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Committee hears draft housing chapter: plan estimates 17,000-unit need and proposes incentives, zoning changes
Summary
Planning staff told the committee the draft housing chapter estimates an additional 17,000 housing units needed over 25 years, suggests incentives for smaller and mixed-income housing, and recommends code amendments and programs to preserve and rehab existing stock while prioritizing affordability for Hawaii County residents.
Planning staff told the policy committee that housing is among the county’s most urgent challenges and presented the draft chapter “Housing for All.” Bethany Morrison summarized the chapter’s goal as ensuring “residents have access to adequate and affordable housing” and described data used in the plan.
Morrison said county forecasts project an additional 17,000 housing units will be needed over the next 25 years and that the county already faces a shortfall of more than 5,000 units. “We need to be building, approximately 900 new units of housing per year to accommodate our past and future growth,” she said. Morrison also noted that the Office of Housing has nearly 8,000 units in the pipeline at…
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