South Kauai Community Plan Ordinance: Purpose and Scope

This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "South Kaua'i Community Plan Implementing Ordinance." It is adopted:To provide design and development standards in order to implement the detailed planning goals and objectives for the South Kaua'i area, such as providing for appropriately scaled infill development that will support vibrant town cores and a mix of housing types in Kōloa Town, Kalāheo Town, and the Po'ipū Roundabout area;To provide for the housing needs of the district's projected population growth in areas adjacent to existing employment centers in order to create new walkable centers and enhance existing town cores;To establish special planning areas, future growth areas, land uses, and development and design standards to guide and regulate future development;To protect certain physical characteristics found to be of particular public value, as provided in Chapter 8, Article 11, Section 6, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Special Planning Areas); andEstablish exceptions, modifications, or additions to the provisions of Chapter 8, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance) and Chapter 9, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Subdivision Ordinance) in order to more specifically provide for the regulation of land use, subdivision, and development practices within the South Kaua'i Planning District.Nature of the South Kaua'i Community Plan Ordinance. This Article provides the necessary framework and guidelines to direct future development and capital improvements in the South Kaua'i Planning District, whose boundary includes Kōloa, Po'ipū, Kalāheo, 'Ōma'o, and Lāwa'i. Additionally, this Article supplements Chapter 8, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance) and Chapter 9, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Subdivision Ordinance) by regulating use and development standards within the South Kaua'i Special Planning Areas, as identified in the zoning maps attached to Ordinance No. 990, and on file with the Planning Department, County of Kaua'i.The guidelines of this Article are based on the report entitled "South Kaua'i Community Plan" (Planning Commission draft approved in 2014, as amended by the Kaua'i County Council in 2015, and as may be subsequently amended), a booklet whose major components include:The South Kaua'i Community Land Use MapThe South Kaua'i Multimodal Roadway Network MapIllustrative Streetscapes and Roadway Cross-SectionsPolicies and GuidelinesImplementation Action Plan.