Definitions for housing rules

Whenever used in this chapter and in title 19 of this code, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: "Affordable housing" means long-term residential developments to be sold or rented for a ten-year period within the price range established by the director for persons or families whose incomes are identified as one hundred forty percent or less of the area median income for the county as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States of America. The term "affordable housing" includes persons or families within the following income groups: A. "Very low income" which are those earning fifty percent or less of the area median income; B. "Lower income" which are those earning more than fifty percent but not more than eighty percent of the area median income; C. "Moderate income" which are those earning more than eighty percent but not more than one hundred twenty percent of the area median income; and D. "Above-moderate income" which are those earning more than one hundred twenty percent but not more than one hundred forty percent of the area median. "Affordable housing project" means a long-term residential development of ten or more dwelling units in which fifty percent or more of the dwelling units of a development shall be marketed as affordable housing in accordance with the following: 1. That not less than ten percent of the dwelling units of the development shall be marketed within the price range established by the director for persons or families whose incomes are identified as eighty percent or less of the area median income for the county as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States of America; and 2. That not more than twenty percent of the dwelling units of the development shall be marketed within the price range established by the director for persons or families whose incomes are identified as more than one hundred twenty percent but not more than one hundred forty percent of the area median income for the county as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States of America. "Applicant" means an individual, a family, or an agent who submits an application for housing or for an affordable housing project to the department. "Application" means a written request filed by an applicant for a county housing project or for an affordable housing project pursuant to the policies prescribed herein. "County" means the County of Maui. "County council" means Maui County council. "County housing project" means any housing project developed by the county pursuant to state statute, federal law or county ordinance to supply, for sale or rental, housing units or lots in the County of Maui. "County housing unit" means any dwelling unit or lot, including but not limited to, a lot, house, apartment unit and condominium unit in a county housing project. "Department" means the department of housing. "Development" means the erection of one or more buildings or structures or a subdivision of land into two or more lots. "Director" means the director of housing. "Family" means two or more persons related by blood, marriage or operation of law. "Mayor" means the mayor of the County of Maui. "Permanent resident" means a person or family whose primary place of residence is located within the County of Maui. "Permanent resident alien" means an individual who has been issued an Alien Registration Receipt Card by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice. "State" means the State of Hawaiʻi. ( Ord. No. 5676 , §§ 5, 6, 13, 2024; Ord. 1967 § 1 (part), 1990: Ord. 1336 §§ 1 (part) and 2 (part), 1983)