COM 0110.004 2002-2004 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

Honorable James Y.Arakaki and Members of the County Council Hawaii County Council Page 4 February 18, 2003 amendments suggested by the Council that the Planning Director had "initiated". See Attachment "14". Draft 5 was accompanied by a LUPAG map that kept the subject property as "Low Density". The two ways of looking at this are: (1) that the subject property was included already in amendment no. 11, and that everything that happened afterwards was superfluous; or (2) that because the Planning Director refused to initiate the change later requested by the Council, and the Council then enacted the General Plan without it, the subject property was not changed to "High Density". In explaining to staff what had happened in the General Plan revisions, the Planning Director, in 1990, included the document explaining that the change to the subject property had not been initiated. Attachment "15". (This letter actually refers to Attachment "12".) In 2000, the owner's representative wrote to the Planning Director asking for confirmation that the subject property was "High Density". Attachment "16". The Department answered affirmatively, refemng only to the events before the Council began considering the General Plan revisions. Attachment "17". I have also included a letter written in 2000 by Takashi Domingo, who had been chair of the Planning Committee of the Council, stating that he had been under the impression that the subject property was included as "High Density" when the General Plan was revised in 1989. Attachment "18" For the sake of completeness, I should mention that the current General Plan revisions show the subject property being changed to "High Density" in the new LUPAG, as part of B-14 in South Hilo. This change began before the current county administration but I kept it in to conform the new map to the previous letter by the Director that it was already included.