BE IT ORDAINED by the People of the City and County of Honolulu:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this ordinance is to remove the 1000-foot separation and 3-month vacancy restrictions for meeting facilities located in industrial districts.

SECTION 2. Section 21-5.450, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu 1990 ("Meeting facilities"), is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b)    In the I-1 and I-2 zoning districts, the following standards shall apply:

(1)    Prior to commencement of a meeting facility use in an industrial district, the owner and operator of the meeting facility shall file with the department and record in the bureau of conveyances and/or the land court of the State of Hawaii, as is appropriate, a declaration acceptable to the department, stating that the owner and operator recognizes that:

(A)    Structures formerly in industrial use may require upgrades in order to comply with different governmental regulations governing use of a structure as a meeting facility. These regulations include but are not limited to building, electrical, mechanical, fire, and occupancy code requirements; and

(B)    [abutting] Abutting and neighboring properties can, by right, include potentially annoying or even noxious industrial uses at any time, including after the commencement of the meeting facility use.

    The declaration shall also contain provisions which preclude the meeting facility and its representatives from filing nuisance complaints against any industrial use operating in compliance with applicable laws;

(2)    No accessory uses shall be permitted unless the accessory use also is a permitted use in the district as enumerated in Table 21-3, provided that this subdivision shall not prohibit the following accessory uses to a religious facility such as a church, temple or synagogue:

(A)    A school for the vocational training of adults for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate; and

(B)    Classes on religious subjects;

(3)    A parking lot and landscaping plan demonstrating compliance with the minimum requirements of this chapter for off-street parking, loading, and landscaping and screening shall be submitted to the director for review. This plan shall be approved by the director before the space can be used as a meeting facility; and

(4)    In the I-2 zoning district, [No] no meeting facility shall be located within 1,000 feet of another meeting facility in the same or another industrial district, whether the other meeting facility is a permitted use or a nonconforming use[; and

(5)    The space occupied by the meeting facility shall have been vacant and actively marketed for sale or lease for at least three months prior to the date of occupancy by the meeting facility]."

SECTION 3. Ordinance material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. When revising, compiling or printing this ordinance for inclusion in the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu, the revisor of ordinances need not include the brackets, the bracketed material or the underscoring.

SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.