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Maile David, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawai`i January 09, 2022 Page 6 The proposed PD area is covered by the South Kohala Community Development Plan(SKCDP). Several SKCDP goals,policies, and actions reference resort areas, including directing the development of timeshares to the district's three (3) major destination resorts. Other goals,policies, and actions include: protection of historical, natural, and cultural resources; requiring water conservation measures for new, large scale development projects; ensuring the quality of South Kohala's groundwater and marine resources (including the expansion of water quality monitoring);providing support for water and wastewater facility upgrades;promoting the prohibition of future injection wells in the SMA if wastewater is not treated to an R-1 level of water quality; fostering the preservation of scenic views and landscapes, and conducting all activities and uses with clear environmental stewardship and sustainability methods. While many of the preceding goals,policies, and actions are not explicitly directed at resort areas, they have been incorporated into the Kumu Hou project proposal, and conditions related to the preceding are included in the concurrent SMA Use Permit for the project area. The Zoning Code is one of the tools used to implement the General Plan and is one of the County's primary land use control mechanisms; the Zoning Code sets the various types of uses allowed in a specific zoning districts. In this particular case, the applicant proposes to establish a PD to provide flexibility in the location of land uses without identifying where these uses would be specifically located on the property at this early stage of development. A minimum of 50 acres is required to establish a Project District. The request meets this criterion as "Area B" is approximately 133.8 acres in size. The Zoning Code allows Project District Zoning to include any permitted uses either directly or conditionally allowed in the RS, RD, RM, RCX, CN, CG, CV, or V zoning districts to also be permitted in a PD. The uses proposed throughout the Kumu Hou PD appear to be allowed within the Resort-Hotel (V)zoning district and are consistent with the resort node LUPAG designation. Additionally, while not expressly proposed in the application, the applicant indicated that the project area will invariably have/need retail uses (such as restaurants and shops to service the needs of the guests/residents) and offices to support those uses (such as for the timeshare/recreational activities and the like). Based on the preceding,the Planning Director is adding a condition to this recommended approval that will limit uses in the PD to largely those permitted in the V zoning district, along with golf related facilities, which would otherwise require a separate Use Permit to develop. It should be noted, however, that the concurrent SMA Use Permit for the area only permits the uses articulated in the application, thus any additional uses (e.g., a restaurant,bar, or expanded commercial area), would require an amendment to the SMA Use permit.