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PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN % 3.1.3 Actions a. Provide County support for land use entitlements and land assembly for village center formation and voluntary land pooling projects by: 1) Initiating a special use permit request or petition for a land use district boundary amendment for uses that would require such designations under State law; 2) Seeking an amendment to the State Land Use Law (Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes) that would enable the adoption of special "rural town/village" standards for locations meeting certain criteria in the State Agriculture District or State Rural District, subject to a review and approval process that is simpler than the present method of boundary amendment; 3) Seeking State enabling legislation to allow County retention of lots that are in foreclosure for delinquent real property tax payments rather than having them auctioned for sale to the highest bidder, so that they can be used for relocation purposes when other properties are acquired for future rights-of-way, public facilities, land assembly related to village/town center development, or other objectives of the community development plan; and 4) Extending technical assistance and advice to a community-based land pooling association concerning legal and financial aspects of land pooling as they relate to County or State legal requirements and tax policies. b. Establish the following general classifications and locations for village and town centers in Puna: 1) Kea'au, Pahoa, and Hawaiian Paradise Park shall serve as Regional Town Centers to provide a wide range of services for the Puna district; 2) Community Village Centers shall provide a more limited range of services in smaller existing urban settlements and in large subdivisions that are experiencing the greatest rates of build-out; namely, at 'Ainaloa, Kurtistown, Maku`u Homesteads, Mountain View,two or more locations in Hawaiian Paradise Park, and at Volcano; and 3) Neighborhood Village Centers shall be the smallest in scale and located in underserved remote communities and in subdivisions with relatively small lot sizes and significant rates of population growth. Refer to Chapter 5 for more detailed implementation guidelines on this proposed action. c. Facilitate land use entitlements and other tools for the development of existing and future village/town centers and special design districts by: 1) Recommending approval of applications for commercial zoning or use permits for existing commercial uses in designated village/town centers that do not presently have appropriate entitlements, and for proposed uses at appropriate nearby locations, provided that the size and use of the expansion area conforms to the criteria applicable to the type of village/town center at that location;and 2) Recommending denial of applications for zone changes for commercial or light industrial use on sites that are not within designated village/town centers. 3-5