2012-03-15 Leeward Exh A - LUPAG Pahoa

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and the Pāhoa Bypass. So the changes that we are suggesting to the LUPAG Map are taking those goals into consideration. And this is a land map for Pāhoa that is included in the Puna CDP. You can see there is the Kea‘au- Pāhoa Road running along the top side of the slide, as well as the Pāhoa Bypass, and then you see Pāhoa Village in this area here highlighted in red. Mālama Market, if you are familiar with the area, Mālama Market is right here, and then the new fire station and police station are out on Kea‘au- Pāhoa Road. So the CDP wants development to be focused within the town boundary here, which is shown with the dotted line, and you can see that both of those areas are primarily away from the Bypass, centered along old Pāhoa Village Road. This is the existing LUPAG Map for Pāhoa Town. Again, old Pāhoa Village is in this orange area, which is the Medium Density Urban, and then you have Pāhoa Village Road running through here. There are some smaller agricultural lots in this area here, and then you have Mālama Market in this area shown with the crosshatch, which is Urban Expansion. Medium Density Urban allows some commercial development, as well as single-family residential, multi-family residential. Low Density, which is the yellow, allows primarily residential, single-family residential development. And then the Urban Expansion, which is the crosshatch, allows a wide variety of zoning; it can even include light industrial. So you can see that there is quite a bit of Urban Expansion currently around the outer area of Pāhoa Village, which opens up a lot of the agricultural land on the outskirts of town to potential light industrial development. So we want to, the Director is suggesting changing that, and I’ll just go through the changes here. The first change which is shown as A-1, which is this blue crosshatch, is taking Urban Expansion out of the area makai of the Bypass and changing that back to Extensive Agriculture. There are quite a few larger agricultural lots in this area here. And the goal of this change is to discourage light-industrial and commercial development along the Bypass, so that the Bypass can continue to function as a high-speed roadway. The second change is in this little area here, which is near the new Longs Drugstore in Pāhoa, and it’s changing this area here along Kahakai Boulevard from Urban Expansion to Medium Density Urban, which would still allow some commercial development in this area. And then the third change again is removing the Urban Expansion on the mauka side of the Pāhoa Bypass and changing that to Low Density Urban, which would allow some single-family residential development, and then just south of the high school – the high school is located here – changing this area also from Urban Expansion to Low Density Urban. The fourth change would be right along the Pāhoa Village Road; it would be extending the Medium Density Urban all the way up towards Mālama Market, so that commercial development and higher density residential development could occur along Pāhoa Village Road. And then the last change is in this area out mauka of town along Apaa Street. And I should just note here that the new transfer station is located in this area here. So we want it to change this from Low Density Urban to Urban Expansion, so that more of the light industrial uses for Pāhoa can be focused closer to the transfer station and away from the residential and commercial development in the town center. These are just descriptions of the LUPAG designations. Again, Low Density allows some single- family residential or duplex housing. Medium Density Urban allows some higher density housing; you can do multi-family apartments. Also, you can do a little bit of commercial development as well in Medium Density Urban. And then the Urban Expansion designation opens the area up to light industrial zoning and actually heavy industrial zoning as well. And with that, that concludes the presentation. Obviously, since the Director initiated, she is recommending a favorable recommendation. Are there -. 2 EXHIBIT A