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'1 -} , changes, or recommend the rejection of the proposal for changes to the General Plan. If [the Planning Commission] either fails t6 .act on a proposed amendment within the required period, it shall be deemed a negative recommendation from that planning commission only. If both fail to act on a proposed amendment within the required period, such failure to act shall be deemed a negative recommendation from both planning commissions. (10) The County Council shall review the amendments submitted and the [recommendation] separate recommendations of the [Plar.ning Commission] Windward and Leeward, Planning Commissions and adopt an amended General Plan. 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. Such a new amendment proposed at this stage shall not be processed as part of the ongoing comprehensive review, but shall be processed as a new interim amendment pursuant to Section 16.2:" SECTION 3. Ordinance No. 05-25, as amended, is amended by amending section 16.2, relating to Interim Amendments to the County of Hawai'i General Plan, to read as follows: "16.2 INTERIM AMENDMENTS (1) The County Council may initiate interim amendments to the General Plan at any time, except during the comprehensive review pursuant to the following procedures: (a) The County Council may, by resolution, request the Planning Director and [Planning Commission] Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions to independently review and make [a recommendation] separate recommendations on a proposed amendment. (b) The Planning Director shall have 60 days or a longer period, as may be agreed to by the County Council, to submit a recommendation on the proposal to the [Planning Commission for its review and recommendation.] Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions for their independent review and separate recommendations. The Planning Director's recommendation may include suggested changes consistent with the general intent of the proposed amendment, and the Planning Director shall, if requested by County Council, prepare a draft ordinance to implement the proposed amendment. (c) The Planning Director shall notify a property owner of a proposed amendment that would redesignate its property to Open or Conservation, unless the property is already designated Conservation by the State Land Use Commission. Notice shall be given not less than 21 days before the first Windward or Leeward Planning Commission hearing on the proposed amendment. (d) [The Planning Commission] Each planning commission shall consider the proposed amendment at no less than two meetings, and shall make [its recommendation] their Exhibit A 5