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HCC §25-7-22

Allowed uses in the CDH district

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This section lists the many types of businesses, homes, and community places that are allowed in the CDH district. Some uses have extra rules, like being indoors or not harming the area. It also allows housing with businesses and normal accessory buildings.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Permitted uses

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.

(a) The following uses shall be permitted uses in the CDH district: (1) Adult day care homes. (2) Amusement and recreation facilities, indoor. (3) Apiaries. (4) Art galleries. SUPP. 17 (1-2025) 25-152 ZONING § 25-7-22 (5) Automobile service stations or garages, excluding body and fenderworks, electric tire rebuilding or battery rebuilding and provided that all work is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. (6) Bakeries. (7) Bars, cocktail lounges and night clubs. (8) Bed and breakfast establishments, as permitted under section 25-4-7. (9) Boarding facilities, rooming, or lodging houses. (10) Broadcasting stations or studios (radio and television). (11) Business services. (12) Car washing, provided that the facilities are not detrimental to the character of the district. (13) Commercial parking lots and garages. (14) Crop production. (15) Display rooms for products sold elsewhere. (16) Dwellings, double-family or duplex, with a maximum density of five hundred square feet of land area per rentable unit or dwelling unit. (17) Dwellings, multiple-family, with a maximum density of five hundred square feet of land area per rentable unit or dwelling unit. (18) Dwellings, single-family. (19) Family child care homes. (20) Farmers markets. When the vending activity in a farmers market involves more than just the sale of local fresh and/or raw produce, plant life, fish and local homegrown and homemade products for more than two days a week, the director, at the time of plan approval, shall restrict the hours of use, maintenance and operations and may require improvements as determined appropriate to ensure its compatibility with the existing character of the surrounding area. (21) Financial institutions. (22) Group living facilities. (23) Home occupations, as permitted under section 25-4-13. (24) Hospitals, sanitariums, old age, convalescent, nursing and rest homes. (25) Hotels and apartment hotels with a maximum density of five hundred square feet of land area per rentable unit. (26) Laundries other than those utilizing steam cleaning equipment, provided that the facilities are not detrimental to the character of the district. (27) Manufacturing, processing and packaging, light, provided that the activities are not detrimental to the character of the district. (28) Medical clinics. (29) Meeting facilities, including special events, as permitted under section (30) Model homes, as permitted under section 25-4-8. (31) Modeling agencies. (32) Museums and libraries. (33) Neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tennis courts, swimming pools, and similar neighborhood recreational areas and uses. 25-153 SUPP. 19 (1-2026) (34) Offices. (35) Personal services. (36) Photography and artist studios. (37) Public uses and structures, as permitted under section 25-4-11. (38) Publishing plants for newspapers, books and magazines, printing shops, cartographing and duplicating processes such as blueprinting or photostating. (39) Repair establishments, minor. (40) Restaurants. (41) Retail establishments, provided that they are not detrimental to the character of the district. (42) Schools, business. (43) Schools, photography, art, music, dance or other similar studios or academies. (44) Schools, vocational. (45) Special events. (46) Telecommunication antennas and towers, as permitted under section 25-4-12. (47) Temporary real estate offices, as permitted under section 25-4-8. (48) Theaters, auditoriums and indoor sports arenas. (49) Utility substations, as permitted under section 25-4-11. (b) Residential use in connection with the operation of any permitted use shall be permitted in the CDH district. (c) Buildings and uses normally considered accessory to the above uses shall also be permitted in the CDH district. (1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999; am 2013, ord 13-95, sec 3; am 2021, ord 21-26, sec 13; am 2024, ord 24-65, secs 7 and 10; am 2025, ord 25-55, sec 12; ord 25-66, sec 26.)25-7-22
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗as published Jul 16, 2026our copy taken Aug 21, 2026

Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.

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