ROH §33-1.2
City can make development agreements with developers
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section lets the city and a developer sign a development agreement. The agreement is an official city action. The city's designated agency can negotiate and manage these agreements. If state law later allows voters to challenge such agreements, new ones will follow that law.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — General authorization
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Pursuant to HRS Chapter 46, Part VII, the city may enter into a development agreement with a developer. The agreement may be requested by either the city or by a developer, pursuant to § 33-1.7 .
(b) Pursuant to HRS § 46-131, each development agreement shall be deemed an administrative act of the government body made party to the agreement.
(c) The designated agency is authorized to negotiate, prepare, and administer a development agreement, in accordance with this chapter, with any developer.
(d) If after March 29, 1996,* a statute is enacted by the State that provides that development agreements shall be subject to the exercise of county initiative power, either direct or indirect, or to county referendum, any development agreement entered into after such enactment shall be subject thereto.
Editor’s note:
* “ March 29, 1996” is substituted for “the effective date of this ordinance.”
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