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Honorable James Y Arakakt, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 2 General Plan and the Hawaii State Plan Seaton 205-3 1 states that district boundary amendments involving lands of fifteen acres or less, shall be determmed by the appropriate county land use decision making authority and shall not require consideration by the land use commission pursuant to Section 205-4 The standard of review for a boundary amendment consideration shall be given to the following (a) The extent to which the proposed reclassification conforms to the applicable goals, policies, standards, and courses of action of the General Plan and implementing, ordinances, plans and documents No amendment shall be approved unless tt conforms to the General Plan (b) The extent to which the proposed reclassification conforms to the applicable district standards According to the Land Use Commission Rules, one of the standards for considering an area for urban reclassification states that "In determining urban growth for the next ten years, or in amending the boundary, land contiguous with existing urban areas shall be given more consideration than non- contiguous land, and particularly when indicated for future urban use on state or county general plans " The subJect property does conform to this standard as it is proximate to the already urban subdivisions The subJect property is also contiguous to the proposed Bayview Estates Phase I[, the existing Bayview Estates Phase I, Keauhou Estates, and the Villas at Keauhou Subdivisions urban areas The Urban boundary request also conforms to the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map which designates this area for Urban Expansion Urban Expansion Area allows for a mix of high density, medium density, low density, industrial and/or open designations in areas where new settlements may be desirable, but where the specific settlement pattern and mix of uses have not yet been determined This request is to allow an urban development, a planned low-density residential subdivision Low Density Urban Development is defined as Residential uses at a density of four units per acre and certain neighborhood commercial uses are permitted within this designation The LUPAG Map component of the General Plan is a representation of the document's goals, policies, standards and courses of action It is also a graphic depiction of the physical relaUOnshtp between the vanous land uses The LUPAG Map establishes the basic urban and non-urban form for areas within the County The area under consideration is consistent with the urban form established for this section of the North Kona District as depicted on the LUPAG Map The Kona Regional Plan, adopted by the Planning Commission in 1984, recommends the area for residential four units per acre The applicant's proposal is a single family residential subdivision [t is adJacent to the proposed Bayview Estates Phase II Subdivision The proposed reclassification is for a similar urban land use designation Thus, the requested boundary amendment would be in the direction of fulfilling the low density range plans, in this particular case