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Director Darrow Recommended Amendments to Final Recommended Draft General Plan <br />2045 (02-18-2025) <br />"University (UNI)" <br />Public university, including ancillary public uses, residential, and support commercial uses. <br />Compatible Zoning may include UNV. <br />"Resort (RES)" <br />Uses include a mix of visitor -related uses such as hotels, condominium hotels (condominiums <br />developed and/or operated as hotels), single-family and multiple -family residential units, golf <br />courses and other typical resort recreational facilities, resort commercial complexes, and other <br />support services. Compatible Zoning may include V. <br />"Rural (RU)" <br />Situated outside of UGAs. Except where noted, these areas should retain their rural character <br />with low -density residential development, supporting small-scale commercial development, and <br />agricultural land uses. Rural areas should not be targeted with the development of major public <br />infrastructure or the extension of public sewer service except where a documented health, safety, <br />and/or welfare condition warrants such an expansion. Dwelling density up to 4 units p aere ] <br />Compatible Zoning may include RA FA, A, OPEN. <br />"Productive Agriculture (PA)" <br />Lands with better potential for sustained high agricultural yields because of soil type, climate, <br />topography, or other factors. (5-acre minimum lot size) Productive agricultural lands were <br />determined by including the following lands: <br />• Lands outside of UGAs identified as "Important Agricultural Lands" on the 2005 General <br />Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide maps. <br />• Lands outside of UGAs identified in the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of <br />Hawaii (ALISH) classification system as "Prime" or "Unique". <br />• Lands outside of UGAs classified by the Land Study Bureau's Soil Survey Report as <br />Class B "Good" soils. (There are no Class A lands on the Island of Hawaii) Lands <br />classified as at least "fair" for two or more crops, on an irrigated basis, by the USDA <br />Natural Resource Conservation Service's study of suitability for various crops. <br />• In North and South Kona, the "coffee belt", is a continuous band defined by elevation, <br />according to input from area farmers and the 2020 Update to the Hawaii Statewide <br />Agricultural Land Use Baseline Report. <br />• State agricultural parks. <br />[Dwelling > Y rer o <br />h additienal may be allow with pen:nitted <br />additienal f &m dwei ins] Compatible Zoning ma_y include FA, A. <br />3 <br />