2011-05-19 Leeward Exh A - 327 Kona

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This is a blow-up of the Kona Community Development Plan. Again, this is your Urban Area and this is the 327 acres parcel. This is Hina Lani Street. Then what I did was just taking an excerpt from the Kona Community Development Plan just to make it easier. And basically if you read down this section over here – sorry the yellow didn’t come out – but it’s basically, as the staff has stated, that you have this policy, and the policy states that “rezonings within the Kona Urban Area shall comply with the Official Concurrency Map, which identifies the road segments to be constructed concurrent with occupancy of units as a minimum area mitigation.” So it’s clear in the Kona Community Development Plan; it states that if you don’t have certain road improvements completed, then basically you can’t develop, you can’t have the zoning. And there is another policy, which also states – again, it’s kind of like faint up here – but basically in this section over here it also states that in addition to having certain basic infrastructure improvements be completed, one of the common threads was that the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway extension had to be completed before, I mean, the Highway extension up to the airport had to be completed before any occupancy can be provided. So in addition to that requirement, there was this concurrency requirement for certain improvements that had to be done. So then we come now to, you know, like I said, okay, what does the concurrency table say relative to this parcel? And again, this is the road map for the Kona Urban Area and this is the subject area. Again, this is the subject area. And the 327-acre area, as you notice, has two so-called concurrency zoned area: One is Zone H, which affects this particular area, the subject area, the proposed ten lots subdivision; the balance of the property on the lower side falls within the so-called Concurrency Zone G. So then you look at like, what does concurrency for H say, which is the subject area? And the concurrency says essentially that Kealaka‘a Street has to be completed from essentially Palani Road to Hina Lani Street. And so again, I’m just kind of pointing out these things largely just to indicate that there is no question from the Planning Director’s standpoint in reading the Community Development Plan, and we agree, just the way the language is written, it’s saying that if the Kealaka‘a Street extension is not completed, then no rezoning, you know, within that area can occur. Then there is another provision in the Kona Community Development Plan, which talks about – again, it’s very, I’m sorry, it’s kind of faint – but it says this priority road improvements, and in that priority road improvements, it basically states that these are all of your road proprieties, and the first one is the completion of the Kahului-Keauhou Parkway, and if you look at where the Kealaka‘a Street extension is, it’s almost near the bottom. So this Plan kind of forces administrators in terms of trying to implement all of the roadway improvements called for in the Plan according to this level of priorities. And then there is another provision, it says over here, like, how do you accomplish the realization of all of these roadway improvements? It says, well, you develop a financing plan for streets according to the priorities listed over here, and that responsibility falls with the Planning Department, the Department of Public Works and the Finance Department. This is kind of like a blow-up of the entire 327 acres. This is the area that the proposed ten lots subdivision is– and again, it’s kind of faint – but this is the proposed Kealakehe Highway extension, I mean if you extend this road, it goes up and basically it would be going through a portion of the applicant’s property. And this is the so-called Kealaka‘a Street extension, the north-south extension. 4 EXHIBIT A