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2011-2014: Commencing in November 2011, a grass roots effort began to emerge in Pahoa for the purpose of creating a growth management master plan that residents hoped could establish controls on how and where growth within the village should occur and to ensure that any new development or redevelopment would be consistent with the character and sense of place that residents and visitors alike had come to identify with being unique to Pahoa. With minimal support from the county a Pahoa Plan Steering Committee was organized and secured recognition from the Puna CDP Action Committee as a formal subcommittee tasked with creating a regional town center master plan for Pahoa that would include design guidelines for all development within an identified design district. The Pahoa Village Design Guidelines being submitted to the Hawai`i County Council for adoption by resolution, the two bills proposing amendments to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) and one bill proposing to amend Chapter 3 (Sign Code)having been drafted primarily through the efforts of the Pahoa Plan Steering Committee and extensively vetted within the Pahoa community, Planning Department and the Department of Public Works constitute the first phase in the development of a comprehensive master plan for Pahoa. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS The proposed amendments will establish a new special district under Article 7 of the Zoning Code to be known as the Pahoa Village Design(PVD)district and provide special exemptions to the off-street parking requirements for specific properties with the old Pahoa Village core. The following amendments are proposed(material to be added is underscored with material to be deleted bracketed and struck out): Relating to the list of special districts: Section 25-3-2. Designation of special districts. The special zoning districts of the County shall consist of the following: (1) Kailua Village design commission(article 7, division 1). (2) CDH, Downtown Hilo commercial district(article 7, division 2). (3) [Geothermal subzone districts] UNV,University district (article 7, division 3). (4) PD, Project districts (article 6, division 4). (5) APD, Agricultural project districts (article 6, division 5). (6) PVD, Pahoa Village Design district(article 7, division j. -4-