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Land Use Element ■ Designate and allocate land areas in appropriate proportions and mix and in keeping with the social, cultural, and physical environments of the County. ■ Encourage the development and maintenance of communities meeting the needs of its residents in balance with the physical and social environment. Economic Element ■ Provide residents with opportunities to improve their quality of life through economic development that enhances the County's natural and social environments. ■ Economic development and improvements shall be in balance with the physical, social and cultural environments of the island of Hawaii. ■ Provide an economic environment which allows new, expanded, or improved economic opportunities that are compatible with the County's cultural, natural and social environment. ■ Strive for an economic climate which provides its residents an opportunity for choice of occupation. ■ Encourage the development of a visitor industry that is consistent with the social, physical and economic goals of the residents of the County. The proposed request will allow the applicant an opportunity to improve their quality of life,provide an economic environment that allows this new, economic opportunity, and increase the development of the visitor industry for Hawaii Island in a manner that is compatible with the County's cultural, natural, and social environment. According to Section 25-1-5(b) of the Zoning Code, a"bed and breakfast establishment" means any single-family dwellings and/or guest houses (pursuant to section 25-4-9), which have been permitted on a building site, in which overnight accommodations and only breakfast meals are provided to a maximum of ten guests, for compensation, for periods of less than thirty days. The proposed use meets this definition of a"bed and breakfast establishment" as the bed and breakfast will operate out of a single-family dwelling and guest house, the three (3)rooms will be rented out to under 6