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Committee forwards bill to allow hospitals in mixed industrial-commercial zoning to full council
Summary
The county’s planning director recommended adding hospitals and related care facilities as a permitted use in the industrial-commercial-mixed (MCX) zoning district; the committee forwarded Bill 22 to the full council with a favorable recommendation after members discussed whether to separate hospitals from residential group-living uses.
The Hawaii County Council Committee on Economic Development voted unanimously to forward Bill 22, which would permit hospitals and related care facilities in the industrial-commercial-mixed (MCX) zoning district, to the full council with a favorable recommendation.
Jeff Darrow, Planning Director for the Hawaii County Planning Department, said the proposal would add hospitals, sanitariums, old-age and convalescent facilities, nursing and rest homes to the list of uses in the MCX district. Darrow told the committee the amendment “aligns with the public health and safety goals within the general plan,” is consistent with the intent of the MCX…
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