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Honorable K. Angel Pilago, Chair and Members of the Committee on Planning County of Hawaii Committee on Planning Page 2 July 17, 2006 this study and a recommendation to the Planning Commission, which reviews the proposal and eventually makes its recommendation to the Council. The Council then acts upon the amendment. Neither the Planning Director nor the Planning Commission can block an amendment proposed by the Council. Once the Council passes the resolution asking for the study, the amendment itself will eventually come back to the Council for its action. 2. History of the General Plan and this property. The 1989 LUPAG map, which is attached to this letter as Map 1, showed "resort" areas, and an "alternate urban expansion area", on the State land near Honokohau Harbor. Most of the area was, however, designated "Open", as shown on Map 1. The "resort" areas were set back a considerable distance from the shoreline. The text of the General Plan referred to an "Intermediate" resort at Kealakehe. In 2001, I proposed the deletion of this resort designation in the comprehensive General Plan review, and this change was adopted with the new General Plan in 2005. The current LUPAG map for the area is attached as Map 2. There is currently a set of Planning Director-initiated interim amendments before the Council that includes a further proposed change to this area. This would change much of the "Open" area to "Alternate Urban Expansion" This proposed amendment is shown on Map 3. This amendment was intended to facilitate further commercial and harbor-related industrial development around an expanded small boat harbor. It differs from the amendment being considered by the Council in Res. 383-06 in that it would not allow the resort component. A resort development would require a "Resort" or "Resort Node" designation in the LUPAG map, and should be listed in the resort areas on Table 14-5. 3. State/DHHL jurisdiction. The ownership of the area is split between the State (under the jurisdiction of the DLNR) and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, with DHHL having generally the more mauka lands. See Map 4. The State transferred the portion owned by DHHL to the DHHL in 1994. The significance of this split ownership is that for the DLNR lands, under H.R.S. sec. 171-41(a), leases for "commercial, industrial and other business uses" must be "consistent with county zoning requirements." The State property is currently zoned "Open" and should be rezoned to be used for commercial or other business uses, included a resort. In turn, such rezoning must be consistent with the General Plan. On DHHL property, however, the County has a Memorandum of Agreement with the