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• ; OF p ..,. <br /> William P. Kenoi = ° '' '� BJ Leithead Todd <br /> Mayor „� <br /> , Director <br /> • f; .f `1 i f t •f' ; <br /> • ' •e_ - �4 • Margaret Masunaga <br /> • Sri oF'4 Deputy Director - <br /> County of Hawaii <br /> PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br /> PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE <br /> Aupuni Center • 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 • Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 <br /> Phone (808) 961 -8288 • Fax (808) 961 -8742 <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> Date: September 20, 2010 <br /> _ cn <br /> To Mr. J Yoshimoto, Chair, Hawaii County Council `; <br /> and Members of the Hawai`i County Council _ ry <br /> Via: Ms. Bobby Jean Leithead Todd, Director, Planning Department <br /> From: Barbara Bell, Chair .g' ` L <br /> Puna Community Development Plan (CDP) Action Committee . <br /> Subject: Testimony on Selected Items in Bill 194 <br /> Thank you Chairman Yoshimoto for meeting with us at our Action Committee meetings last month <br /> and last week. We now provide the following comments, which we hope will clarify certain issues <br /> contained in Council Bill #194. <br /> 1. Town and village centers. The Action Committee recognizes the advanced state of the plan <br /> under preparation by W.H. Shipman, Co. for a Town Center to be located in Kea'au. Work on <br /> this plan began before the Puna Community Development Plan Action Committee (PCDP and <br /> AC) was in place. We have no intention to impose standards and constraints that might <br /> appear in the PCDP with progress that has been made, despite some uncertainty we have over <br /> the extent of community participation in the process. <br /> We advocate local community participation in the preparation of town and village centers for <br /> other parts of Puna, and would prefer to see the application of PCDP guidelines to these <br /> centers. Furthermore, we prefer to enable local communities to utilize strategies that would <br /> provide flexibility in land use zone and site planning, namely Transfer of Development Rights <br /> (TDR) and a concept of "floating zone." We recognize these strategies are unusual, and in fact <br /> may not be permitted under present legislative rules. However, we think it would be prudent <br /> to retain the option to use these strategies, in case they eventually become authorized. At <br /> the very least, we believe it would be wise to retain the terminology in a generic manner, in <br /> the event strategies of a similar kind are found to be available. We would prefer to see that <br /> Comm No. �0 (f. 32) <br /> Hawai`i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer Ref. TO: C Cil <br /> Ref. Dote SEP 2 2 2010 <br />