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developers to incorporate in their projects. No specific minimum number of the architectural
<br />features are required. It’s just that they need to end up with a final product that fits in its
<br />environment. It does also include some guidelines for project layout on the site. In other words,
<br />they’d like to see the parking not between the street in the building wherever possible, but to
<br />have it behind or off to the side so in all, a lot of this has to do with the need to be flexible with
<br />the project that’s being proposed, the site that they have to work with that to end up with a
<br />finished product that doesn’t result in a streetscape where you’re walking down the sidewalk and
<br />to get to the building, you have to walk through a sea of parking stalls to get there.
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<br />Again, my background, okay. The sign ordinance is, like I said, to be submitted concurrent with
<br />these two ordinances proposing amendments to Chapter 25. They’re some specific signage
<br />restrictions that the community would like to see imposed in Pāhoa that are not covered under
<br />the current Sign Code, and they’re relatively minor, but if you don’t have them there, then
<br />they’re not enforceable.
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<br />This is to give you an idea of what Pāhoa’s responsibility is as a regional town center. You can
<br />see, you can probably see where Pāhoa is, they’re pretty much in the middle foreground just
<br />above the yellow text, and the surrounding subdivisions that don’t have any goods, services,
<br />commercial activity, at least not legal, to speak of. About two, roughly 2,300 lots, actually more
<br />than 2,300 lots, the existing population for that service area is already 20,000 people. With
<br />23,000 lots, we’re talking in excess of 60,000 people at buildout. And that’s just from the
<br />existing lots. So, the 9,600 lots in the bottom left, for example, is kind of pointing towards half
<br />of Hawaiian Paradise Park, Ainaloa, a portion of Orchidland. If you look at the 910 lots and the
<br />1,225 lots on the side, right side of the screen pointing down towards Kalapana Seaview Estates,
<br />Black Sands Subdivision, Kalapana area, the 2,200 lots is Leilani; 4,300 lots is Nānāwale; 510 is
<br />Kapoho Vacationland; 3,900 lots is Hawaiian Beaches, Parks & Shores; 180 lots in Waa Waa;
<br />and the 68 is State Ag Lots just outside Pāhoa Town. And that doesn’t count the three hundred
<br />and fifty some odd lots within Pāhoa itself.
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<br />This is the kind of architecture. This is the place that the people in Pāhoa want to preserve.
<br />Akebono Theatre--as I understand it, this building’s more than a hundred years old. This is, if
<br />you haven’t been to Downtown Pāhoa, you need to come out and try a restaurant. They’re really
<br />good. But, this is the kind of feel, the small town feel, that the people want to preserve.
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<br />This, more examples—it’s not in the best of condition, so there’s gonna be a move to renovate
<br />and upgrade buildings that to make sure that it’s done in a way that the feel and the character of
<br />the Village are retained. Something like having the design guidelines in a review process that
<br />ensures this, this history, this place is preserved as necessary.
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<br />More examples—and this is something that we’re very proud of in Pāhoa. Not too long ago, this
<br />Commission and the County Council approved a rezoning request for the Bryson Kuwahara
<br />commercial project, and Mr. Kuwahara and his agents have worked with our Pāhoa Steering
<br />Committee to alter their initial plans to conform to these design guidelines voluntarily. And this
<br />is some conceptual drawings that were just made available to us about a month or so ago
<br />showing how they’ve redesigned them, and you can see that this is, yeah, it’s a shopping center,
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