Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-4 – Zoning
Small wireless facilities and associated modified or replaced utility poles subject to the height limits in section right of way for small wireless facilities and utility poles” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2022″ statecd=”HI”>206N-5(c), shall be classified as permitted uses and shall not be subject to zoning review or zoning approval if they are deployed:
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-4
- Right of way: means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, utility easement, or similar property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Small wireless facilities: means a wireless facility or other facility providing communications service that meets one or both of the following qualifications:
(1) Each communications service provider's antenna can fit within an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume; or
(2) All other equipment associated with the communications service facility, whether ground- or pole-mounted, that is cumulatively no more than twenty-eight cubic feet in volume; provided that the following types of associated ancillary equipment shall not be included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation box, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
- Wireline backhaul: means the transport of communications data or other electronic information by wire from wireless facilities to a communications network. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206N-2
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to modify existing permitting processes for the placement of wireline backhaul in the right of way.