2022-01-20 Leeward Exh B (Item 3 Planning Dept Presentation)

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Under growth management in North Kohala, it talks about acquiring coastal lands, which again is something that the North Kohala community has been very successful in doing to preserve open space and culturally significant areas. Downzoning State-owned properties for the same reason basically. And then supporting diversified agricultureI think that's also a commitment and a theme that we see throughout the island to preserve agriculture and also to have it be sustainable and finding creative ways to have agricultural practices to be sustainable and effective. It calls for participating, the county participating in the important ag lands opportunity that is outlined in the State statutes. And then also protecting viewplane areas, particularly the mauka-makai viewplanes, which is also called out in 205A and something that we have addressed to the best of our ability so far in the update for the General Plan, which we'll talk about towards the end. Then again,public access these are just a few of those policies called out that are in the CDP as well as for affordable housing. I think there is a nonprofit right now in the Kohalas for affordable housing, but also, you know, commitment to furthering to support that, as well as to find creative ways to increase `ohana units and additional farm dwellings to help provide more affordable housing. In the infrastructure, policies are a little bit more general, but commitment to, you know, improving and upgrading a lot of the facilities,potable water comes up often, as well as agricultural water supplies. And then wastewater is alwaysoh, excuse me, where's wastewater—wastewater is always a big part of the conversation as well. Here's the ag water down here. So the Action Committee in its past and current still continues to focus on acquisition of various open space and culturally significant sites, as well as the public access, to improve the water and agricultural water systems and transmissions, to upgrade roadway systems in general, and to create emergency bypass this is another theme you will see in other regions in the General Plan and CDPs, particularly with the Action Committees, that they tend to focus on to support that affordable housing nonprofit, as I said earlier, and then promoting diversified agriculture. So now we'll shift down to South Kohala. Again, the State Land Use is on the left with the pink being the urban areas and the General Plan, the current General Plan, on the right showing all of the, sort of dark, the darker colors and the hatch lines are urban areas, as well as the yellows and oranges are all the urban areas, and the hatching. The general policies for South Kohala again focus on cultural and sense of place, historic sites and historic places, traffic and transportation they start to identify a little bit more detail in the South Kohala areaagain, affordable housing, and emergency preparedness are focuses, particularly South Kohala is focusing on better procedures when in case of wildfires and evacuation and alternative routes, things like that. And then environmental stewardship and sustainability—again, this is a common theme that we see—and focuses things like this one prohibiting injection wells in the SMA if wastewater is not treated to a certain level, so it's a very specific policy to keep in mind when we are looking at developments, and it would be part of comments from the Planning Department. 3 EXHIBIT B