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changes, or recommend the rejection of the proposal for changes to the General Plan. if <br />[*'~° ~'°~°~~° ~°--~-~~°~=°~] either fails to act on a proposed amendment within the <br />required period, it shall be deemed a negative recommendation from that planning <br />commission only. If both fail to act on a proposed amendment within the required <br />period, such failure to act shall be deemed a negative recommendation from both <br />planning commissions. <br />(1 O) The County Council shall review the amendments submitted and the [n~~] <br />separate recommendations of the [D1°~~~~~ r'°mm~°°~°~] Windward and Leeward <br />Planning Commissions and adopt an amended General Plan. The County Council may <br />make modifications, deletions, or additions to the proposed amendments as it may <br />deem necessary, within the general intent and subject matter of the proposed <br />amendments, in accordance with its rules of procedure. However, any County Council <br />change to a proposed amendment which substantially changes the general intent or <br />subject matter of the proposed amendment, such as newly adding or deleting a goal, <br />policy, or course of action, or standard, or a map amendment which changes a land use <br />designation of a parcel, shall be considered an entirely new proposed amendment. Such <br />a new amendment proposed at this stage shall not be processed as part of the ongoing <br />comprehensive review, but shall be processed as a new interim amendment pursuant to <br />Section 16.2." <br />SECTION 3. Ordinance No. OS-25, as amended, is amended by amending section 16.2, <br />relating to Interim Amendments to the County of Hawaii General Plan, to read as follows: <br />"16.2 INTERIM AMENDMENTS <br />(1) The County Council may initiate interim amendments to the General Plan at any time, <br />except during the comprehensive review pursuant to the following procedures: <br />(a) The County Council may, by resolution, request the Planning Director and <br />[D1°~~~~° ~'°^~-~~°°~^^] Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions to <br />independently review and make [^ ~°^^~~°^~'^"on] separate recommendations on <br />a proposed amendment. <br />(b) The Planning Director shall have 60 days or a longer period, as may be agreed to by <br />the County Council, to submit a recommendation on the proposal to the [P-kanning <br />r°--~--~~~~~°~ ~ - ~~~ - °a - °.,,,...'°~ ]Windward and Leeward Planning <br />Commissions for their independent review and separate recommendations. The <br />Planning Director's recommendation may include suggested changes consistent <br />with the general intent of the proposed amendment, and the Planning Director shall, <br />if requested by County Council, prepare a draft ordinance to implement the <br />proposed amendment. <br />(c) The Planning Director shall notify a property owner of a proposed amendment that <br />would redesignate its property to Open or Conservation, unless the property is <br />already designated Conservation by the State Land Use Commission. Notice shall <br />be given not less than 21 days before the first Windward or Leeward Planning <br />Commission hearing on the proposed amendment. <br />(d) [T"~ D1°~~~~° r'°~~~~~°°~°~] Each plannine commission shall consider the proposed <br />amendment at no less than two meetings, and shall make [~*° ~°°°-~--~-°~a°~~~~] their <br />Exhibit A <br />5 <br />