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Dru Kanuha, Council Chair <br /> and Members of the County Council <br /> Page 4 <br /> In the rural area,the policies of the CDP also strongly encourage new <br /> development within the existing rural villages of Holualoa, Honalo,Kainaliu, <br /> Kealakekua, Captain Cook, Honaunau,Napo`opo`o, Kealia and Miloli`i. It should be <br /> noted that Kalaoa is not included as a rural village in the CDP. This could be because <br /> there is no clear commercial center in Kalaoa compared to the other villages or perhaps <br /> because the Kalaoa mauka area is seen as a sprawling extension of the Kona urban area <br /> rather than its own village. The land use polices in the CDP for the rural area are not as <br /> clear as in the urban area and in some cases policies directly conflict one another or do <br /> not clearly indicate whether they are suggestions or requirements. For example, the <br /> following sections of the Kona CDP support a rural clustered land use pattern for all <br /> lands outside the rural villages (emphasis added): <br /> • Overall Land Use Strategy 4.2.2 states "Any development outside of the <br /> rural towns and villages should be directed to suitable areas that are not <br /> important for agriculture, in clustered patterns that will optimize the <br /> preservation of rural open space." <br /> • Land Use Policy LU-3.4 states"the Clustered Rural Subdivision <br /> Guidelines in Attachment C apply to proposed subdivisions outside the Kona <br /> Urban Area." <br /> • The"Applicability" section of the Guidelines state that they apply to"a <br /> special type of"Planned Unit Development" (PUD) for North and South Kona <br /> for lands outside the Urban Area zoned Agricultural, Intensive Agricultural, <br /> Family Agricultural, or Rural Agricultural." <br /> • Land Use Policy LU-3.8 states "Rezoning of areas currently zoned <br /> agricultural, outside of the Urban and Rural TOD areas shown on Figure 4-7 <br /> Official Kona Land Use Map, and outside of urban designations on the <br /> General Plan LUPAG, shall not be allowed, except in the following limited <br /> circumstances:... (3) the rezoning is to permit a subdivision consistent with <br /> the Clustered Rural Subdivision Guidelines, while preserving the majority of <br /> the property in non-residential use dedicated to agriculture, open space, or <br /> other conservation purposes, and does not have the primary effect of allowing <br />