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The GP must either show build-out of permitted land use or show how the development rights will be withdrawn. • The Planning Director has verbally committed to making this basic change. II. Apply the County's own Land Zoning Bank policy for projecting future subdivision and zoning needs where the eusting inventory of buildable parcels is insufficient for the nett five to ten years, based on actual use as descnbed in paragraph 1. • The Land Zoning Bank is a prescribed paR of community development plans. [ts funCLOn is to inventory the available vacant land in each zoning classification and then determine if there is sufficient available land to meet the development needs for the nett S 10 years. Only if there is insufficient vacant land in a given zoning classification does the Land Zomng Bank allocate a "fund" of "zoning acres" that may be drawn upon to itpzone in that area. if there is ample vacant inventory, no rezoning should occur. This function, if it is to function at all, must be reflected in the GP. The County end the State (in their Boundary analyses), have both made a mockery of this principle by assuming that, for instance in Puna, 16,000 parcels, each one-half-acre or less in size, do not count as existing inventory of bmldable residential parcels because they are zoned for agriculture. Additional residential subdivisions are thereby justified. 111. The GP must plan locations of parks, fire stations, police stations, stores and other daily commerce, employment, waste disposal, public water, utility systems and transportation links for all anticipated development shown as a result of compliance with I and II. The County must require the State to provide, for the GP, all the schools, state parks and other state facilities. ~y9 • HRS Chapter 226 and the function of planning require this. Planning accomplishes the purpose of health, safety, and management of the public purse by anticipating needs in time to make arrangements for them at the lowest possible public cost. Waiting to identify needed public lands until pnvate property must be condemned is contradictory to the function of planning. • It is not fair to property owners for them to have to invest in their private property while the threat constantly hangs over them of condemnation for public use. This threat occurs when government creates development rights that will require public infrastructure and services, but fails to plan for those public land needs. IV. Provide within the GP review a process for all communities to choose between two d4fferent development styles: suburban sprawl or compact "livable" communities. Provide realistic descriptions of the two options: including infrastructure, environmental