Revised Ordinances of Honolulu(Link to original Word Processing Version)
koolaupoko’s role in The General Plan of the City and County of Honolulu designates the central
portion of the Koolaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan Area (SCPA), shown in Figure 1-1,
as an urban fringe area to remain a predominantly residential suburb with limited
future population growth. The northern and southern portions of Koolaupoko are designated rural
areas to remain in predominately agricultural and preservation land uses. The general locations
of these designations and the communities that are associated with them are indicated
in Figure 1-1.
The Koolaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan shall be a plan for sustaining quality of
life through community involvement by balancing and integrating environmental, economic, social and cultural
objectives. This includes the creation, maintenance and re-evaluation of fair and equitable regulation.
The present land use pattern in Koolaupoko began to take shape in the
1940’s during World War II. There was rapid growth in suburban development in
the following three decades, due largely to the opening of trans-Koolau highways which
made the region more accessible to Honolulu. In the 1960’s, Kaneohe was the
proposed site of a deep-draft harbor and major new power generating plant, which
would have spurred an even faster pace of regional urban development. By the
mid-1970’s, however, environmental concerns, focused especially on the quality of Kaneohe Bay, led
to the abandonment of these proposals and a shift in public policy, as
expressed in the 1977 General Plan, toward slower population growth and urban development
in the district. During the decade between 1980 and 1990, the district’s population
grew at an average annual rate of 0.7 percent compared to the islandwide
rate of 0.9 percent.
The Koolaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan reaffirms the region’s role in Oahu’s development pattern
as intended in the General Plan policies by establishing the following principles for
future land use and development in Koolaupoko: § Limit the potential for new housing in the region so that significant residential
growth is directed instead to the Primary Urban Center and Ewa Development Plan
Areas in accordance with the population distribution policy set forth in the General
Plan, which currently provides that Koolaupoko's share of the 2010 distribution of Oahu's
residential population is to fall in the range of 11.0 to 12.2 percent.
§ Revitalize existing commercial centers and limit the expansion of commercial centers and economic
activity in the region to promote the development and growth of employment in
the Primary Urban Center, and the designated secondary urban center at Kapolei.
§ Maintain the predominantly low-rise, low-density, single-family form of residential development in the urban
fringe and rural communities depicted on Figure 1-1.
§ Maintain and promote small-scale agricultural uses in the mauka areas of Waimanalo and
from Kahaluu north to Kualoa.
§ Avoid urbanization of flood- and erosion-prone areas and seek to restore the natural
filtering, flood control, recreational, biological and aesthetic values of streams, fishponds and wetlands.
§ Preserve scenic views and the scenic beauty of the ocean, bays and beaches.
§ Preserve scenic views of ridges, upper valley slopes, shoreline areas from trans-Koolau and
coastal highways; from coastal waters looking mauka; and from popular hiking trails that
extend toward the Koolau Mountain Range and mauka from Kawainui Marsh.
§ Discourage the use of shore armoring structures.
§ Promote access to mountain and shoreline resources for recreational purposes and traditional hunting,
fishing, gathering, religious, and cultural practices. Promote restoration of fish population in near-shore
waters.
§ Encourage continuation of small-scale agricultural uses in urban areas.
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