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Honorable K. Angel Pilago, Chair and Members of the Committee on Planning COMMITTEE ON PLANNING Page 5 May 14, 2007 From the standpoint of the current administration, the main difficulties with the current subdivision process are: 1. The very limited ability of the county to require improvements to public streets leading to the subdivision. There are many subdivisions occurring on very substandard public streets. The administration expects to introduce an amendment on this shortly. 2. The use of water and road variances. Rule 22, regarding water variances, is also being challenged in the board of appeals. 3. Current road standards mandate excessively wide roads in neighborhoods. 4. The current Subdivision Code does not give the administration the authority to require sidewalks, at least when the zoning for the property does not call for them. 5. The difficulty of integrating the plans for neighboring areas that maybe subdivided at different times, so that roads and other infrastructure are developed in a coordinated way. One of the goals of the community development plans is to set overall infrastructure plans for various areas. Most of these are issues that we want to address in an overall Subdivision Code reform, which is currently waiting for the development of street standards. Resolution 158-07, as amended, also contains a bill that would give the council the final authority to approve PUD's and CPD. Currently, the planning director can approve both of these. The process requires notice to neighboring properties and published notice. A PUD or CPD allows the developer to vary From the normal Subdivision Code standards to achieve a more planned development. They do not change the uses allowed on the property. They can result in different lot sizes, but within the overall density allowed. For example, in an RS-10 zone, a developer with a 200,000 square foot lot can create a 201ots (200,000 divided by 10), but instead of having all lots be 10,000 square feet, the developer can make all the lots be 7500 square feet, leaving a 50,000 square foot lot for a park or other open space. The developer maybe able to get a slight increase in the number of lots by doing a PUD, because the area of streets is not deducted, but this is offset by the fact that `ohana dwellings are not allowed in a PUD.