Rules for creating design guidelines for country town business districts

A. Each small town within Maui County that incorporates country town business districts shall establish design guidelines and standards. B. Review of country town business district design guidelines and standards by the appropriate planning commission shall include: 1. Review and comment by the urban design review board; 2. An advertised public meeting in the respective country town; and 3. A public hearing held by the appropriate planning commission. The director of planning shall publish the notice of the date, time, place, and subject matter of the public hearing once in a newspaper printed and issued at least twice weekly in the County and which is generally circulated throughout the County at least thirty calendar days prior to the date of the public hearing. C. In developing site design guidelines and standards, consideration shall be given to functional and spatial relationships with surrounding uses, and landscape planting in the aesthetic continuity of surrounding sites. D. In developing architectural design guidelines and standards, consideration shall be given to: the existing variety of form and massing of elements; the size and proportions of surrounding structures; the predominant directional expression of nearby buildings; the articulation of main building entrances; the roof forms and composition of structures found in the area; the recurrent alteration of wall areas with door and window elements in facades; and the building materials, texture, and color schemes of surrounding buildings. E. The design guidelines and standards shall be adopted by resolution by the council. (Ord. No. 4153, § 2, 2014)