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including how much public infrastructure is challenged by recent or anticipated growth in the area, and will increase opportunities for public input into the subdivision and planned unit development review process; and WHEREAS, the council wishes to review and make recommendations on applications for new subdivisions consisting of seven or more lots, and to review and render decisions on applications for new planned unit developments and cluster plan developments consisting of seven or more lots; and WHEREAS, of the 502 subdivision permit applications submitted to the planning department between Januazy 3, 2005 and December 27, 2006, 86 of these permits were for developments consisting of seven or more lots, or approximately 17% of all subdivision applications submitted during this 24-month period; and WHEREAS, the council wishes to add another layer of public and governmental scrutiny to roughly 17% of all applications for new subdivisions, to include those projects consisting of seven or more lots, which have potentially greater impacts on the surrounding community than do small-scale subdivisions; and WHEREAS, the vast majority of subdivision applications for developments consisting of six or fewer lots, or roughly 83% of the total number of applications, would not be impacted by the proposed amendments to the subdivision code and would continue to be processed administratively by the planning depaztment; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that pursuant to section 6-4.2(c) of the Hawaii County Charter 2000 (as amended) and section 25-2- 43(b) of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), the planning director is requested to submit comments and recommendations on the proposed subdivision and zoning code amendments as set forth in the proposed bills for ordinances attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and by reference made a part hereof, or to prepaze similar bills for ordinances to provide for a discretionary permitting process for applications for new subdivisions of seven or more lots, new planned unit developments of seven or mote lots, and new cluster plan developments of seven or more lots, wherein the council reviews and makes recommendations on applications for new subdivisions consisting of seven or more lots and reviews and renders decisions on applications for new planned unit developments and cluster plan developments consisting of seven or more lots; and 4