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Date: 2/3!98 TO: County Planning Department FROM: The Sustainability Committee of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Hawaii Long Range Transportation Plan: Roger Evans, John Luchau (Hawaiian Paradise Park); Kristine Kubat (Clear Runnings); Jon Olson (Puna Community Council); Ron Reilly (Mayor's Bike/Pedestrian Commussion, People Advxating for Trails Hawai'i); David Taylor (President of Puna Community Council and Puna Traffic Safety); Keith Wallis (E Mau Na Ala Hele, Waimea Trails and Greemways); David Skaife (Mayor's BikelPed Advisory Committee): Bonnie Goodell (planner); Bev Byouk (Ocean Vrew). Subject: Input to the First PabNc Meeth~ for the General Phm Update Members of the DOT's Community Advisory Committee (CAC) have been told repeatedly that our input-on thrngs like recognizing and planning for the substandard subdivisions, creation of more two-lane networks tnstead of LA style highways,1and use for fewer and shorter car trips and for encouraging wallung, biking and public trans-is more properly put to the County General Plan. We therefore request the following general improvements to the County General Plan. I. All maps and text must show all anticipated development. Wherever the County is approving budding permits for residential densities, that area must be shown as Urban. Where lot sizes are one acre or larger, but the majonty of the actual use is not farming, it must be shown as mrxed use. This requires a change in the designation and description of most of the buildable lots on the Brg Islamd. ~9T • "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." Calling a house with no farm a fern dwelling, or calling a subdivision with 3,000 quarter-acre lots and ag zoning "orehazds" or "non-conforming subdtvisrons" does not, in the eyes of the law or the eyes of the public make rt so. It merely makes County planning incompetent. The law is clear that the services for which the County is responsible are determined by the actual development and building permits rssued by the County, not the name the County chooses [o call it. • the County does not want to provrde urban services in agricultural zoning, then the County bad the power and legal right to refuse building permits not rn conformance with the zoning or Land Use District requirements. If, however, the County permits development, then that permitted development is the actual land use. It is the County's maps and documents which are non-conforming, not the subdivrsrons. • The State Planning Law, Chapter, Chapter 226, directs General Plans to show all desired development and projected population. It does not set a time horizon. The development the County actually permits in fact determines the expected population.