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2000 Census 2010 Population Projection <br />Area I 3.01 2.66 <br />Area II 2.94 2.35 <br />Thus, the County currently meets the 2.5/1,000 officer standard in the General <br />Plan on an islandwide basis, although "Area IP' is slightly short. <br />The Police Department currently has only one manned station per district <br />(Planning Department Exhibit G). Thus, all districts with more than 12,500 residents <br />would not meet this requirement -South Hilo, Puna, North Kona, and South Kohala. <br />This means that a clause in the proposed bill, as written, which states that the minimum <br />standazd for the adequacy of police facilities shall be "one manned police station for each <br />twelve thousand five hundred residents in the district(s) where the change of zone is <br />located" would bar rezoning in all districts of the island, because South Hilo was the only <br />district where other provisions in the bill did not baz rezoning. The overall conclusion is <br />that if the Coumy governmenrt wants to seta "standazd" that it needs a certain number of <br />police officers, police stations, and firefighters, the County government should <br />appropriate the funds to do so. Stopping new zoning does not solve the problem. <br />Fire <br />As shown on Exhibit E, if EMS personnel are included, all fire stations, except <br />Laupahoehoe, Waikoloa, Paradise Pazk, and Volcano, have the recommended fifteen fire <br />personnel per station. If EMS personnel are not included, all of the stations except <br />Central, Waiakea, and Kaumana are short. This means that although North Hilo has <br />enough police officers, rezoning would be barred because the Laupahoehoe station <br />doesn't have enough firefighters. <br />Wastewater <br />The bill appeazs to require all new rezonings, with some exceptions for <br />commercial development in rural azeas, to connect to a public or private sewer treatment <br />plant, not allowing individual wastewater systems (IWS's). Under current zoning <br />practice, if a proposed rezoning could lie connected with a public sewer system at <br />reasonable cost, this would be required as a condition of zoning. Lazge-scale <br />developments that are not close to a sewer have been required to develop their own sewer <br />system, for example, Palamanui. Otherwise, a development would have to conform to <br />-4- <br />