use classification pertaining to the
					 wholesaling, storage, moving or bulk distribution of goods other than live
					 animals. Typical uses include wholesale distributors, storage warehouses, and
					 moving and storage firms;
"Workforce housing project" means new residential project
					 as defined in chapter
					 218, title 15, Hawaii administrative
					 rules;
"Zone" means the area or district of the mauka area
					 through which these rules are organized; and
"Zoning map" means the official map or maps that are part
					 of the mauka area rules and delineate the boundaries of individual zones and
					 districts (see regulating plan).