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We enacted four Community Development Plans (CDP’s) by ordinance in 2008: Puna, North Kona, South Kohala, and North Kohala. These had an unprecedented level of community involvement and scope. “Action Committee” process to follow-up and implement CDP’s. Envision Downtown Hilo 2025 Plan. Keahole-Honaunau Regional Circulation Plan. Puna Regional Circulation Plan. Kona Roads Action Plan, August 2006. Assisted in planning for West Hawai’i Civic Center project. Zoning and Other Land Use Changes. A basic function of the Planning Department is to advise the Planning Commission and the County Council on zoning and other land use changes. The Planning Director gave the Council detailed summaries of recent zoning activity on the island by letters dated May 9, 2005, and December 22, 2006. Since the Dec. 22, 2006 letter, there has been relatively little new rezoning activity because of the Council-initiated pause in rezoning for the Kona and North and South Kohala CDP’s. Most rezoning in the last two years has involved small properties in the Waiakea houselots, and time extensions on existing zoning. The general conclusions of the two earlier letters remain true: Rezoning over the last eight years has been faithful to the overall guidelines of the General Plan and its Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map. Most major rezoning actions in that time have been within a three mile radius of the intersection of Palani Rd. and the Queen Kaahumanu Highway—the preferred growth area in both the General Plan and the Community Development Plan. The Palamanui rezoning is more distant, but still within the growth area in the GP and CDP, and also assists the development of the West Hawai’i community college. Hilo-area rezonings have been near the center of the city and did not contribute to sprawl. We kept new development away from the shoreline—only one acre of shoreline property was rezoned in eight years, a small state parcel at Kawaihae Harbor where most of the property was committed to park use. We did very little rezoning of GP “important ag lands”, and none that created “residential estate” type subdivisions. 2