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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawaii Page 9 The Change of Zone Request from an Open (0) and Residential and Agriculture 1 -acre (RA -la) to a Village Commercial (CV -10) zoning district does not conform the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map for this area, which is designated as Open and Rural. The Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map component of the General Plan (GP) is a representation of the document's goals and policies to guide the coordinated growth and development of the County. The LUPAG map reflects a graphic depiction of the physical relationship among the various land uses and establishes the basic urban and non -urban form for areas within the County. This proposed request to change the zoning of the subject parcel to CV -10 does not conform with the General Plan LUPAG map, which designates most of the property as open (o) and a smaller portion as rural (rur). While the open designation is typically reserved for parks and other recreational areas, historic sites, and open shoreline areas, the rural designation includes existing subdivisions that have a significant residential component. These subdivisions may contain small farms, wooded areas, and open fields as well as residences. Allowable uses within the rural zoning district may include commercial facilities that serve the residential and agricultural uses in the area, along with community and public facilities. The rural zoning designation does not necessarily mean that these areas should be further subdivided into smaller lots as most lack the basic infrastructure (i.e., water, sewer) necessary to allow further subdivision. The proposed request to change the parcel to a CV -10 zoning district would allow for numerous permitted uses that are inconsistent with uses commonly associated with the open and rural LUPAG designations. It is also evident that the LUPAG designations for the previous Waikoloa Highlands project indicate there is a cogent relationship between the rural and open zoning designations with that of the current Residential and Agricultural 1 -acre (RA -la) and Open (0) County zoning of the subject parcels where a clear consistent intent in land use design is represented. The applicant has claimed that given the broad -brush nature of the General Plan LUPAG map designations, the subject parcel should be considered consistent with the medium density urban (mdu) zoning designation, which is located across Pua Melia Street approximately 360 feet west of the of the most western tip of the subject parcel. The Planning Department provided a determination on the GP LUPAG designation for the proposed property by letter dated June 3, 2019, stating the General Plan LUPAG map specifically identifies the subject property as being within the open (ope) and rural (rur) designations, which follows the County zoning for the property. The adjoining property to the west and the area north of the property across Waikoloa Road are situated within the extensive agriculture (ea) GP LUPAG map designation. The nearest area within the medium density urban (mdu) GP LUPAG Map designation is located further west across Pua Malia Street, which is over one thousand (1,000) feet away along Waikoloa Road, where access from the proposed subdivision would occur. Even though the GP LUPAG map boundaries are broad brush, the property cannot be interpreted to be within the medium density urban designation given its distant location.