KAILUA NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD NO. 31

PLANNING, ZONING, AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
7:00 to 9:00 pm
In-person at the Kailua District Park Multipurpose Room or District Meeting Room

Chair: Donna Wong. Members: Jennifer Barra, Kelli Ann Kobayashi, Levani Lipton, Kalama Souza, Steve Trecker, and Gary Weller.

1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes
3. Announcements
4. Resident and Community Concerns
5. Kihapai Hale 734-735 Kihapai Place city owned affordable housing project https://www.hawaiicdc.com/projects/kihapai-hale-kailua-oahu
a. Does the city need to develop a tsunami evacuation plan?
6. 330 Kuulei Rd. (Kuulei LLC) apartments – 60-foot building; in Koolaupoko Sustainable Communities Plan 40-foot commercial zoning height limit. Being constructed.
7. Kalaheo Hillside
8. Kawainui-Hamakua Master Plan Project
9. Marine Corps Base Hawaii
10. Dog park at Hamakua
a. DLNR is conducting an Environmental Site Assessment of the property
11. Ka’iwa Ridge (“Lanikai Pillbox”) Trail
12. Adventist Health Castle
13. Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall
14. Kailua public schools land transferred from City and County to State DOE
15. New landfill location
a. At Mayor Blangiardi’s Windward Town Hall 5/8/25 meeting the Mayor said that the next landfill will not be at either of the 2 quarry sites
16. Manuiwa o ka Malanai proposed Fisheries Management Plan
17. Iwi kupuna Kailua
18. Kailua municipal parking lot changes
a. Archaeological study begins March 2026
b. Will excavate 15 test sites
c. Eight parking stalls will be closed at a time
19. Building permit application in Kaopa silt basin
20. Charter amendment # 148
a. Amending the Charter to add historic preservation as an allowable use of monies in the Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund and rename the fund Land, Natural Resources, and Historic Preservation Fund to better reflect the purpose of the fund.
21. Kinai`Eha programs at the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center Campus
22. Blackstone
23. Bill 44 (2025) Relating to Affordable Rental housing
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=24784
a. Status: passed 1st reading. Not heard by ZP committee
b. Adds business zoning district where affordable rental housing projects are permitted
24. Bill 53 (2025) Relating to Affordable Housing
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=25571
a. Status: passed 1st reading. After 8/19/25 held indefinitely.
b. Requires a new affordable rental housing project to provide 1 parking stall for every 2 units within the project
c. Requires all project developers to make a presentation to the relevant neighborhood board
25. Bill 72 (2025) Relating to Affordable Housing
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=26456
a. Status: passed 1st reading. Not heard by any committee
b. Adds the business zoning districts as a zoning district in which affordable rental housing projects are permitted
26. Bill 17 (2026) – Relating to Affordable Rental Housing
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=26972
a. Changes the maximum building height from 60 feet to the lesser of the maximum height for the underlying zoning district or special district, or 60 feet.
27. Bill 18, CD1 (2026) – Relating to Affordable Housing
https://hnldoc.ehawaii.gov/hnldoc/document-download?id=27355
a. Status: Passed 1st Reading, 3/3/26 hearing was held by the HPP Committee, was Amended by a CD1, but not approved out of Committee. Bill 18, CD1 was postponed to a date and time to be determined by the Committee Chair.
b. Summary: Amends the maximum building height to 60 feet or the maximum height for the underlying zoning district or special district, whichever is greater.
28. Bill 7 Ordinance 19-8 (ROH Chapter 32)
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/honolulu/latest/honolulu/0-0-0-37103
The original intent of Bill 7 (2019) was two-fold. First, to increase the supply of affordable housing rental housing in low-rise multifamily dwellings in apartment, apartment mixed-use, and business mixed-use zoning districts, and reduce the proliferation of monster homes in the residential zoning districts. Second, to make changes to the Building Code by creating new standards for special mid-rise residential construction to allow for the development of smaller parcels in high-density districts
a. Bill 7 Kailua housing projects
(1) 330 Kuulei Road
(a) Target population: family & homeless
(b) 5 stories, 38 units. Length of Affordability: 61 years
(c) Area Median Gross Income (AMGI) 30% to 100%
(d) Rents range from $642 (1 bedroom) to $2,237 (2 bedroom)
(e) Completion December 2025
(f) Commercial area 1,992 sq ft
(g) No on-site parking. Parking available in adjacent municipal lot, commercial lots, and street parking.
(2) 528 Wailepo Street
(a) Not for sale 7,248 sq ft lot. Estimated value $1,841,400
(3) 58 Kihapai Street
(a) Zoned A-2
(4) 614 Wailepo Street
(a) Multifamily, 38 units, new construction. Affordable for 61 years
(b) 4 story elevator serviced
(c) Available from 30% Area Gross Media Income (AGM) to 60% AGM
(d) Property owner AHE Group – Makani Maeva
29. New Business
30. Adjournment

Planning, Zoning & Environment (PZ&E) Committee
April 2026 Meeting Report
Chair, Donna Wong

1. A committee meeting was held in-person on April 21, 2026, chaired by Donna Wong, and attended by committee members Jennifer Barra, Steve Trecker, and Gary Weller, KNB member Bill Hicks, and Thomas Dye, Graham Hart, and Brandon Large.

2. Graham Hart and Brandon Large provided a presentation on the SMA Major application for 60 Kaapuni Drive.
BOARD MOTION: After the presentation Steve moved, and Gary seconded that “The Kailua Neighborhood Board recommends that the following conditions be added to the 60 Kaapuni Drive SMA Major application before it is approved by the Council Zoning and Planning Committee.” The motion passed by all present.
a. Condition: all artificial light from exterior light fixtures from directly illuminating or projecting across property boundaries toward the shoreline and ocean waters except as otherwise permitted by HRS 205A-7.1(b) and that light fixtures be fully shielded and exterior lighting to be turned off when human activity is not occurring in the illuminated area.
b. Condition: that all projects site work and construction activities are limited to daylight hours (from sunrise to sunset) to avoid collisions and fatalities during seabird fledging season from September 15 through December 15.
c. Condition: require that a visual survey for seabirds and burrow nests must be conducted prior to any construction activities
d. Condition: if wedge-tailed Shearwater or any sea birds’ nests or burrows are found sometime between late October through the end of November, work must be discontinued for 100 to 115 days until all fledging’s have left their nests
e. Condition: that barbless fencing must be used for all fence construction to avoid the entanglement of Hawaiian hoary bats.
f. Condition: that a 300-foot buffer must be observed if a monk seal pup is present
g. Condition: that landscaping must not extend seaward of the shoreline as depicted in the current certified shoreline survey for the shoreline lot, or in the event there is no current certified shoreline survey for the lot, seaward of the shoreline as defined in HRS 205A
h. Condition: require that the landowner acknowledge that “bed and breakfast home and transient vacation units”, as defined in HOR Chapter 21, of the LUO are not allowed.
i. Condition: require the landowner to acknowledge that land makai of the regulatory shoreline is State public land within the State Land Use Conservation District and must remain available for public use and recreation activities.
j. Condition: during any penetration of the ground an archaeological monitor or consultant must be present.
k. Condition: during any penetration of the ground an archaeological monitor or consultant must be present.

3. Thomas Dye, a member of the Oahu Historic Preservation Commission, discussed the Commission’s concerns regarding the prevalence of iwi kupuna in Kailua’s jaucas sand deposits.

4. BOARD MOTION: After discussion on Bill 53 Jennifer moved and Gary seconded that “The Kailua Neighborhood Board supports Bill 53 for the following reasons:
a. The bill requires an applicant to present affordable rental housing project to the neighborhood board within 60 days
b. The bill requires 1 parking space for every 2 units. (Currently no parking spaces are required.)
c. The housing project will have an on site resident manager unit.

5. The committee discussed but took no action on Bills 44, 72, or 18.

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