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position to look at whether it’s consistent with the CDP. The problem with some of this is we don’t
<br />have CDP’s for the entire island. We don’t have CDP’s in some cases that really address some of
<br />these issues. And it’s the same thing with Ms. Nimori’s comment earlier about the Kona Field
<br />System; that language is specific to Kona whereas the code that we are trying to write has to cover
<br />the entire island. And so if you are going to propose amendments, the amendments need to be
<br />worded in such a way that it would take into consideration not just a specific area but the entire
<br />island in the way you word it.
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<br />GIFFIN: Commissioners, any questions of the Planning Director? I do -.
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<br />M. K. McINNIS: I have one more little tiny, just so I understand, if you don’t mind.
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<br />GIFFIN: Excuse me, I need to recognize you.
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<br />M. K. McINNIS: Oh, I’m sorry, excuse me.
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<br />GIFFIN: It’s quite all right. Do you want to react to what the Director said? Please go ahead.
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<br />M. K. McINNIS: I just, I want to make sure that I understood just the one part. So when you grant
<br />the rezoning for the piece of property that, as example that we were talking about, so you have
<br />however many acres it is that was rezoned, you are guaranteed, you are allowed to have so many
<br />lots just willy-nilly in this many acres of zoning before you even have done anything; I can go out
<br />and I can buy 20 acres of whatever and have it rezoned and I can -. I don’t quite understand that
<br />when I don’t -. I understand about topography and easements and roads and drainage and all those
<br />sorts of things have to go into it. So I don’t quite understand how -. I understand a few variances,
<br />but I don’t understand if -. Because lots have to be adjusted, and you can’t just cookie-cutter them
<br />out – I understand we don’t live in Nebraska, I understand that. But I don’t quite understand when
<br />you have to accommodate for easements and roads and drainage and special features and all the
<br />things that we have, living here, so I don’t quite understand, though, just because I bought 20 acres
<br />of, or however many acres it is, it happens to be, it has been rezoned, how I can necessarily count
<br />on using all those to put X number of houses on to kind of make the math work. And if you’ll
<br />explain that to me, I would appreciate that.
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<br />GIFFIN: Director?
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<br />LEITHEAD TODD: Well, zoning is really about density, and then subdivision is how you cut up
<br />your density. And what we typically do, when we look at this, is – let’s say your 20 acres, now,
<br />typically, if you divided it by the lot size, you would get X number of lots – we typically subtract
<br />out what we assume is going to be the roads so that, even though theoretically you could divide it
<br />and you were going to get 80 lots out of it, we have a calculation where we assume roads are going
<br />to take up so much space, so we subtract that out, and instead of 80, we may say that, you know,
<br />you actually can only get about 70 lots out of this. So we look at that as being the maximum
<br />number of lots that you can get out of that, if it was RS-10 and you had 20 acres. The reason you
<br />end up doing P.U.D.’s sometimes is because of topo and roads. And so the P.U.D. allows them
<br />some flexibility, and then they can try to get to the maximum number of, you know, 70, 75 or what
<br />is, in configuring it. And so we usually try to accommodate that, because we look at that as trying
<br />to accommodate the differences in the topo and trying to treat different property owners somewhat
<br />similar in the sense that if you have 20 acres, and you can subdivide 75, and you’ve got 20 acres
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