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Hawaii County Scenic Resources Inventory and Mapping Project <br /> <br />Chapter 343, trigger for the DEIS was an amendment to the General Plan. The <br />project also requires a change in the State Land Use District from Agricultural to Urban <br />and Rural. directed growth boundary and is <br />consiste. <br /> <br />The Maui Island Plan (MIP) identifies the Honoapiilani highway fronting the project as a <br />high resource value. The MIP has policies that stipulate the <br />protection of scenic resources including views of the West Maui Mountains, Haleakala, <br />agricultural lands and the Pacific Ocean. In reviewing the Environmental Impact <br />Statem <br />requested that the impacts to views along the Honoapiilani Highway be assessed in the <br />DEIS. <br /> <br />computer generated photomontages to document the visual impacts of the development <br />on the landscape (See: Appendix E, Waikapu Country Town Visual Impact <br />Assessment). As described in the DEIS, the Applicant incorporated several mitigation <br />measures into the design visual impacts, including: <br /> <br /> Increasing the depth of the setbacks along the highway; <br /> Limiting the scale and height of buildings along the highway; <br /> Increasing the separation between buildings; <br /> Aligning internal roadways in a manner to create scenic corridors, where <br />possible; and <br /> Incorporating canopy shade trees and other landscape planting treatments <br /> <br /> <br />Low roof profiles preserve expansive views of . <br /> <br />Scenic Resource Protection Programs and Strategies Page | 24 <br /> <br /> <br />