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Ms. Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd May 15, 2001 Page 2 to be recommended to the Commission. On February 15, 1989, the Council appears to have forwarded the request to the new Planning Director, Duane Kanuha. However, the request does not appear to have been included in the final changes to the LUPAG map. Prior amendments placing the Prince Kuhio Plaza area into high density identified Puainako Street as the boundary. All concerned concede that the LUPAG map was not formally changed to include the subject property in the high density area. You have essentially asked whether Planning Director Lyman's interpretive statements have the legal effect of including the subject property in the high density area, and if so, under what authority. The short but somewhat superficial answer is "no," Mr. Lyman's interpretation does not change the LUPAG map. The LUPAG map, consistent with general plan history, graphically seems to show Puainako street as the boundary between the Prince Kuhio Plaza high density area and the subject lower density area. If you assume the foregoing, according to the LUPAG map the subject property was and remains on the lower density side of Puainako Street. As Councilman Tyler aptly noted, "you could give this to a grade school person and they could tell you exactly where this property is." . Apri13, 2001 minutes, pp. 9-10. However, does this necessarily mean that an upzoning of this property could not "conform to and implement the general plan" as required by Charter Section 3-15(c)? Not necessarily. That is a decision as to which the Planning Director may advise the Council, and which the Council must ultimately make. This is because the LUPAG map was not meant to describe in fine detail what specific lots were immutably predestined to specific designations. T'he General Plan p.79, under "Proposed Land Use Pattern" states: "There are reo universal standards for determining the amount of land needed in the future for each land use or activity located within an area. Estimates can be made, however, of the future land use acreage allocation for each use. T'lae laud use pattern is a brmad, flexible design intended to guide the direction and quality of future developments in a ,coordinated and rational manner. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation. Guide Map. indicates the general d®cati®aa ®f vari®us laud uses i~ relati®a to each other.