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BPDInit-KeaauLUPAG-GPAmend.dsa-6/25/15 COUNTY OF HAWAII PLANNING DEPARTMENT BACKGROUND AND RECOMMENDATION INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR AMENDMENT TO MAP 14 OF THE LAND USE PATTERN ALLOCATION GUIDE (LUPAG) MAP OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII GENERAL PLAN (2005 EDITION,AS AMENDED) The Planning Director is initiating an amendment to Map 14 of the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide(LUPAG) Map of the County of Hawai`i General Plan(adopted by Ordinance No. 05-025, amended by Ordinance Nos. 06-153 and 14-087)by changing the land use designation for portions of Kea'au Village and immediately surrounding Kea'au Village, Kea'au, Puna, Hawai`i. COUNTY COUNCIL RESOLUTION No. 464-14 July 18, 2014—County Council adopts Resolution No. 464-14, Draft 2 (Exhibit 1), requesting that the Planning Director initiate an interim amendment to the General Plan LUPAG Map in the vicinity of the Kea'au Regional Town Center as defined by the Puna Community Development Plan(Puna CDP)based on findings that: • the County of Hawai'i General Plan ("General Plan") Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG)map designations for the Kea'au Regional Town Center area are inconsistent with the Objectives,Actions and Land Use Recommendations of the Puna CDP; • there are inconsistencies between the existing zoning designations and the General Plan LUPAG map designations in the areas in the vicinity of Ulupono Street and Milo Street; • in order to meet the aforementioned objectives of the Puna CDP to facilitate future land use entitlements and enhance the role of the Kea'au Regional Town Center, including the Puna CDP' s statement that zoning for residential development and associated neighborhood- oriented services " may occur within the LUPAG"alternate urban expansion areas", the General Plan should be more closely aligned to the Puna CDP; and • inconsistencies between the General Plan LUPAG map and the Puna CDP recommendations, growth within the Kea'au Regional Town Center has been primarily confined to a core in which specific settlement patterns have not yet been fixed and which is currently designated Medium Density Urban by the General Plan-LUPAG, with RE: Bill 72 (Comm. 398)