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• <br />• <br />12EPORT OF THE <br />COMMITTEE ON PLANNING <br />DATE: July 30, 2008 <br />PLACE: Councilroom <br />Ben Franklin Building <br />333 Kilauea Avenue, 2"~ Floor <br />Hilo, Hawaii <br />TIME: 2:00 p.m. <br />Re: Comm. ]300/Bill 318 <br />Council Chair and Members <br />Hawaii County Council <br />Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br />Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill 318, reports as follows: <br />Bill 318, transmitted via Communication 1300 From Mayor Harry Kim, dated June 18, 2008, <br />presents the Puna Community Development Plan submitted by the Puna Community <br />Development Plan Steering Committee and its consultant, PlanPacific, Inc. <br />Communication 1300 reports that the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by <br />Chapter 4, Sec. 6-4.3(C), Hawaii County Charter; considered the above request and conducted <br />public hearings on May 6, 2008; May 22, 2008, and June 6, 2008 to review the draft Puna <br />Community Development Plan. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's four <br />proposed amendments and voted to send a favorable recommendation, together with the <br />Commission's three proposed amendments. <br />Communication 1300 notes the Planning Directors proposed amendments to the Puna <br />Community Development Plan, as follows: <br />Section 2.3.3.d calling for a centralized sewage treatment plant and/orself-contained <br />pumped septic systems within atwo-mile-wide corridor between Wao Kele O Puna forest <br />preserve and the ocean was amended to reflect that the two-mile-wide corridor include <br />the Wao Kele O Puna forest area, a~td changing reference from "ocean to the northeast'' <br />to "State lands mauka of Highway 130 between Ainaloa subdivision and Pahoa. <br />Reference that no wastewater discharge would be allowed within the corridor was <br />deleted. <br />2. Deleting section 2.1.3.d relating to review of grading and grubbing permit applications by <br />the State Historic Preservation Division (already a requirement), and by the newly <br />formed County of Hawaii Cultural Resource Commission, which was viewed as over- <br />regulation that would result in a decline of voluntary compliance. <br />Amending Section 3.23.b relating to down zoning of all agricultural zoned parcels in the <br />State Agricultural District in Puna, to a coning that would allow a subdivision no more <br />PC Report No. 89 <br />