Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 7 - ALOHA TOWAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION › Chapter 170 - RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE › Subchapter 4 - DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES › Section 19-170-38 - Development objectives

Current through June, 2024
In order to achieve its statutory purposes, the
					 development corporation shall be guided by the following development objectives
					 in formulating a development plan for the Aloha Tower complex and in selecting
					 any proposal submitted by any qualified person for the development of all or
					 any part of the Aloha Tower complex or related areas.
(1) Ensure the project is capable of
				  integration into any overall development plan which may be adopted for the
				  Honolulu waterfront.
(2) Maintain
				  passenger ship operations in a manner compatible with the development of the
				  downtown waterfront as a people place and in conformity to the maritime
				  requirements of the department of transportation.
(3) Balance practical economic and market
				  realities with a vision of what can be created.
(4) Provide ease of pedestrian access to the
				  project and waterfront, and generous open spaces for public enjoyment by
				  eliminating visual and physical barriers between the waterfront and downtown,
				  and by creating strong pedestrian links between downtown and Aloha Tower,
				  particularly along Fort and Bishop streets.
(5) Improve view corridors down Fort street,
				  Bishop street and Alakea street.
(6) Expand and improve Irwin park while
				  maintaining its rich vegetation.
(7) Create a homogeneous project that avoids
				  fragmentation.
(8) Feature and
				  enhance the physical, public use and visual characteristics of the historic
				  Aloha Tower.
(9) Minimize
				  unattractive physical facilities (e.g. parking, utilities, service and
				  back-of-house operations).
(10)
				  Plan buildings and project features to attract people to the waterfront and
				  create a major public gathering place at the Aloha Tower complex by enhancing
				  public access to and along the water's edge and by creating opportunities for a
				  variety of water's-edge experiences appropriate to the downtown
				  waterfront.
(11) Develop uses which
				  would stimulate and be compatible with the commercial activities of the
				  downtown business community, which may include, but need not be limited to,
				  retail, restaurant, office, hotel, condominium, recreational, historical and
				  cultural uses; and create new activities to assist in bringing people to the
				  waterfront.
(12) Provide accessible
				  vehicular ingress and egress, and create a parking strategy which minimizes
				  both the cost and impact of parking on the Aloha Tower complex.
(13) Establish a construction phasing
				  strategy which will minimize disruption of maritime operations and achieve
				  planned development of the Aloha Tower in the earliest practicable
				  time.
(14) Create a financially
				  feasible and aesthetically creative project which can be initiated at the
				  earliest practicable time.
(15)
				  Encourage, to the extent possible, development of the Aloha Tower complex and
				  adjoining areas by a qualified private sector developer who will provide all or
				  substantially all of the costs of development.
(16) Utilize the powers of the development
				  corporation to transcend, as necessary, zoning, density and height limitations
				  in an aesthetically pleasing manner to accomplish the goals of the development
				  corporation and to encourage private sector developers to undertake development
				  plan solutions which will satisfy the foregoing development objectives.