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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT MARCH 1, 2012 A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT TO MAP 15 OF THE LUPAG MAP OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII GENERAL ON THE LAND USE DESIGNATION FOR PAHOA VILLAGE AND THE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS, was called to order at 9:24 a.m. in the County of Hawai`i,Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai`i,with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. • COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, Stephen Ono and Raylene Moses STAFF PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), B. J. Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary) And nine people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED Amendment to Map 15 of the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide(LUPAG)Map of the County of Hawai`i General Plan(adopted by Ordinance No. 05 25,amended by Ordinance No.06 153)by changing the land use designation for Pahoa Village and the immediately surrounding areas, Pahoa,Puna,Hawai`i. KERN: Applicant No. 2, Planning Director initiated amendment to Map 15 of the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide(LUPAG)Map of the County of Hawai`i General Plan for Pahoa Village. With that we'll go into the presentation. Maija. COTTLE: Good morning-. KERN: Good morning. DOMINGO: Good morning. COTTLE: Mr. Chair and Commissioners. This item is a General Plan Amendment and is being initiated by the Planning Director. And the reason that the Director is initiating this amendment is because back in 2008 the Puna Community Development Plan was adopted. And the land use policies and goals in that CDP don't translate exactly to the General Plan. So this was an effort to bring the General Plan LUPAG Map more in alignment with those goals and policies of the CDP. One of the main policies of the CDP is to create a village center specifically for Pahoa. It's supposed to be a regional village center,as well as Kea'au. Those are the two in the Puna district. So the idea of the village center is to create higher density uses in the town core. And then as you go out from the town core your densities become lower. So that was one of the goals of this General Plan Amendment. The other goal was to limit commercial and industrial development along the Pahoa Bypass. You've probably seen comments from DOT as you reviewed applications; and their recommendation is usually not to have commercial driveways along their State roadways. So this is an effort to pull that commercial and industrial 1 Comm. 670 Bill 230