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his selection or his valuation whether this group is appropriate for doing design review for the
<br />community.
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<br />This gives you an idea of the area that these design guidelines would be impacting. This is Pāhoa
<br />Village. The old village core is right down here. The new development is all going on out here, the
<br />Mālama Marketplace, the Woodland Center where the new Longs is, and commercial development
<br />is also being occurring right here and is under construction right now. Rezoning was recently
<br />approved for a little over nine acres here for the Bryson Kuwahara shopping center project that’s
<br />going in. And the purple line is the design district. So these design guidelines and the processes
<br />articulated in the ordinance would apply only to properties within this area. The red line out here,
<br />looking at it from the bigger picture perspective, is the Pāhoa Regional Town Center master
<br />planning area. This is, so these design guidelines and establishing this design district is a piece of
<br />this bigger master plan that we are initiating for Pāhoa Town to provide standards for growth, Pāhoa
<br />sees for growth, and infrastructure development concurrency, financing, all those good things.
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<br />The Pāhoa Village Design Guidelines, those are passed from the Council’s Planning Committee
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<br />with a favorable recommendation for adoption by resolution on June 3 of this year. They will be
<br />on the full Council’s agenda tomorrow for a first and probably final reading when we expect them
<br />to pass that; so the design guidelines are expected to be adopted tomorrow by resolution by the
<br />Council. They provide architectural, they are primarily architectural in nature, but do include some
<br />guidelines for layout, development layout, the siting instructions where parking ought to be and
<br />things like that, within the guidelines themselves. The guidelines are voluntary in the sense that you
<br />don’t have to incorporate all of the design elements that are proposed in the design guidelines, but
<br />you have to come up with a project that basically incorporates enough of them that the project fits
<br />within the immediate surroundings. So the idea was to create, or to preserve, the architectural
<br />history, if you will, of Pāhoa, which dates back more than a hundred years, and to not only protect
<br />what’s already there but to preserve that sense of place and identity for the future to create a brand,
<br />if you will, for Pāhoa, which hopes to be able to do more than just serve as a nice place to go have
<br />dinner.
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<br />The signs ordinance, the fourth piece of our legislation will be, is an amendment to Chapter 3 of the
<br />County Code, which is known as a sign code, establishing a Pāhoa Signs District under the Chapter,
<br />that includes some special signage regulations that would be applicable to Pāhoa only. And that
<br />would, we propose to send that on to Council, along with this ordinance that you are looking at
<br />today, as well as the Pāhoa Village Design District ordinance, as three pieces going in concurrently.
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<br />This is to give you an idea of where Pāhoa’s responsibility is, or what its role is, as a regional town
<br />center. You can see Pāhoa here, the village, and what you are looking at is an aerial; there is Cape
<br />Kumukahi, and this is coming back towards Hilo, this is heading out towards Kalapana. These
<br />numbers represent the number of lots in the subdivisions, not outside of the subdivisions but within
<br />the subdivisions, that are within the projected service area of Pāhoa as a regional town center. So
<br />23,000 lots, best estimates right now is that maybe a third are developed; the rest are vacant lots, so
<br />all you’ve got to do is go get a building permit and build your house. And so we are looking at an
<br />existing population in excess of 20,000 people depending on this village or travel all the way to
<br />Hilo for access to goods and services. So if you, even right here in Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaiian
<br />Shores, and Hawaiian Parks, 3,900 lots, Nānāwale Estates, 4,300 lots, this is just a portion of
<br />Orchidland, Ainaloa and Hawaiian Paradise Park, 9,600 lots. So it’s quite a large area that this has
<br />to, there are no other real commercial centers in this part of the island; the next closest one is in
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