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Hawaii Community Development Authority Design Team: Torti Gallas and Partners, Belt Collins, + Lamphier Gregory

Hawaii Community Development Authority

Chapter 217, Hawaii Administrative Rules Effective Date: November 11, 2011


• Regulating Development to Produce a Specific Urban Form

• Promotes Compact Urban Create Predictable Public Realm

• Encourage Compact Design and Promote Walkable Communities

• Active Street Scapes – Frontages Tailored to Fit

– Build To Lines

• Parking to the Back

• Mass Transit Options

Euclidean Zoning Form Based Code • Everyday Uses are

Segregated From Each Others

• Similar Land Uses are Grouped Together

• Uses are Grouped Together

– Shops

– Housing

– Industry

• Puts Everyday Uses Together

• Leads to Increased Traffic as People Must Get out of their Cares

Goal - Compact Urban Form and Walkable Communities


Traditional form-based rules establish

transects ranging from ‘natural’, ‘rural’,

‘suburban’, ‘general urban’, ‘urban

center’ and ‘urban core’

Form based Rules

Kakaako Community Development

District Mauka Area falls within the

‘urban center’/’urban core’ transect

with a variety of sub-districts. The

sub-districts or neighborhoods are the

basis of the regulating plan.


• Emphasis on urban form

• Pedestrian oriented streets

• Walkable blocks – no superblocks

• Mix of uses; less emphasis on land use

• Transit options

Mauka Area Rules – Form based


Building form, scale, character, building placement

designed at human scale.


Emphasis on the interaction of the street and buildings


Enhanced sidewalks, landscaping, and sidewalk amenities


Building heights and orientation to preserve Mauka and Makai views


Mauka Rules Provisions

• District Wide Provisions:

• Neighborhoods

• Use based on neighborhood character

• Development Standards

• Parks, Civic Spaces and Open Space

• Great Streets – street trees & pedestrian realm

• Thoroughfare Design

• View Preservation

• Building Form:

• Heights and Setbacks

• Building Placement

• Building and Frontage Types

• Sustainability – Green building requirement


District Wide Provisions:

Regulating Plan - Neighborhoods


Allowable Uses:


Development Standards:


Parks and Open Space


Civic Spaces:

Park

Green

Square

Pocket Park

Plaza

Playground

Courtyard


Street Trees


Thoroughfare Plan


Thoroughfare Plan – Street Hierarchy

Boulevard

Avenue

Street

Service Street

Alley


Pedestrian Treatment:


View Preservation – Mauka-Makai Views


Maximum Height

Urban Form:


Building Placement:


Building Types:

Side Yard

Townhouse

Duplex / Triplex / Quadplex

Front Yard

Flex / Loft Industrial Barn


Building Types:

Courtyard Urban Block

Lei Building Podium High Rise


Frontage Types:

Lanai and Front Yard Dooryard

Stoop

Forecourt

Shopfront

Chinatown


Frontage Types:

Terrace Front Raised Shopfront

Gallery

Raised Terrace Front Arcade

Kakaako Frontage


Next Steps - TOD Overlay

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