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WHEREAS, there are inconsistencies between the existing zoning designations and the <br />General Plan LUPAG map designations in the areas in the vicinity of Ulupono Street and Milo <br />Street; and <br />WHEREAS, the Kea`au Regional Town Center includes a range of public and quasi - <br />public facilities such as Kea'au Elementary, Middle and High Schools, the Department of <br />Education administrative complex office, 'bla`a Community Center, police and fire stations, the <br />County's Shipman Gym, and the County's Herbert C. Shipman Park (mauka of Highway 11), <br />charter schools, senior citizen housing and self help housing facilities, churches and related <br />facilities; and <br />WHEREAS, the Kea`au Regional Town Center presents an opportunity to apply the <br />following smart growth principles, which are discussed in the Puna CDP: <br />• Creating walkable neighborhoods <br />• Creating a range of housing opportunities and choices <br />• Fostering a distinctive community with a sense of place; mixing land uses <br />• Preserving open space, agricultural land, and critical habitats by directing growth to <br />an existing village <br />• Taking advantage of compact building design and <br />• Providing a range of transportation choices; and <br />WHEREAS, future development of the Kea`au Regional Town Center would provide a <br />basis for efficient road, bikeway and pedestrian networks, improved wastewater treatment, the <br />ability for government to develop a new civic/community center and transit hub to serve upper <br />and lower Puna, expanded or new parks and open space, greater water capacity, increased <br />employment, affordable housing, and other necessary public and quasi -public infrastructure; and <br />WHEREAS, in order to meet the aforementioned objectives of the Puna CDP to <br />facilitate future land use entitlements and enhance the role of the Kea`au Regional Town Center, <br />including the Puna CDP's statement that zoning for residential development and associated <br />neighborhood - oriented services "may occur within the LUPAG `alternate urban expansion <br />areas'," the General Plan should be more closely aligned to the Puna CDP similar to action taken <br />in 2012 for the Pahoa Regional Town Center by Ordinance No. 12 -89; and <br />