HCC §25-4-9
Rules for building a guest house
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section sets the rules for building a guest house on your property. You can only have one guest house, and your building site must be at least 7,500 square feet. The guest house cannot be bigger than 500 square feet, taller than 20 feet, or have a kitchen.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Guest houses
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.
One guest house may only be established on a building site that is at least seven thousand five hundred square feet in area. A guest house shall not exceed five hundred square feet in gross floor area, shall not be more than twenty feet in height, and shall not have a kitchen. (1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999.)25-4-9
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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