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Infrastructure
SB3202 Prohibits county zoning ordinances from not allowing four or more residential units per residential lot within an urban district. Requires the counties to allow for attached and detached additional units or accessory dwelling units but authorizes the counties to impose certain restrictions. Provides that a parcel zoned for residential use that is in the state urban land use district shall not be prohibited from being subdivided, consolidated, or resubdivided under certain conditions. Requires the counties to consider the square footage of a development when determining the development's proportionate share of public facility capital improvement costs. Permits the appropriate board of water supply to calculate impact fees based on total number of fixtures when the public facility impacted is a water or sewage facility.
Infrastructure
SB 1154 Requires the public utilities commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules government agencies may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by renewable energy sources from their own facilities to another government agency's facilities, subject to certain restrictions.
Food
HB2083 Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist of locally sourced products by 2030. Requires public high schools under the Department of Education to provide plantbased meals as an option under the school meals program.
Infrastructure
SB2948 Authorizes residential uses in areas zoned for commercial to be considered permitted as long as the residential use is limited by ordinance to floors above the ground floor of a building or structure and development standards are met. Exempts areas zoned under the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority. Requires each county to adopt ordinances that allow for adaptive reuse of existing commercial buildings in the county's building codes. Requires counties to facilitate compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act when adopting an adaptive reuse building code ordinance.
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