Isn't Waimanalo zoned agricultural/farming/residential? There are a number of companies who have moved in and, if the above is true, violate the zoning ordinance. On Kaulukanu Street, there is an area where a number of trucks and construction equipment are stored. It clearly is not a farm. Waimanalo not zoned
‘light industrial,’ but ...On Mooiki Street, there is a garbage pickup company whose trucks make a racket each morning. They park their trucks and trailers on the street and store mounds of dirt on city property. There's also Unisyn and Job Corps. Is Waimanalo becoming a light industrial area by default?
The answer is long and involved and, regarding specific charges, can't be answered without details, said Loretta Chee, deputy director, city Department of Land Utilization.
Chee said to call the city Building Department, 523-4276, with addresses and inspectors will look into suspected zoning violations. The department is the enforcement arm for DLU.
Waimanalo is "a real mixed community," but one where "there is no zoning for light industrial," Chee said. However, the city has issued conditional use permits that allow activities "that might be considered by some people to be light industrial," she said.
Some background: Agriculture 1 is prime ag land, mostly limited to agriculture and related activities. Agriculture 2 allows such activities as aquaculture, game preserves, kennels, livestock grazing, telecommunications antennae and "minor" utility installations.
Other uses might be allowed, conditionally, such as minor composting, outdoor recreational facilities, sawmills and storage and sale of feed and seed. These Type One uses are approved/disapproved administratively.
Permit requests for Type Two activities require public hearings and include major composting, group living facilities, helistops and waste disposal.
The state might also require special use permits of its own.
Unisyn, a biowaste company, began by processing animal waste from an adjacent dairy, but "expansion has put them into another category," requiring a permit, Chee said. It has been fined $50 a day since November 1995, but is trying to get a state special use permit. If it gets that, it must then obtain a city permit.
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