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preliminary boundaries of the village center includes the Mt. View Elementary School at the eastern boundary and the Hawaiian Telcom site at its westernmost boundary, across from the subject property. A park, the Mt. View Theater, and small residential lots are also included in this commercial core. However, although this property is located within the preliminary boundaries of the community village center for Mountain View, the Puna CDP clearly articulates that "there should be land available for community and residential uses within the village center" and "the maps....are not meant to be precise or strictly interpreted, rather as guidelines for reviewing the requests for village center floating zone designation...." As such, the maps are meant to serve merely as a guide to development. In this case, as properties along Nichols Road as well as across Highway 11 are mostly in residential uses, it would be more prudent to retain the largely residential character of the neighborhood along Nichols Road. This is further supported by the GP LUPAG map, which identifies the property as Low Density Urban. Commercial uses could be more appropriately established in the commercial area in the CV -zoned area proximate to the site. Therefore, from a land use perspective, to allow additional higher density commercial uses through the CV zoning in this General Plan Low Density Urban area would be inappropriate at this time. Based on the above, the request for a Change of Zone from a Single Family Residential (RS -10) to a Village Commercial (CV -10) zoned district would not result in an appropriate land use pattern and would not further the public convenience, necessity and general welfare. Therefore, it is recommended that this request be denied. A draft bill to amend Section 25 -8 -23 (Mountain View Zone Map) of Chapter 25 Zoning Code of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 edition) is provided for your information. However, please note that due to the denial recommendation, there are no conditions attached to the draft bill.