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• MCINNIS: Good afternoon, my name is Mac McInnis. I live in the Kona Orchard subdivision here in Kailua-Kona. There appears to be contradictory comments between the Planning Department's report on the parcel in question and the Kona Community Development Plan. The Kona Community Development Plan was ruled on by Judge Ronald Ibarra on April 25, 2013, as legal and enforceable. All of his parcel, the 14.9 acres-14.96 acres is not entirely within the Kona urban area. Half of this parcel is within the urban area. The other half is in the Kona rural area and is designated as improvement [sic] agricultural lands. I didn't write the Kona Community Development Plan, okay, I'm just repeating what's in it. It's shown on this map with the red line running right through the middle of the parcel. This LUPAG map, Land Use Planning Allocation Guide was used back in 2011. It shows the parcel in question as being entirely in the urban expansion area. I tried to find this map in the Kona Community Development Plan, and I couldn't find it. It doesn't exist. If it's in there, I'd like for somebody to please show it to me. What I did find was five maps all showing the delineation line between the rural boundary and the urban boundary. The first one is the official land use map, and it shows where the red line is that divides this piece of property. The second map, again is all part of the Kona Community Development, is the General Plan LUPAG map. The third map is the generalized LUPAG map. The fourth map is the generalized zoning map. And the fifth map is the concurrency zone map. Our five communities, Pualani Estates, Heights of Hualalai, Sugar Cane Lane, Kona Orchids, and Hualalai Colony went through this issue back in 2011. The citizens heard every comment from the assistant Planning Director at that time, right on down the line, and every imaginable excuse or reason why the red line delineating this property and rural district from the urban district was not really there. It's there. It's there and this critical policy statement that the County Council made back in 2008 is that rezoning for land outside of the Kona urban boundary, outside of the red line, is prohibited. That's stated in the Kona Community Development Plan under the land use section. Policy LU- 3.8 Rezoning Outside of Urban and Rural TODs and Outside of the General Plan LUPAG Urban Area. Thank you for your time. VITOUSEK: Thank you. Thank you. Any other public testifiers? Okay. At this point we will call the applicant. Oh, we'll do a motion to close public testimony for this agenda item. [Commissioner Franco raised her hand.] 8 EXHIBIT F