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6. The LUPnG map designation for Hokulia (deleting the identification of these lands as important <br /> agricultural land); and <br /> 7. The definition of orchards. <br /> Your Committee wishes to emphasize that a comprehensive revision to the General Plan is long overdue. Your <br /> <br /> Committee wishes to avoid the prospect of sending this bill back to the Planning Commission, leading to ilvther <br /> <br /> delay of this plan. Once adopted, the County can move forward with the creation and implementation or <br /> <br /> conununity development plans. These plans should facilitate orderly resolution of infrastructure shortfalls, as <br /> well as ensure better stewardship of the island's natural and cultural resources. <br /> Your Committee recognizes that there may be ambiguity in the interpretation of the process by which this <br /> General Plan is amended in the future. Rather than amend the bill and further delay its adoption, Your <br /> Committee recommends that Bill No. 163 should not limit the ability of the County Council in the tuture to <br /> propose interim amendments to the General Plan over the objections of the Planning Director. Furthermore. <br /> Your Committee wishes to clarify that these revisions to the General Plan do not prevent the Council from <br /> <br /> amending the Planning Director's comprehensive review a decade from now. <br /> Your Committee finds that the public has been extensively involved in the drafting of the revised General Plan <br /> before the Planning Department the Planning Commission and this Committee. Information about the drafts <br /> has been widely circulated by local newspapers, the web, and by the Council. The time for action is now. <br /> Your Committee w fishes to highlight what it views as the more important principles in this revision of the <br /> General Plan: <br /> 1. Future development must be consistent with both the text and the maps of the plan. <br /> 2. Lands identified as agricultural are to be protected from development, and important agricultural <br /> lands are identified. <br /> 3. 'I7aditional and cultural practices of native Hawaiians are to he protected. <br /> 4. A number of scenic coastal areas are provided additional protection on the maps. <br /> Community development plans are to be adopted by ordinance and implemented. <br /> Your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of Bill No. 163, as amended to Draft d, and <br /> recommends it pass first reading. <br /> dkf <br /> AYES NOES A&E EX C EON PLA 1N ' <br /> ARAKAKI X <br /> HIGA X <br /> HOFPMANN X ~ 'C^ ng I it <br /> HOI,SCIIUI ( X <br /> IKEDA X <br /> ISB}?I,1. X Co-Chair eter HofG a <br /> .IACOBSON X <br /> PII,AGO X PC REPORT NO. 2 <br /> snr~RlK x ~noP rED: JAN 2 1 7005 <br /> <br />