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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawaii Page 9 Based on the preceding, the Director feels that the requested time extension and other amendment requests without any trackable benchmarks would support the continuation of a speculative entitlement of the subject property for the purpose of resale. Based on the Kona Community Development Plan, which was approved with a tremendous amount of community input and involvement and to achieve consistency with the broad goals of the General Plan and the more specific regional goals identified in the Kona Community Development Plan, the Planning Director does not believe retention of the current zoning is appropriate in this area and is recommending that the applicant(s) pursue a State Land Use Boundary amendment for the remaining two adjacent properties and submit a Change of Zone to a Project District for the approximately 60 -acre area to establish the Kahului-Puapua`a Village Neighborhood Transit -Oriented Development. Based on the preceding findings, the Planning Director recommends that an unfavorable recommendation for the applicant's amendments to Conditions B, C, D, E, F, H, I, U, V, X, Z, and BB of Ordinance No. 05-115 be forwarded to the County Council. We have also enclosed copies of the Background Report, Planning Director's Recommendation, Powerpoint presentation, numerous correspondences from the Applicant's Consultant Sidney Fuke, Planning Department August 13, 2020 letter, email testimonies, transcript of the hearings held on February 20, 2020 and June 18, 2020. The draft transcript of the hearing on August 20, 2020 will be provided under separate cover for your information. Sincerely, Sept. 7, 2020 Nancy Carr Smith, Chair Leeward Planning Commission LPuaaAREZ05-0251pc2 Enclosures cc: Mr. Sidney Fuke, Planning Consultant Department of Public Works Department of Water Supply John Mukai Esq., Corporation Counsel