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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. 219 09 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PLANNING DIRECTOR AND PLANNING COMMISSIONS' RESPECTIVE COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, TO INITIATE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 25, ARTICLE 2, DIVISION 4, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED) BY AMENDING SECTION 25-2-46 RELATED TO CONCURRENCY CONDITIONS. WHEREAS, recognizing the need for well-planned, community-based, responsible future growth in the county, the council wishes to take a more proactive role in establishing policies for the approval of new developments within the county; and WHEREAS, the Hawaii County Charter section 3-15 charges the county council with the responsibility for enacting zoning, subdivision, and other such ordinances when it states, in part: "The county council shall adopt by ordinance a general plan which shall set forth the council's policy for long-range comprehensive physical development of the county. It shall contain a statement of development objectives, standards and principles with respect to the most desirable use of land within the county for residential, recreational, agricultural, commercial, industrial and other purposes ... and such other matter as may, in the council's judgment, be beneficial to the social, economic, and governmental conditions and trends and shall be designed to assure the coordinated development of the county and to promote the general welfare and prosperity of its people.... (a) The council shall enact zoning, subdivision, and such other ordinances which shall contain the necessary provisions to carry out the purpose of the general plan. (b) No public improvement or project, or subdivision or zoning ordinance, shall be initiated or adopted unless the same conforms to and implements the general plan...."; and WHEREAS, county residents have repeatedly expressed their perception that rapid growth is leading to overburdened public facilities and a diminishing quality of life in the county, and their frustration with the lack of infrastructure in their communities: and WHEREAS, at least one of the recently adopted community development plans (CDP), namely the South Kohala CDP, explicitly supports the principle of "concurrency" in which new development should not take effect unless improvements to infrastructure and public services occur before the occupancy of the project; and WHEREAS, amendments to the zoning code will ensure that developments proposed in a particular area are assessed considering a number of factors, including how much public infrastructure within a defined radius of the proposed new development, namely parks and recreational facilities and firefighting facilities, is challenged by recent or anticipated growth in the area; now, therefore,