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<br />Kailua-Kona does have design guidelines that were adopted within the context of a master plan
<br />that was adopted by resolution in 1996. And, they have a design commission, that’s actually a
<br />County-appointed and service commission that we did not want to impact, have any effect on the
<br />process being proposed for Pāhoa, and other communities that might follow later on, would not
<br />provide for a County-appointed and serviced, if you will, or managed commission. So, we had
<br />to add the language in red to make it clear that this does not have any impact on any existing
<br />special districts with adopted design guidelines that were in existence prior to the adoption of
<br />this subsection so that we’re proposing as an amendment to the overall ordinance package being
<br />presented to you.
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<br />The second ordinance has to do with the Pāhoa Village Design District ordinance which is to
<br />create Pāhoa Design District under Article 7 of Chapter 25. Right now, it’s being proposed as
<br />strictly a design district, and that it would provide, it does provide for some exemptions to off-
<br />street parking requirements for specific properties within Pāhoa, the existing Pāhoa old town
<br />village area where the lots are so small, and most of them are already built out, that there’s just
<br />no way to put parking there. We have contingency plans in our overall Pāhoa master planning
<br />effort to provide for public parking, so that, that amendment was put in there for that. That
<br />would allow them to get through the Plan Approval process if they will want to redevelop or one
<br />of the vacant lots wanted to get developed.
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<br />It also acknowledges adoption and applicability of architectural design guidelines for the Pāhoa
<br />Village Design District, which as I mentioned earlier, have already been submitted to the
<br />Council, and as a matter of fact, were unanimously approved with a favorable recommendation
<br />by the Planning Committee on Tuesday, so it’s going to the full Council, probably for their next
<br />hearing in Kailua-Kona.
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<br />And, lastly, it provides for recognition of community based local review of development projects
<br />in the PVD. The, as I mentioned earlier, so this is where the process is defined on how these
<br />community review committees might be formed and recognized by the Planning Director and
<br />then how they will be, interact with the Planning Department in the design review process.
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<br />This is a map of Pāhoa, and with a little—yep, oh there, well I saw a red light someplace—I lost
<br />it. If you can see the red line surrounding the greater areas labeled the Pāhoa planned area, that’s
<br />the area that our master plan is proposed to provide a master, well a master plan, a strategic
<br />master plan for that area, and that’s not really what we’re here about today. It’s the—what are
<br />you pushing—oh, okay—it doesn’t like me—hey, there it is, okay! I love technology. Ask my
<br />boss if I text—no. Forget this. The purple line, the purple line is actually the, is the design
<br />district that this ordinance adopts, and it’s described in the ordinance in text, and these are the
<br />properties where, that would be impacted by the design guidelines. This is a, to give you a—
<br />why am I seeing that text on there—oh, this is the design guidelines, I’m sorry, that the
<br />background picture is supposed to be more washed out and so you can actually read the text—it
<br />looked good on my computer. That’s fine. Oh, anyway, I can’t even read that.
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<br />The architectural design guidelines—they not only provide standard, not even standards, but they
<br />provide some guidance as to what kind of architectural features are being recommended for
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