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amendment to the County Council within 60 days from its receipt of the Planning Director's recommendation. (e) If the Planning Commission fails to act within the required period, it shall be deemed a negative recommendation. (f) The County Council may make modifications, deletions, or additions to the proposed amendments as it may deem necessary, within the general intent and subject matter of the proposed amendments, in accordance with its rules of procedure. However, any County Council change to a proposed amendment which substantially changes the general intent or subject matter of the proposed amendment, such as newly adding or deleting a goal, policy, or course of action, or standard, or a map amendment which changes a land use designation of a parcel, shall be considered an entirely new proposed amendment and submitted to the Planning Director and Planning Commission for their review and recommendation." WHEREAS, during the 2008 general election the charter was amended by the contents of Ordinance No. 08-01; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 08-01 provided for the conversion from a single planning commission to Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions; and WHEREAS, this conversion to two planning commissions, as approved by the electorate, requires that certain sections of the general plan be amended to be in accordance with the charter; and WHEREAS, the attached bill, labeled as "Exhibit A", proposes amendments to section 15.1, section 16.1, section 16.2, and section 16.3 of general plan to bring the general plan into accordance with the recently approved amendments to the charter; and WHEREAS, the only other instances of the use of "Planning Commission" in the singular context occur in the 15`h paragraph of section 8.1 and in the fifth paragraph of section 15.1 of the general plan; and WHEREAS, these instances do not require amendment as they pertain to specific events that have occurred and are not to occur again, thus their amendment would deteriorate the historical context of the general plan; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that pursuant fo the provisions of section 16-2 of the general plan and the charter, as amended, it submits to the Planning Director, Windward Planning Commission, and Leeward Planning Commission the attached bill marked as "Exhibit A", which initiates an interim amendment to the general plan to account for the conversion from a single planning commission to Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, pursuant to section 16-2 of the general plan and the amended provisions of the charter relating to the duties and functions of the Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions, recommendations from the Planning Director, Windward