2010 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 1. GOVERNMENT
TITLE 13. PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
206E. Hawaii Community Development Authority
§206E-2 Definitions.

§206E-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:

(1) "Authority" means the Hawaii community development authority established by section 206E-3.

(2) "County" means any county of the State.

(3) "Local governing body" means the county council.

(4) "Project" means a specific work or improvement, including real and personal properties, or any interest therein, acquired, owned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved by the authority, including a residential project, a redevelopment project, or a commercial project, all as defined herein, or any combination thereof, which combination shall hereinafter be called and known as a "multipurpose project".

(A) "Residential project" means a project or that portion of a multipurpose project, including residential dwelling units, designed and intended for the purpose of providing housing and such facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto;

(B) "Redevelopment project" means an undertaking for the acquisition, clearance, replanning, reconstruction, and rehabilitation or a combination of these and other methods, of an area for a residential project, for an incidental commercial project, and for other facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto, pursuant to and in accordance with this chapter. The terms "acquisition, clearance, replanning, reconstruction, and rehabilitation" shall include renewal, redevelopment, conservation, restoration, or improvement, or any combination thereof;

(C) "Commercial project" means an undertaking involving commercial or light industrial development, which includes a mixed use development where commercial or light industrial facilities may be built into, adjacent to, under or above residential units.

(5) "Project cost" means the total of all costs incurred by the authority in carrying out all undertakings which it deems reasonable and necessary for the development of a project including but not limited to: studies; surveys; plans; specifications; architectural, engineering, or any other development related services; acquisition of land and any improvement thereon; site preparation and development; construction; reconstruction; rehabilitation; the necessary expenses in administering the chapter; the cost of financing the project; and relocation costs.

(6) "Public agency" means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation agency, or instrumentality of the federal, state, or county government.

(7) "Public facilities" includes streets, utility and service corridors, and utility lines where applicable, sufficient to adequately service developable improvements in the district, sites for schools, parks, parking garage, sidewalks, pedestrian ways, and other community facilities. "Public facilities" shall also include public highways, as defined by statute, storm drainage systems, water systems, street lighting systems, off-street parking facilities, and sanitary sewerage systems.

(8) "Qualified person" includes any individual, partnership, corporation or any public agency, possessing the competence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial, personnel and tangible resources, required for the purposes of the project and such other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the authority in administering the chapter.

(9) "Real property" means lands, structures, and interests in land, including lands under water and riparian rights, space rights, and air rights and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term. Real property also means any and all interests in such property less than full title, such as easements, incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest, or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages, or otherwise. [L 1976, c 153, pt of §1; am L 1979, c 126, §1; am L 1982, c 228, §4; am L 1984, c 21, §1]