§302A-1607 - Impact fee: construction cost component – determining the cost per unit.
    [§302A-1607] Impact fee: construction cost component – determining the cost per unit. (a) The construction cost component of the school impact fees shall be calculated using the following factors:
    (1) For new school construction, the cost per student for each school type (elementary, middle or intermediate, and high school) is based on the ten-year average construction of a new school facility using the Honolulu assessment district in 2006 as the base. Costs for construction completed earlier than 2006 shall be escalated to 2006 using the engineering news-record construction cost index;
    (2) For expansion of existing school facilities, the cost per student for each school type (elementary, middle or intermediate, and high school) is based on the ten-year average construction of whatever components are required to expand the school using the Honolulu assessment district in 2006 as the base;
    (3) The cost per student in other assessment districts shall be the cost per student in the Honolulu assessment district multiplied by the appropriate cost factor in subsection (c). At least every three years, the department shall update the cost per student based on the construction of a new permanent school facility, and present the written analysis to the board for review; and
    (4) Student generation rates, as defined in section 302A‑1602.
    (b) The student generation rate for each school type (elementary, middle or intermediate, and high school) shall be multiplied by the cost per student for each school type (elementary, middle or intermediate, and high school) to determine the cost/unit in the development.
    (c) The State shall be divided into the following twenty-six geographically limited cost districts:
    Cost District     School District        Cost Factor
    Honolulu          Honolulu               1.00
    Ewa               Leeward/Central        1.00
    Wahiawa           Central                1.05
    Waialua           Central                1.10
    Koolaupoko        Windward               1.00
    Koolauloa         Windward               1.00
    Waianae           Leeward                1.10
    Hilo              Hawaii                 1.15
    Puna              Hawaii                 1.20
    Kona              Hawaii                 1.20
    Hamakua           Hawaii                 1.20
    South Kohala      Hawaii                 1.20
    North Kohala      Hawaii                 1.25
    Pohakuloa         Hawaii                 1.25
    Kau               Hawaii                 1.30
    Wailuku           Maui                   1.15
    Makawao           Maui                   1.25
    Lahaina           Maui                   1.30
    Hana              Maui                   1.35
    Molokai           Molokai                1.30
    Lanai             Lanai                  1.35
    Lihue             Kauai                  1.15
    Koloa             Kauai                  1.20
    Kawaihau          Kauai                  1.20
    Waimea            Kauai                  1.25
    Hanalei           Kauai                  1.25
    (d) At least every three years, and concurrent with any update of the costs per student, the department shall update the revenue credits and present the written analysis to the board for review. The calculation of revenue credits shall be reviewed and calculated recognizing that the impact fee shall be set at one hundred per cent of the fair market value of the land and ten per cent of the total school construction cost.
    (e) The construction cost component of the impact fees per dwelling unit shall be ten per cent of the amounts calculated according to the following formula:
         Cost per dwelling unit from [subsection (b)] minus any amount by which the revenue credit per dwelling unit from subsection (d) exceeds ninety per cent of the per unit construction cost.
    (f) The amount of the fee shall be increased from the date it was determined to the date it is paid using the engineering news-record construction cost index, or an equivalent index if that index is discontinued.
    (g) Any new residential development shall be required to obtain a written agreement between the owner or developer of the property and the department, under which the owner or developer has agreed to a time specified for payment, for its school impact fee construction cost component prior to the issuance of the building permit. [L 2007, c 245, pt of §2]