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North and South Kona in the General Plan that says “Protect important agricultural lands within the <br />Kona Coffee Belt from urban encroachment through the use of zoning and other mechanisms.” <br /> <br />So, next, relative to the Kona Community Development Plan there is a Land Use Policy 3.8 that <br />says rezoning of areas currently zoned Agricultural outside of the Urban and Rural TOD areas, and <br />outside of Urban designations on the General Plan LUPAG map in limited circumstances, include <br />what’s being proposed here, which “allows only a small number of additional lots, consistent in <br />scale with the transfer of lots to family members”; however, the same policy at the end says, the <br />intent is to “prevent the rezoning of agricultural property to allow ag\[ricultural\] subdivisions where <br />the primary objective of the lot owner will be to have a residential estate.” So the application <br />actually said this was, the stated purpose was to allow the daughter to build a home. <br /> <br />In terms of the land use pattern, the subject property is one of 15 three-plus-acre parcels in the <br />mauka portion of the subdivision that’s maintained Ag-3 zoning for the last 42 years. Changing the <br />zoning to FA-1a would be a significant departure from the existing zoning, and importantly could <br />set a precedent should other property owners desire similar changes in zone. And finally, this could <br />create kind of the more dense, more residentially-focused land use pattern, which from before is <br />inconsistent with the General Plan, the LUPAG, State Land Use Agricultural District and the Kona <br />Community Development Plan. <br /> <br />Based on the preceding, the Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission <br />forward an unfavorable recommendation to the Hawai‘i County Council. <br /> <br />Just really quickly, since the background and recommendation were complete, there were three <br />additional pieces of correspondence that came in to the Planning Department: There was a letter of <br />opposition from a neighbor, dated June 9, 2015, the Department of Water Supply followed up with <br />a clarifying memo dated June 10, 2015, and then Mr. Lipps responded in writing to the Director’s <br />unfavorable recommendation and that’s dated June 16. And I believe all of those were emailed to <br />the Commission. With that concludes my presentation, I’m happy to answer any questions that the <br />Commission may have. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Commissioners, any questions for staff? <br /> <br />CHURCH: Yes, Christian, I have several questions for you here. The subject parcel falls into the <br />Coffee Belt area. Are there any nearby commercial coffee farms in this area? <br /> <br />KAY: I believe so, yes, let me, sorry, I’ll click back through this and I’ll find the aerial photo kind <br />of showing the surrounding area, the zoomed-out aerial photo. Jeff, can you remind me the name of <br />this coffee farm here that was the -? <br /> <br />DARROW: UCC? <br /> <br />C. LIPPS \[in the audience\]: Komo. <br /> <br />3 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />