§206E-2  Definitions.  As used in thischapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unlessthe context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:

(1)  "Authority" means the Hawaii communitydevelopment authority established by section 206E-3.

(2)  "County" means any county of the State.

(3)  "Local governing body" means the countycouncil.

(4)  "Project" means a specific work orimprovement, including real and personal properties, or any interest therein,acquired, owned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved by theauthority, including a residential project, a redevelopment project, or acommercial project, all as defined herein, or any combination thereof, whichcombination shall hereinafter be called and known as a "multipurposeproject".

(A)  "Residential project" means aproject or that portion of a multipurpose project, including residentialdwelling units, designed and intended for the purpose of providing housing andsuch facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto;

(B)  "Redevelopment project" means anundertaking for the acquisition, clearance, replanning, reconstruction, andrehabilitation or a combination of these and other methods, of an area for aresidential project, for an incidental commercial project, and for otherfacilities incidental or appurtenant thereto, pursuant to and in accordancewith this chapter.  The terms "acquisition, clearance, replanning,reconstruction, and rehabilitation" shall include renewal, redevelopment,conservation, restoration, or improvement, or any combination thereof;

(C)  "Commercial project" means anundertaking involving commercial or light industrial development, whichincludes a mixed use development where commercial or light industrial facilitiesmay be built into, adjacent to, under or above residential units.

(5)  "Project cost" means the total of allcosts incurred by the authority in carrying out all undertakings which it deemsreasonable and necessary for the development of a project including but notlimited to:  studies; surveys; plans; specifications; architectural,engineering, or any other development related services; acquisition of land andany improvement thereon; site preparation and development; construction;reconstruction; rehabilitation; the necessary expenses in administering thechapter; the cost of financing the project; and relocation costs.

(6)  "Public agency" means any office,department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation agency, orinstrumentality of the federal, state, or county government.

(7)  "Public facilities" includes streets,utility and service corridors, and utility lines where applicable, sufficientto adequately service developable improvements in the district, sites forschools, parks, parking garage, sidewalks, pedestrian ways, and other communityfacilities.  "Public facilities" shall also include public highways,as defined by statute, storm drainage systems, water systems, street lightingsystems, off-street parking facilities, and sanitary sewerage systems.

(8)  "Qualified person" includes anyindividual, partnership, corporation or any public agency, possessing thecompetence, expertise, experience, and resources, including financial,personnel and tangible resources, required for the purposes of the project andsuch other qualifications as may be deemed desirable by the authority inadministering the chapter.

(9)  "Real property" means lands,structures, and interests in land, including lands under water and riparianrights, space rights, and air rights and any and all other things and rightsusually included within the term.  Real property also means any and allinterests in such property less than full title, such as easements, incorporealhereditaments and every estate, interest, or right, legal or equitable,including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages, orotherwise. [L 1976, c 153, pt of §1; am L 1979, c 126, §1; am L 1982, c 228,§4; am L 1984, c 21, §1]