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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: September 19, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 1033Bi11 No. 328 PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa TIME: 2:30 p.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 328, reports as follows: Bill No. 328, transmitted by Council Vice Chair Virginia Isbell via Communication No. 1033, dated August 23, 2006, amends the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, As Amended) by adding a new chapter relating to concurrency. Bill No. 328 adds requirements to the County Code which attempt to accommodate for impacts of new development. Bill No. 328 provides for the establishment of County-wide level of service standards for public roads, public water, public wastewater, public pazks, solid waste management, police protection, and fire protection. Bill No. 328 also provides for a concurrency management system to ensure that the County public facilities and services needed to support new development are in place concurrent with the impacts of that development. Additionally, Bill No. 328 provides for the preparation of a public facilities improvement plan to fund and maintain County-wide levels of service. Bill No. 328 requires the Planning Director to determine the acceptable level of service standards for public facilities within one hundred and eighty (180) days from the effective date of the bill. Bill No. 328 requires the Finance Director to identify the public facilities which are necessary to meet General Plan requirements, to identify potential funding sources for the necessary capital improvements, and to prepare a public facilities improvement plan within one hundred and eighty (180) days from the effective date of the bill. Bill No. 328 requires developers to ensure that capital improvements required to meet the adopted level of service standards aze available concurrent with the impacts of their development. At the September 19, 2006 Planning Committee meeting public testimony was presented by the following persons: Anika Glass of Waimea stated that both Bill Nos. 328 and 329 should be forwarded through the process of review by the Planning Commission and Planning Department and noted that she fully supports the process. Charles Flaherty of Kona testified that it was a mistake for the Council to have deleted Bills 318 & 319 and requested that Bills 318 and 319 be reintroduced and combined with Bills 328 and 329 introduced by Council Vice Chair Isbell. Council Member Jacobson encouraged Mr. Flaherty that should Bill 328 pass and in fact be referred, that Mr. Flaherty follow through within the Planning Commission process to raise the issues and concerns expressed by him today. PC Report No.lll