HCC §23-69
What must be shown on the final subdivision map
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lists all the details that must appear on the final subdivision map and any extra sheets. It covers the map's basic info, property lines, streets, easements, and required signatures. The goal is to make sure the map is complete and accurate before it is recorded.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Information required on final plat
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
In addition to any other information required to be shown thereon under provisions of any State statute or County ordinance the following information shall be shown on the final plat and supplemental sheets: (1) Date, northpoint and scale of drawing; (2) Legal description of the tract boundaries; (3) Names and addresses of the owner, subdivider, and engineer, or surveyor who prepared the plat; (4) Reference points of existing surveys identified, related to the plat by distances and azimuths, and reference to a field book or map as follows: (A) All stakes, monuments or other evidence found on the ground and used to determine the boundaries of the subdivision; (B) Adjoining corners of all adjoining subdivisions; (C) Boundary lines and grants within and adjacent to the plat; (D) All other monuments found or established in making the survey of the subdivision or required to be installed by provisions of this chapter; (5) Tract boundary lines, right-of-way lines of streets: lot lines with dimensions, azimuths and radii, points of curvature and tangent azimuths shall be shown; (6) The width of the portion of streets being dedicated, the width of any existing right-of-way and the widths each side of the centerline. For streets and curvature, all curve data shall be based on the street centerline and, in addition to centerline dimensions, shall indicate thereon the central angle; (7) All easements which shall be denoted by fine broken lines, clearly identified and if already on record, its recorded reference; if any easement is not definitely located on record, a statement of such easement. The widths of the easement and information sufficient to definitely locate the easement with respect to the subdivision shall be shown. If the easement is being dedicated by the map, it shall be properly referenced in the owner’s certificates of dedication; (8) Lot identification which shall be according to good engineering practices; (9) Land parcels to be dedicated for any purpose, public or private, to be distinguished from lots intended for sale and their use indicated; (10) Minimum building setback lines, where not otherwise fixed by a building code or County ordinance; (11) The following certificates which may be combined where appropriate: (A) A certificate signed and acknowledged by all parties having any record title interest in the land subdivided consenting to the preparation and recording of the plat when required by the director. (B) A certificate signed and acknowledged as above, when dedicating all parcels of land shown on the final map and intended for any public use except those parcels which are intended for the exclusive use of the lot owners in the subdivision, their licensees, visitors, tenants and servants. (C) A certificate with the seal of and signed by the engineer or surveyor responsible for the survey and final draft. (D) All other certificates now or hereafter required by law; (12) All control of access lines adjacent to State highways which shall be denoted by the State highways division standard symbol of semicircles on the control of access line. SUBDIVISIONS § 23-70
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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