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INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL <br />Review and comment on a draft ordinance (Bill 328) amending the Hawaii County Code 1983 <br />(2005 Edition, as amended) by adding a new chapter relating to concurrency (establishes a <br />concurrency management system and prepares a public facilities improvement plan to fund and <br />maintain county-wide facilities and services). <br />INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL <br />Review and comment on a draft ordinance (Bill 329) amending the Hawaii County Code 1983 <br />(2005 Edition, as amended) by adding a new chapter relating to adequate public facilities (relates <br />to adequate public facilities for the identification of infrastructure and services necessary to <br />support new development and the establishment of a policy as to when and how these <br />improvements and services will be constructed and maintained). <br />GRAHAM:Our next agenda item is Item 5, initiator is the County Council, and this is <br />a draft ordinance. We also have Items 6, 7 and 8, which are also draft ordinances initiated by the <br />County Council which come to the Planning Commission first for public input. At our last Hilo <br />meeting the Planning Director gave us a presentation on these four ordinances, and then we took <br />public testimony in Hilo, and then we continued consideration until today so that these ordinance <br />would be heard on both sides of the island. So if it€s what the Planning Commissioners would <br />like, I would kind of prefer that we give the floor to Planning Director Yuen again, just to give us <br />a little review of what these are; and then we can kind of take public testimony and sort of handle <br />the four of them in a bunch, not that we won€t handle them individually, but that we€re going to <br />kind of mesh them together as we do our discussion. Is that okay? <br />COMMISSIONERS:Okay. <br />GRAHAM:Okay, Mr. Yuen, go ahead, please. <br />YUEN:Good afternoon, Commission Members. This is a continuation of the <br />same item that we talked about at our last Hilo meeting. It€s a consideration of four bills that <br />were initiated by the County Council, 318, 319, 328 and 329. Your role here is to make a <br />recommendation back to the County Council. Whether you€re favorable or unfavorable, they <br />will get these bills back. They wrote the bills, they initiated the bills, and I believe this is your <br />last meeting to deal with this because of the timefame. If there€s not a majority of the <br />membership of the Commission in favor or against any of them, it goes up with an unfavorable <br />recommendation. We€ll report to them what the discussions were and what the vote was. <br />But, in a nutshell, our recommendation is actually unfavorable on all of the four bills as written. <br />We have a revision of Bill 318 which follows the basic intent of 318 in considerably more detail; <br />and we€re asking for a favorable recommendation on that. All of these bills deal with the general <br />subject matter of concurrency or adequate public facilities; and they all have the idea of <br />development, the timing of development being tied to specific levels of service or specific levels <br />of development of public infrastructure or public facilities. The effect, the net effect of them is <br />that they might end up delaying development until public facilities and public infrastructure is <br />brought up to a certain level or standard; and each of them operates a little bit differently, <br />depending on the stage of development. <br />2EXHIBIT D <br /> <br />