Honolulu City Council Policy Resolutions(Link to original Word Processing Version)
88-404
CD-1, FD-1
RELATING TO AMENDING THE GENERAL PLAN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF
HONOLULU.
WHEREAS, Section 5-403(a) of the Revised Charter provides
for the preparation of revisions to the General Plan by the Chief
Planning Officer; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan Preamble requires that whenever
the State Department of Planning and Economic Development revises
its population projections for Oahu, the objectives and policies
of the General Plan will be reevaluated in light of the new
projections and amendments will be proposed as may be appropriate
and whenever such revised population projections include an
extended time horizon, the General Plan will be amended to
maintain a planning horizon of approximately 20 years; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Business and Economic
Development, successor agency to the State Department of Planning
and Economic Development, published preliminary new population
projections for Oahu which include an extended time horizon to
the year 2010 in January 1988; and
WHEREAS, the Chief Planning Officer has prepared a report
containing an evaluation of the implications for the General Plan
of the new State Department of Business and Economic Development
preliminary population projections and recommendations for
amending the General Plan based on the findings resulting from
the evaluation; and
WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission has reviewed the Chief
Planning Officer's report and recommendations for amendments to
the General Plan, has held public hearings thereon, and has
transmitted its findings and recommendations together with the
Chief Planning Officer's report and recommendations through the
Mayor to the City Council for its consideration and action; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the Chief Planning
Officer's report and recommendations and the City Planning
Commission's findings and recommendations, has held public
hearings thereon, and has wherever deemed necessary incorporated
revisions to the General Plan based upon the above-mentioned
report, findings, recommendations, and the final population
projections published by the State Department of Business and
Economic Development and upon testimony received at the public
hearings; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that in compliance with Section 5-412 of the Revised Charter, Resolution No. 82-188, Amended Draft No. 2 (adopted December 8, 1982), relating to the General Plan of the City and County of Honolulu, is amended in the manner shown in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County
of Honolulu that the Clerk is hereby directed to transmit this
resolution to the Mayor for approval, as prescribed in Section 5-412 of the Revised Charter; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that this resolution shall take effect upon its approval pursuant to Section 5-412 of the Revised Charter.
INTRODUCED BY:
Arnold Morgado, Jr. (BR)
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_________________________________ ADOPTED this 19 day of January , 1989. EXIBIT A
Amendment to the General Plan
of the City and County of Honolulu
It is proposed that the Preamble and the Objectives and Policies be amended with respect to the subject areas indicated as follows (material to be deleted is bracketed; new material is underscored):
PREAMBLE
Amendments
For the General Plan to fulfill its purpose of providing
overall guidance to the actions of government, private
enterprise, and individual citizens across a broad spectrum of
concerns, it must become neither a rigid nor an obsolete
document. To keep the Plan flexible and up-to-date, its
objectives and policies must be subject to change over time in
response to changes in the concerns of the people of Oahu, new
approaches and opportunities for addressing those concerns, and
changes in the basic assumptions underlying the objectives and
policies. One means of accomplishing this is provided by the
City Charter which directs the Chief Planning Officer to prepare
revisions to the General Plan at least every five years for
Council consideration. More importantly, however, the City
Council may amend or revise the General Plan whenever it deems
necessary.
Emphasis should be placed on reevaluating and amending
selected General Plan objectives and policies as problems and
issues arise. The City and County government should develop
means for identifying emerging problems and issues and evaluating
their effect on the concerns of the people of Oahu as expressed
in the General Plan. Such an ongoing process would provide a
basis for the Chief Planning Officer to initiate timely proposals
to amend the General Plan in response to changing public
concerns.
One of the key assumptions underlying many of the General
Plan objectives and policies is anticipated future population
growth for the Island of Oahu as projected by the [State
Department of Planning and Economic Development (DPED)] State
Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED).
Consequently, whenever [DPED] DBED revises its population
projections for Oahu, the objectives and policies of the Plan
will be reevaluated in light of the new projections and
amendments will be proposed as may be appropriate. Also,
whenever revised population projections include an extended time
horizon, the General Plan will be amended to maintain a planning
horizon of approximately 20 years. OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
Population
Objective C
. . .
Policy 2
Encourage development [of a] within the secondary urban center at
Kapolei [in the West Beach-Makakilo area] and the Ewa and Central
Oahu urban-fringe areas to relieve developmental pressures in the
remaining urban-fringe and rural areas and to meet housing needs
not readily provided in the primary urban center.
Policy 3
Manage physical growth and development in the urban-fringe and
rural areas so that:
a. An undesirable spreading of development is prevented;
and
b. Their [proportion of the islandwide resident population
remains unchanged] population densities are consistent
with the character of development and environmental
qualities desired for such areas.
Policy 4
Seek a year [2005] 2010 distribution of Oahu's residential
population which would be in accord with the following table:
DISTRIBUTION OF RESIDENTIAL POPULATION
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% of Year [2005] 2010
Primary Urban Center [47.5 - 52.5%] 45.1 - 49.8%
95.0 - 105.0%
*This entire paragraph is to be deleted. The underscoring and
brackets within the outer brackets have been retained for informational
purposes only.
Objective G
Policy 1
Direct major economic activity [primarily to Honolulu, Aiea, and
Pearl City; and, secondarily to the West Beach-Makakilo area] and
[to provide full] government services [in both the Primary Urban
Center and the Secondary Urban Center] to the primary and
secondary urban centers.
Policy 4
Encourage the continuation of a [fairly] high level of military-related employment in the Hickam-Pearl Harbor, Wahiawa, [and]
Kailua-Kaneohe, and Ewa areas.
Transportation and Utilities
Objective A
Policy 2
Provide transportation services to people living within the Ewa,
Central Oahu, and Pearl City-Hawaii Kai corridors primarily
through a mass transit system including exclusive right-of-way
rapid transit and feeder-bus [system] components [and, where
appropriate,] as well as through the existing highway system with
limited [highway] improvement[.] as may be appropriate.
Policy 3
Provide transportation services outside the Ewa, Central Oahu,
and Pearl City-Hawaii [corridor] corridors primarily through a
system of express- and feeder-buses [and] as well as through the
highway system with limited to moderate [highway] improvements[.]
sufficient to meet the needs of the communities being served.
Objective C
To develop a secondary urban center in [the] Ewa with its nucleus
in the [West Beach-Makakilo] Kapolei area.
Policy 1
Allocate funds from the City and County's capital improvement
program for public projects that are needed to [bring about the
gradual] facilitate the development of the [West Beach-Makakilo
area as a] secondary urban center.
Objective D
To maintain those development characteristics in the urban-fringe
and rural areas which make them desirable places to live.
Policy 1
Develop and maintain urban-fringe areas as predominantly
residential areas characterized by generally low rise, low
density development which may include significant levels of
retail and service commercial uses as well as satellite
institutional and public uses geared to serving the needs of
households.
Policy 2
Coordinate plans for developments within the Ewa and Central Oahu
urban-fringe areas with the State and Federal governments and
with the sugar, pineapple, and other emerging agricultural
industries.
Establish a green belt in the Ewa and Central Oahu areas of Oahu
in the Development Plans.
Maintain rural areas as areas which are intended to provide
environments supportive of lifestyle choices which are dependent
on the availability of land suitable for small to moderate size
agricultural pursuits, a relatively open and scenic setting,
and/or a small town, country atmosphere consisting of communities
which are small in size, very low density and low rise in
character, and may contain a mixture of uses.
Note: Existing Objectives D and E and their associated policies
The Chief Planning Officer, in printing the General Plan may include
in any appendix thereto, for illustrative purposes only, a map of Year
2010 Urbanized Areas which, if included, shall be substantially the map
of the Year 2005 Urbanized Areas adopted as part of the General Plan of
the City and County of Honolulu amended to add to the area designated
"Urban-Fringe," the area cross-hatched on the map.
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