Title
BILL 104 (2024), AMENDING CHAPTERS 19.04, 19.08, AND 19.29, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO KITCHENS, KITCHENETTES, AND WET BARS; AND SECTION 19.36B.020, MAUI COUNTY CODE, TO ADD PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR DWELLING UNITS WITH KITCHENETTES (DRIP-3)
Description
The Committee is in receipt of the following:
1. Bill 104 (2024), entitled "A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTERS 19.04, 19.08, AND 19.29, MAUI COUNTY CODE, ADDING A NEW DEFINITION AND USE FOR KITCHENETTE AND AMENDING THE EXISTING DEFINITIONS OF DWELLING UNIT AND WET BAR, AND AMENDING SECTION 19.36B.020 TO ADD PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR KITCHENETTES." Bill 104's purpose is to provide lower-cost opportunities for more autonomous living areas in a dwelling unit by amending the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to: 1) allow for kitchenettes in dwelling units in the Residential and Rural Districts on Maui and Lana'i; and 2) require a dwelling unit with a kitchenette to be occupied on a long-term residential basis, with one additional off-street parking space to accommodate the higher intensity use for each kitchenette. Bill 104 also makes conforming amendments to the definitions of "kitchen" and "wet bar."
2. An Amendment Summary Form, dated November 14, 2024, from the Housing and Land Use Committee Chair (2023-2025 Council term), with a proposed CD1 version of Bill 104 (2024), entitled "A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTERS 19.04, 19.08, 19.29, AND 19.36B, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO KITCHENS, KITCHENETTES, AND WET BARS." The proposed CD1 version: 1) incorporates clarifying revisions to the bill's title and purpose statement; 2) removes the requirements for dwelling units with kitchenettes to be occupied on a long-term residential basis and to have one additional off-street parking space for each kitchenette from the definition of "kitchenette" and inserts the requirements into Chapters 19.08 and 19.29, Maui County Code; and 3) incorporates technical and nonsubstantive revisions.
3. An Amendment ...
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