PD BACKGROUND REPORT (PL-SMA-2023-000027)

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III. REGULATORY AND PERTINENT PERMITTING HISTORY The subject site is located within the "Resort Node" on the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide map. Consistent with that designation, the site is zoned resort (V-.75). In 1974, the County Council adopted Ordinance No. 628 creating the Kailua Village Special District Commission and the boundaries. The purpose of the Commission was to "advice the Planning Department in matters concerning the design of buildings ad structures and all public and private improvements within the village of Kailua_" The subject site is situated within the boundaries of the Kailua Village Special Design District and therefore is subject to its review and recommendation. In 1976, the Kailua Village Design Plan was adopted by the County Council (Ordinance No. 217). The purpose of the Plan was to "further clarify the General Plan policies and to establish a more detailed program for implementing the General Plan within the Kailua Village area." Pursuant to those actions, the Planning Department's staff report relating to the SMA application noted that: "A portion of the subject property has been designated for public parking by the Kailua Village Design Plan (Ordinance No. 217). The County, however, has no available funds to acquire the property for such purposes. For the Commission's information, the petitioner submitted plans for a proposed village market to the Planning Department for preliminary comments. Upon review of the original plans, the petitioner was required by the Planning Department to decrease the retail area of the proposed market by 1,972 square feet and to provide twenty parking stalls for public use. The existing layout of the proposed facility and parking is the result of the preliminary plan review." Subsequently, the Planning Commission approved SMA 51 with conditions, with Condition 7 requiring parking stalls on the makai side of the project for"public use". The attached site plan and Alta Plan reflect the location of the structures and parking areas, with the twenty (20) public use parking stalls adjacent to the makai property line. (Figures 2 and 3) It should be noted that in 1988, an update program to re-evaluate the Village design goals, objectives and strategies was undertaken. The draft update plan, however, was never adopted. In 1994, a more comprehensive effort to update the 1976 Plan was taken resulting in a document entitled, Master Plan for Kailua-Kona. The purpose of the Master Plan was to "assist and guide the Kailua Village