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for our culture and our beauty, strikes a balance, economic, social and environment, and meets the needs of the present community without compromising future generation’s needs. The policy highlights of transportation and land use are very strongly interwoven here. The focus is on new growth going in the urban areas – urban areas defined as the urban expansion area of the existing General Plan. There were no recommendations to expand the urban area with this Community Development Plan – and to focus that growth within mixed-use, walkable urban villages, and to establish the Transit Oriented Development and the Traditional Neighborhood Development. These are new terms in Hawaii; they did not actually exist or are accommodated within our existing Zoning Code. So very strongly we wish to define them within the Community Development Plan. Attachment B is the Village Design Guidelines and Attachment C is the Rural Clustered Subdivision Guidelines that are focused around the national smart growth policies that are functioning well in other districts. And the primary focus was to increase our multi-modal transportation, pedestrian-, bike-friendly roadway standards included in those codes, and to focus on the issue of connectivity.Kona doesn’t have as many ways around congestion as other communities might. And so that was a big focus. This particular road, Puapuanui, was just this week opened to the public as another connector road; and that’s one of the reasons it is shown here. In the rural areas the decision really is, in the Plan, to focus growth within the existing rural towns and villages – this would be Holualoa and the string of communities that have always existed from Honalo, south to Captain Cook – and to increase rural public transit using a transit hub in Captain Cook, link to a transit hub in Kailua and onto the major employment north. And in the process of focusing around existing towns and villages to protect the important agricultural lands of mauka Kona, future growth in the rural areas would be focused around clusters. The Plan adopts an official transportation map. This is defined as an official layer or a series of layers within the County GIS system, and the metadata definition of those policy layers is Attachment A of the Community Development Plan. It focuses on a bus transit system linking Captain Cook with Kailua and stringing along the major roadways. There are three major roadway components here that are intergrowth to the success of the Plan, and include the Mamalahoa Bypass from South Kona Napoopoo junction to Kamehameha III Road, the Parkway linking Kamehameha III and Kuakini, the extension of Kuakini from the Old Airport to the harbor, and the creation of the new Mid-Level Road that links the top of Henry Street with the new recently-approved Palamanui project for the University of Hawaii to the north of the urban district. The Plan also includes layers for bicycle and pedestrian paths and standards for their improvements within the right-of-ways. It includes an official land use map. Then this map includes in it general location of proposed Transit Oriented Development communities beginning in the south of Kahaluu moving northward through the mid sections along the future Parkway, the Kailua area and the Makaeo Old Airport Park, and then strung along the new Mid-Level Road, Keahoolu, Honokohau, EXHIBIT B 4