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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Based on the complexity of this "unit/count" road trigger, if only this road trigger <br /> were in effect, construction of the Town Center Road could be avoided almost <br /> indefinitely and without regard to completion of all commercial zoning until after the <br /> 450th residential unit was located in certain zoned areas, and subsequent residential and <br /> commercial units then totaled 759 units. <br /> <br /> <br /> The County General Plan: Parker Ranch Requested Deletion of the General Plan <br /> directive that the Parker Ranch Town Center Road be completed. <br /> The County's Subdivision Code provides that subdivisions must be consistent with the <br /> County General Plan. As set forth on page 2, the 2005 County General Plan "Courses of <br /> Action" for South Kohala Transportation section 13.2.5.2(g) specifically provides for <br /> construction of Parker Ranch's Town Center Road. Theoretically Parker Ranch's <br /> subdivision applications should be consistent with this provision of the General Plan , that <br /> paralleled the Town Center Road requirements in Parker Ranch's Rezoning Ordinance. <br /> <br /> Yet, rather than complying with the rezoning ordinance road provision and the <br /> corresponding General Plan provision, sometime in 2005 Parker Ranch instead requested <br /> that the Director of the County Planning Department submit to the Planning Commission <br /> an interim amendment to the 2005 General Plan that would delete this section 13.2.5.2(g) <br /> of the General Plan requiring implementation of Parker Ranch's Town Center Road as <br /> well as the County's connector road to Kawaihae Road. I believe this action by Parker <br /> Ranch to be at odds with Richard Smart's 2020 Plan Town Center Road commitment to <br /> the Waimea Community. Even more surprising is that the Director of the Planning <br /> Department initiated Parker Ranch's proposed General Plan amendment - although <br /> doing so was in effect contrary to the specific terms of Parker Ranch's Rezoning <br /> Ordinance. It would appear that the Planning Director acted as a "pawn" to the will of <br /> Parker Ranch in its capacity as a powerful real estate developer, and without regard to his <br /> official responsibility to the public interest. There was no specific notice to the Waimea <br /> Community and Parker Ranch was not required to submit the justification documentation <br /> required in section 16.2(3) of the General Plan for amendments proposed by private <br /> parties. Only by chance did I find this particular proposed General Plan amendment in <br /> the Planning Department compilation of 2006 Proposed Interim Amendments to the <br /> General Plan. Thankfully, when confronted with this inappropriate accommodation of <br /> Parker Ranch request, the Planning Director withdrew this proposed amendment to the <br /> General Plan. <br /> <br /> Luala'i III Development (with joint venture partner Schuler Homes) <br /> Parker Ranch, and its joint venture partner L.D. Horton -Schuler Homes, as <br /> Kaomalo Ltd, is developing the acreage along the southerly section of the Town Center <br /> Road corridor and along a substantial portion of both Town Center Road phases 1 and 3. <br /> The portion of this Luala'i development located west of the Town Center Road corridor <br /> consists of one Planned Unit Development that was approved for 92 homes in October, <br /> 2001, and three adjoining residential subdivision: Luala'i I, II, and III. Luala'i <br /> Subdivision phases I and II are already being developed and total 136 house lots. At this <br /> time, Parker Ranch is requesting final approval of its Luala'i III subdivision application <br /> <br /> <br /> 8 <br />