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Honolulu, HI Code of Ordinances
THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF HONOLULU
TITLE I: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: THE MAYOR AND EXECUTIVE AGENCIES - ADDITIONAL POWERS, DUTIES, AND FUNCTIONS
CHAPTER 3: ADDITIONAL BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES
CHAPTER 4: ADDITIONAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNCIL AND LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES
CHAPTER 5: SALARIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND BONDING REQUIREMENTS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND NON-CIVIL-SERVICE OFFICERS
TITLE II: TAXATION AND FINANCES
CHAPTER 6: FUNDS, FEES, AND LOAN PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 7: RESERVED
CHAPTER 8: REAL PROPERTY TAX
CHAPTER 8A: TAXATION OF TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS
TITLE III: MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 9: BOTANICAL GARDENS
CHAPTER 10: PUBLIC PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES
CHAPTER 11: CHILD CARE
CHAPTER 12: ANIMALS AND FOWLS
CHAPTER 13: STREETS, SIDEWALKS, MALLS, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
CHAPTER 14: PUBLIC WORKS INFRASTRUCTURE
TITLE IV: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 15: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 15A: REGULATIONS OF VEHICLES
CHAPTER 15B: PUBLIC TRANSIT
TITLE V: BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION CODES
CHAPTER 16: BUILDING CODE
CHAPTER 16A: HOUSING CODE
CHAPTER 16B: BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION CODE
CHAPTER 16C: BUILDING MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 17: ELECTRICAL CODE
CHAPTER 18: FEES AND PERMITS FOR BUILDING, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, AND SIDEWALK CODES
CHAPTER 18A: GRADING, SOIL EROSION, AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CHAPTER 19: PLUMBING CODE
CHAPTER 20: FIRE CODE OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU
TITLE VI: LAND USE
CHAPTER 21: LAND USE ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 21A: FLOOD HAZARD AREAS
CHAPTER 22: SUBDIVISION OF LAND
CHAPTER 23: STATE LAND USE CLASSIFICATION
CHAPTER 24: DEVELOPMENT PLANS
CHAPTER 25: SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS
CHAPTER 26: SHORELINE SETBACKS
CHAPTER 27: COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 28: SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 29: AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS
CHAPTER 30: WATER MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 31: COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 32: AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING
CHAPTER 33: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS
CHAPTER 33A: IMPACT FEES FOR TRAFFIC AND ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS IN EWA
TITLE VII: BUSINESS
CHAPTER 34: REGULATION OF BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 35: INCENTIVES FOR BUSINESS TO CREATE NEW JOBS
CHAPTER 36: COMMON CARRIERS
TITLE VIII: PROPERTY
CHAPTER 37: REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU
CHAPTER 38: LEASE AND RENTAL OF CITY REAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING FEES
CHAPTER 39: MAXIMUM ANNUAL RENEGOTIATED LEASE RENT
CHAPTER 40: OFFENSES RELATING TO PROPERTY
TITLE IX: PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SANITATION
CHAPTER 41: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 42: COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE
CHAPTER 43: SEWERS, DRAINAGE, AND CESSPOOLS
PARALLEL REFERENCES
TABLES
ARTICLE 5: SPECIFIC USE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
   21-5.10   Purpose and intent
   21-5.10A   Agribusiness activities
   21-5.20   Agricultural products processing, major and minor
   21-5.30   Amusement and recreation facilities—Indoor
   21-5.40   Amusement facilities—Outdoor
   21-5.50   Antennas
   21-5.60   Automobile service stations
   21-5.70   Bars, nightclubs, taverns, and cabarets
   21-5.80   Base yards
   21-5.80A   Biofuel processing facilities
   21-5.90   Car washing establishments
   21-5.100   Cemeteries and columbaria
   21-5.110   Centralized bulk collection, storage and distribution of agricultural products to wholesale and retail markets
   21-5.120   Centralized mail and package handling facilities
   21-5.130   Commercial parking lots and garages
   21-5.140   Composting, major and minor
   21-5.150   Consulates
   21-5.160   Convenience stores
   21-5.170   Dance or music schools
   21-5.180   Day-care facilities
   21-5.190   Drive-through facilities
   21-5.200   Dwellings for cemetery caretakers
   21-5.210   Dwellings, multi-family
   21-5.220   Dwelling, owners or caretakers, accessory
   21-5.230   Eating establishments
   21-5.240   Explosives and toxic chemical manufacturing, storage and distribution
   21-5.250   Farm dwellings
   21-5.260   Food manufacturing and processing facilities
   21-5.270   Freight movers
   21-5.280   Golf courses
   21-5.290   Group living facilities
   21-5.300   Guesthouses, accessory
   21-5.310   Heavy equipment sales and rentals
   21-5.320   Helistops
   21-5.330   Historic structures, use of
   21-5.340   Home improvement centers
   21-5.350   Home occupations
   21-5.360   Hotels
   21-5.370   Off-site joint development of two or more zoning lots
   21-5.380   Joint development of two or more adjacent subdivision lots
   21-5.380A   Joint development of two or more adjacent subdivision lots—Waikiki special district or Ala Moana transit-oriented development special district
   21-5.390   Joint use of parking and loading facilities
   21-5.400   Kennels
   21-5.410   Livestock production—Major
   21-5.420   Manufacturing, processing and packaging, general
   21-5.430   Marina accessories
   21-5.440   Medical clinics
   21-5.450   Meeting facilities
   21-5.460   Motion picture and television production studios
   21-5.470   Neighborhood grocery stores
   21-5.480   Off-site vehicular and bicycle parking, or loading facilities
   21-5.490   Offices, accessory
   21-5.500   Petroleum processing
   21-5.500A   Plant nurseries
   21-5.500B   Real estate offices
   21-5.510   Recreational facilities—Outdoor
   21-5.510A   Repair establishments, major
   21-5.520   Resource extraction
   21-5.530   Retail, accessory
   21-5.540   Roadside stand, accessory
   21-5.550   Roomers, accessory
   21-5.560   Sale and service of machinery used in agricultural production
   21-5.570   Salvage, scrap and junk storage and processing
   21-5.580   Sawmills
   21-5.590   Schools—Elementary, intermediate, and high
   21-5.600   Schools, language
   21-5.610   Self-storage facilities
   21-5.610A   Special needs housing for the elderly
   21-5.620   Storage and sale of seed, feed, fertilizer and other products essential to agricultural production
   21-5.630   Storage yards
   21-5.640   Time sharing units
   21-5.650   Utility installations
   21-5.660   Vacation cabins
   21-5.670   Veterinary establishments
   21-5.680   Waste disposal and processing
   21-5.690   Wholesaling and distribution outlets
   21-5.700   Wind machines
   21-5.710   Zoos
   21-5.720   Accessory dwelling units
   21-5.730   Bed and breakfast homes and transient vacation units