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

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way for perhaps buses, bicycles, and pedestrians. So there are a number of different opportunities that if this moves forward, that can be considered. One of the things that we participate in and have for several years since it was instated with the State, is the commission for transit-oriented development through the State, and there is a State strategic plan. In the leeward area of the island, we have these particular projects that are in that strategic plan. So looking at a potential transit station in the Makaeo, or Old Airport Park, area and doing some site selection and analysis on that through the Mass Transit office. Some affordable housing that phase 1 has been complete for Kamakana Villages and, but this is one of the areas—and I'll show you in just, in the next slide that where we have a lack of water infrastructure, so we cannot expand this facility without identifying funds and resources for added water infrastructure. Village 9, this is a joint project, and the County portion is looking at emergency housing, which is, or should be, getting underway in designing and construction starting this year. And then the multimodal transportation, the Kailua-Kona multimodal transportation plan, which right now is inactive but is somewhat covered by the island-wide mass transit master plan that includes the Kona area. So another piece that we are working with the State, the State Office of Planning and Sustainable Development has initiated a statewide project to conduct an infrastructure finance study, and they've asked each of the counties to identify an area to include in that study. And in conversations with all of our infrastructure departments, with the Department of Planning, we've identified this area of Ane K. corridor between Henry Street and Hina Lani as that corridor, particularly looking at water and wastewater needs. It does include a number of affordable housing projects in the area, DHHL as well as the high school, the Kealakehe High School. And the mass transit trunk system, which is identified along Ane K., and a hub is predicted and planned for in the West Hawaii Civic [Center] area. So what we also like about using this corridor is that the work that we, that gets done and identified in this particular corridor is likely to be directly transferable to the extension of Ane K. towards Palamanui, and this will include partnership with a number of different State agencies but particularly HHFDC and Hawaiian Homelands. So now,just to cover a few other items, and then we'll open it up for questions, and I'll also open it to the director to add anything that he would like to add. But just an FYI about concurrency, I think many of you probably understand what concurrency is, but it's a requirement for new developments to provide adequate infrastructure to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare of the property owners, as well as the community as a whole. So our zoning code identifies certain requirements for concurrency standards related to roads and traffic, as well as water and civil defense sirens, so it has specific criteria in there that have to be met for certain developments. And then the Kona CDP also has a roadway concurrency, which is the map that you see on the right; the shaded areas and the letters just simply identify certain regions, and then the roadway areas are identified by section or region, and then the blue lines show what the conceptual idea is for those roadways, green would be the preliminary alignment—some of these have actually already been built—and then pink is final as of when it was in the CDP. So some of the things that we in Planning are working on along with the director, we have started the Kona open space plan in the CDP Urban Areaagain, that red outline that I showed 6 EXHIBIT B