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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 6 fully develop the range of services and activities that can be provided in Hilo. Since 1992, the County Council has approved commercial zoning requests in those areas for uses which include restaurants, offices, medical and dental facilities, and other retail uses. In 1992 by Ordinance No. 92 115, a major portion of the Waiakea Houselots area was redesignated from Medium Density Urban to Low Density Urban due to the residents' concerns relating to the encroachment of industrial and commercial uses into the houselot area. The redesignated lands are within the bounds of Hualani Street, Mililani Street, Lanikaula Street and both sides of Kalanikoa Street. At the northern end of the Waiakea Houselots in the vicinity of the Hoolulu Park Complex, one half of the block area bounded by Mililani-Piilani-Kalanikoa- Hualani Streets is designated Medium Density Urban Development. Medium Density Urban designation allows for village and neighborhood commercial and residential and related functions (3-story commercial; residential--up to 35 units per acre). This same area has been zoned General Commercial (CG-7.5) since the adoption of the City of Hilo Zone Map in 1968. Therefore, this present CG zoning designation is not consistent with the LUPAG Map designation, which should be High Density Urban designation. Within the area bounded by Kekuanaoa-Mililani-Piilani-Kalanikoa Streets, most of the existing single family residences average about 30-50 years in age. Multiple Family Residential uses and commercial activities have been developing from Piilani Street and moving southerly. Since 1981, retail stores, a bank institution, offices and restaurant establishments have been constructed and/or established in this area. The Atebara Potato Chip Factory is located along the east side of Manono Street, one street to the west of the subject property. The factory has been in operation since 1942, prior to the adoption of the Zoning Code. Therefore, the potato chip factory continues to operate as a nonconforming use. It should be noted also that according to Real Property Tax records, less than half of the residential lots are landowner-occupant for this same area. As such, the residences (existing and/or proposed) have been and are moving toward primarily for rental units. The Hilo Community Development Plan (CDP), adopted by Resolution in 1975, is intended to provide short and middle range implementation strategies for the goals, policies and land use pattern presented in the General Plan. The Hilo CDP recommended that portion of the Waiakea Houselots be retained in single family residential uses. However, it also recommended additional multiple family residential uses toward and along the westward side of the Manono Street-Hinano Street-Lanikaula