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Community Development Plan may contain detailed land use zoning guide maps, called
<br />LUPAGs now, plans for roadways, drainage, parks, other infrastructure and public facilities,
<br />architectural design guidelines, which is no where found in the General Plan, planning for
<br />watersheds and other natural features, and other matters related to the planning area.
<br />As this language would apply to the Houselots area, in my mind the most important language in
<br />here in terms of what the Community Development Plan can do under this language is establish
<br />architectural design guidelines. In other words, this may be simplistic, I recognize that. But if
<br />you don’t do anything, you know, we allow this and other entitlements to go through, if we
<br />change all of Manono Street to CV, or CN, or whatever it is, we’re going to end up with Kihei
<br />Road. Okay? No question about in my mind, that’s what we’re going to end up with. You
<br />know, our system does not allow basically for anything else. Parking is going to be required,
<br />you know, they’ve got to put in the parking lots.Where do they put it? They put it up near the
<br />road; and basically you’re going to end up with a strip mall.
<br />So architectural design guidelines in a Community Development Plans allows the community
<br />there to say we don’t want it to look like Kihei Road, we want it to look like Downtown Hilo,
<br />we’ll have storefronts, sidewalks, maybe make the sidewalks 6 feet instead of 4 feet, 8 feet
<br />instead of 4 feet, you know, we want a walkable community, we want on-street parking all along
<br />these businesses, and we want a municipal parking lot some place where other people can come
<br />to the community to shop. Those are the kinds of things that the Community Development Plan
<br />under the way the law is written now clearly provides a way to get to that place; and, in my
<br />mind, that’s what should be done.
<br />If we keep granting these entitlements, which Chris pointed out that’s what we’re doing, right, if
<br />we grant this application then under 25-5-92, permitted uses, no, wrong, where am I, oh, here,
<br />25-5-102 you can have a service station, you can have a convenience store, you can have a group
<br />living facility, you can have offices, theater, lots of uses that maybe the Hirayamas are not going
<br />to do. But some point down the road this property is going to be sold, I can guarantee you that,
<br />maybe not by the Hirayamas now but after they pass away. Maybe the family doesn’t want to do
<br />it any more for whatever reason, you know, it’s not going to be in their family, somebody else is
<br />going to do it; and any of these uses, whoever buys it is not locked into this commercial space
<br />that’s being proposed. And any of these uses would be allowable. That’s what we’re being
<br />asked to do. And in my mind it’s a much better way to proceed in terms of our community and
<br />how we want this community to look in 10, 15, 20 years, right, to get the Community
<br />Development Plan done and then it will be more specific with architect -, it can be, with
<br />architectural design guidelines and so forth.And the Hirayamas and other people who want to
<br />develop their properties on Manono Street and the rest of Houselots and the rest of Hilo will
<br />have a very clear idea, right, and the backing of the community under the Community
<br />Development Plan to get it done. There won’t be this process, you know. With pretty much the
<br />Community Development Plan in place in my mind it will be law. It will be passed by the
<br />Council and so they would be entitled. If it ends up, you know, there’s going to be a commercial
<br />place, so be it. That’s how it’s going to be. And the guidelines and what architectural guidelines
<br />the developers would need to meet would all be there and they could go forward in a straight
<br />forward manner and create a community that the community wants and not a Kihei Road strip
<br />mall.
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