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Dru Kanuha, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 3 (LUPAG) designation from "Orchard", to "Urban Expansion." The applicant's proposal to subdivide the subject property into three parcels of approximately 1.35 to 1.50 acres in size is consistent with the land use designation. The Kona CDP (KCDP) was adopted by the Hawai`i County Council on September 25, 2008 and identifies the majority of the property as situated within the "Kona Urban Area", although not within a designated Transit Oriented Development (TOD) zone. The subject parcel is also mostly situated within Concurrency Zone"H" on the Kona CDP Official Concurrency Map. The KCDP primarily directs future growth to the Kona Urban Area, and to infill areas within or adjacent to existing development. The subject property meets these criteria, and thus would be consistent with the growth management policies of the KCDP. In addition, the KCDP designates the Kona Urban Area as a"critical road area"as defined by the Hawaii County Code. According to KCDP Objective Tran-6 Concurrency and Policy Tran-6.1, Rezonings (and amendments thereof), within the Kona Urban Area, "...shall comply with the official concurrency map (see Table 4-1 and Figure 4-3), which identifies road segments to be constructed concurrent with occupancy units as the minimum "area mitigation", as defined in HCC 25-2-46(Zoning Code). " The KCDP Action Committee provided the Director with a transportation concurrency policy interpretation which states: "The Action Committee advises that the intent of the CDP policy, transportation 6.1 —is to require that the official concurrency map be applied as follows: To the extent that road improvements are necessary as area mitigation for a project within the Kona CDP, such improvements shall be for some or all of the road segments in that concurrency zone sufficient to offset the traffic demand or impact generated by the project, based on the Level of Service in accordance to the standards for such determinations as set forth in section 25-2-46 of the zoning code. Those Level of Service standards set forth in section 25-2-46 of the zoning code (concurrency)require a traffic impact analysis report (TIAR), is if a proposed zoning change will generate 50 or more peak hour trips. According to the applicant,this three- lot subdivision will only generate the equivalent of two (2) peak hour trips, and therefore would not require "area mitigation" as required by the zoning code and KCDP.