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NELSON: Go ahead.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: I ask Jeff to put up the General Plan. So this area that is kind of a mustard
<br />green, I guess, on the GP is Low Density Urban, and Low Density Urban can be RA, it can be
<br />10,000-square foot lots. Now, go to the Community Development Plan, for the plan for Waimea.
<br />Now this is to try and implement the General Plan, and so this is currently what we try to work with
<br />when we are looking at Waimea proper, as well as some of the specific language. And so you’ll see
<br />that -. Can you show where Māmalahoa runs through there, Jeff?
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<br />DARROW: The red dotted line.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Okay. So you can see that it has designated certain areas for small farms, it
<br />has certain areas designated for other areas, commercial, and then -. Where is the other one that we
<br />had where it shows Urban?
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<br />DARROW: The yellow.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Okay. So one of the issues here was that, because that Urban goes out to the
<br />Bonk’s property, that it’s consistent with the Community Development Plan, which was recently
<br />adopted. This would be different for other areas. But this is the context with which we work under.
<br />And as time goes by, yes, you know, other people may ask, I mean I can’t guarantee that nobody
<br />ever comes in and asks for a rezone or to change it. But the existing language -. Go to -. I think
<br />the yellow sheet that we have, which we added, and I don’t know if you have copies of it, directly
<br />quotes the South Kohala. We have said on Page 70 of it, it says to “MODERATE THE PACE OF
<br />GROWTH AND CHANGE IN WAIMEA,” and it says to, while we are trying to, you know,
<br />implement some more of this, it says basically “private lands that are currently zoned A-5a, A-10a,
<br />A-20a, or A-40a should retain their current zoning.” The exceptions are for “affordable housing,
<br />agricultural cluster subdivisions, and small-scale rezonings of 4 lots or less that may assist families
<br />in allowing their children to obtain individual properties.” Now I understand your individual
<br />concerns. But when we are reviewing these, we review them in terms of what was adopted with
<br />community input, and adopted by the County Council. And so this particular rezone fits in. And on
<br />top of that, it’s actually set for Urban, which is not true of the other properties or yours.
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<br />JONES: Would you, could, would you mind going back and showing the map where the Urban is -.
<br />Well, this Urban map is going right through Niki’s property, and it’s not touching my properties,
<br />but it’s -. This is the first time I’ve seen this map, and it’s the first time I’ve known that we were in
<br />an Urban zoning area, and I’ve owned my property since 1996. So, obviously when this zoning was
<br />done, this map wasn’t made available to all the people who lived in that area.
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Can I clarify? This is not zoning; this is the General Plan, which kind of sets
<br />out the parameters for future growth and development on the island. And by, and “General” means
<br />exactly that. So this was designed to kind of incorporate where you had existing one-acre
<br />subdivisions and lands. If you look at this, it’s kind of a strip along the Māmalahoa, because the
<br />intent is that, you know, that’s where you would concentrate future low-density urban as opposed to
<br />designating low-density urban further out from Māmalahoa. But the next step in that Plan is the
<br />Waimea Community Plan, which specifically tries to identify in greater detail how they want
<br />Waimea developed. And so to a great extent, this becomes the document that has the greatest
<br />weight in terms of how we interpret rezoning applications. And the other consideration for this one
<br />was that it is a one-acre parcel despite the zoning of Ag-40 and it’s on a small street where there are
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