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GOODSILL ANDERSON QLT, IN & STEEL A LIMITED LIABILITY LAW PARTNERSHIP LLP Planning Department Hawaii County Council June 27, 2002 Page Two Waikoloa Land and Cattle Co. ("WLCC") is the owner of TMK: (3) 7-1-003:10. This property is a 26 acre vacant piece of land immediately abutting the existing 1350 -acre Waikoloa Beach Resort. This property currently bears a Hawaii County General Plan designation of Conservation, and is zoned "Open" by the County of Hawaii. It falls within the State Land Use Conservation District, Resource Subzone. The adjoining Waikoloa Beach Resort has a General Plan designation of Resort. For your convenience, we enclose copies of maps showing the location of this property in relation to the Waikoloa Beach Resort. As part of the comprehensive General Plan review and planning process initiated by the Planning Director, WLCC submitted requests to the Planning Department and the Planning Commission that this property be included as part of the Waikoloa Beach Resort and that the General Plan designation for this particular property be changed to Resort. Copies of the materials submitted in connection with this request are included herewith. During its hearing process the Planning Commission recommended that WLCC's request be approved. However, the Planning Director's proposal dated November 30, 2001, did not incorporate this request. The Hawaii County General Plan is a long range comprehensive development for the Island of Hawaii. The revisions proposed by the Planning Commission and the Planning Director to the Hawaii County General Plan include a recommendation that the Waikoloa Beach Resort, along with the adjoining Mauna Lani Resort, would be assigned a new "Resort Node" designation. This new "Resort Node" designation is intended to "include a mixture of uses such as hotels, condominium -hotels (condominiums developed and/or operated as hotels), single family and multiple family residential units, golf courses and other typical resort recreational facilities, resort commercial complexes and other supporting services." The Resort Node designation includes major and intermediate resorts. This proposed designation appropriately identifies Waikoloa Beach Resort as a self-contained resort destination that provides basic and support facilities for the needs of the entire development. We are requesting that as part of the comprehensive revision to the Hawaii County General Plan, TMK (3) 7-1-003:10 be included as part of the larger and adjacent Resort Node designation assigned to the existing Waikoloa Beach and Mauna Lani