kauai house buying: Kauai Building Codes: non-conforming versus illegal. - 04/05/16 11:26 AM
Non Conforming vs. Illegal, What’s the difference?
 
Upon inspection I found 2 kitchens in this single famly zoned house. 
At a Kauai broker caravan a couple years ago I toured a house in Wailua Homesteads where the listing broker explained that the apartments located in the backyard “sheds” were non-conforming. “Excuse me” I said “there is nothing nonconforming about these units, they are illegal”.
 
The term non-conforming tends to be over used in Kauai real estate. (Probably because it sounds better then illegal). Non-conforming generally refers to structures that do not conform to current zoning laws but were built prior to the Kauai Comprehensive … (3 comments)

 
Julie A. Black, CLHMS, CRS, GRI, Realtor, Broker (KAUAI DREAMS REALTY Kauai Real Property Specialist)

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Kapaa, HI

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