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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 7 a great public need for additional commercially-zoned lands in the Puna district, particularly in Kea'au and Pahoa which have been identified in the Puna Community Development Plan as regional town centers for the district. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) is a graphic representation of the General Plan's goals and policies to guide the coordinated growth and development of the County. The General Plan's LUPAG Map for Pahoa Village was recently amended to encourage rezoning of lands to urban zoning districts in order to provide these necessary goods and services. One of the primary reasons for the LUPAG Map amendment was to support the policies contained in the Puna CDP to develop Pahoa as a regional town center for the lower Puna district by increasing the designated urban density within the town center and directing commercial and industrial uses away from the Pahoa Bypass Road. With this amendment, the LUPAG map designation for the subject property was changed from Low Density Urban, which includes single-family residential and neighborhood commercial uses, to Medium Density Urban which allows for higher density urban uses such as village shopping centers and multiple-family residential. Thus, approval of the CV zoning request would allow for uses that are consistent with the Medium Density form depicted on the LUPAG Map. The property has been used as a base yard for Bryson's Cinders, which provides soil, cinder and rock mixtures for construction, agricultural and landscaping projects since the early 1980's. Immediately surrounding lands are zoned commercial and agricultural. North of the property is a 9.5-acre lot zoned A-la that is developed with a dwelling. Further to the north is the Pahoa Marketplace shopping center on property zoned MCX-20. Other nearby commercial uses include Woodland Center located to the northeast and Pahoa Auto Parts located to the east across Pahoa Village Road, both on properties zoned CN-20. Properties to the southeast and south are zoned A-la and include two dwellings and a church and self-storage facility which were established through special permits. West of the subject property is an approximately 5,000- acre State-owned property zoned A-20a. The establishment of CV zoning on the subject property would be consistent with the existing land use pattern established within this portion of Pahoa. The applicant will comply with the requirements of the Zoning Code for the CV zoning district which would include but not be limited to building height restrictions, property setbacks, landscaping, onsite parking. Therefore, the request to change the zoning to CV-10 is consistent with the General Plan and Puna Community Development Plan. All utilities and services are available to the site. Access to the property is currently from Pahoa Village Road; however, the applicant is proposing to extend Kahakai Blvd in a westerly direction in order to provide two accesses to the property from Pahoa Village Road and two accesses to the property from the Kahakai Blvd Extension. Pahoa Village Road is a two-lane County roadway within a 50-foot wide right-of-way