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BonnieGoodsll 4908-967-7775 t1r317/01 ~-136 PM L~5/10 Bornue Croode111Botaue Bissen'Suvtaznabihry Comminee re GP DRAFT & Zomng Mazch 8, 2001 4 Date. 213198 TO. County Planning Department FROM: The Sustainability Committee of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Hawazi Long Range Transportation Aan Roger Evans, John Luchau (Hawaiian Paradise Park), Knsune Kubat (Clear Rumm~gs), Jon Olson (Puna Community Council), Ron Reilly' (,Mayor's Bike/Pedestrian Commission, People Advocating for Trails Ilawai'i), David Taylor (President of Puna Commumty Council and Puna Traffic Safety), Keith Wallis (E Mau :Va Ala Hele, Wazmea Trails and Greenways); David Skaife (Mayor's Bike'Ped Advisory Committee), Bonme Goodell (planner); Bev Byouk (Ocean View') Subject Input to the First Public Meetings [or the General Plan i:pdate Members of the DOT's Commumty Advisory Committee (CAC) have been told repeatedly that our input-on things Iike recognizing and plamung for the substandard subdivisions, creation of more two-lane networks instead of L.-4 style highways, land use for fewer and shorter cat tops and for encouraging walktng, 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 building permits for residential densities, that azea must be shown as Urban Where lot sizes are one acre or larger, but the ma~onty of the actual use is not fanning, it must be shown as mined use This regwres a change in the designation and descnptton of most of the buildable lots on the Big Island Why' • "If it walks lile a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck " Calling a house with no farm a fans dwelling, or calking a subdivision with 3,000 quaRer-acre lots and ag zoning `orchards" or "non-conforming subdivisions" does not, in the eyes of the law or the eyes of the public make it so It merely makes County planning incompetent The law is cleaz that the services for which the County is responsible are determined by the actual development and building permits issued by the County, not the name the County chooses to call it • If the County does not want to provide urban services in agncultutal zomng, then the County had the power and legal nght to refuse building permits not in 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 subdivisions. • 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 The GP must