HCC §25-7-40
What the Pahoa Village Design District is for and where it applies
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section creates the Pahoa Village Design District to keep Pahoa's small-town feel while allowing shops, offices, cultural activities, and homes. It also lists the exact streets and tax map parcels that are part of the district. The district covers certain roads and specific properties, with a few exceptions.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Purpose and applicability; boundaries
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 PVD (Pāhoa Village Design) District is established to: (1) Reinforce and promote Pāhoa’s role as a regional town center while retaining its rural village feel and identity; (2) Support a diversity of land uses consistent with a compact medium density area, including retail shopping, administrative and professional activities, cultural and artistic activities, other supportive business activities, and a mix of residential uses, capable of serving both village residents and the ever more populous surrounding subdivisions; and (3) Preserve the historical Hawai‘i plantation architectural style that has come to symbolize Pāhoa’s unique sense of place and identity. (b) The PVD district, as used in this chapter, means the area described as: (1) All parcels having frontage on Pāhoa Village Road from the Pāhoa Village Road and Kea‘au-Pāhoa Road intersection and the Pāhoa Village Road and Pāhoa-Kalapana Road intersection; (2) All parcels having frontage on Post Office Road between Pāhoa Bypass Road and Pāhoa Village Road; (3) All parcels having frontage on the west side of Kea‘au-Pāhoa Road between and inclusive of tax map key numbers: 1-5-007:012 and 1-5- 007:080; (4) All parcels having frontage on Kahakai Boulevard, including any extensions of Kahakai Boulevard up to the parcel identified by tax map key number 1-5-008:001, west of Pāhoa Bypass Road; (5) Parcels identified by tax map key numbers: 1-5-005:024, 1-5-006:037, 1-5-006:015, 1-5-003:037 and 1-5-003:046; and (6) All parcels any part of which are designated medium density urban in Exhibit A of Ordinance No. 12-89 amending the general plan land use pattern allocation guide (LUPAG) map, except: (A) That portion of tax map key no: 1-5-002:020 not designated medium density urban in Exhibit A of Ordinance No. 12-89; and (B) Parcels identified by tax map key numbers: 1-5-001:003 and 1-5-008:001. (2015, ord 15-44, sec 4; am 2026, ord 26-56, sec 1.) 25-7-40 UNOFFICIAL ADVANCE SHEET – Updated on August 5, 2026. Contains sec(s) affected since publication of Supp. 20 (7-2026). Official revision to be published in a subsequent republication of the County Code.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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