2015-07-02 HearingTranscript - PD Initiated GP LUPAG MAP 14

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Kea‛au town while limiting the potential for potentially incompatible industrial uses within the town center. This figure here is taken directly from the Puna Community Development Plan, and this is Highway 11 to your right toward Hilo, to the left toward Volcano. This road here where I’m pointing at is the Kea‛au Bypass that heads on its way down to Pāhoa. The large purple area you see here is the Kea‛au—I’m sorry—the Shipman Industrial Park. And, the Kea‛au commercial core is located at the intersection of Kea‛au-Pāhoa Road and Highway 11. As you can see here, it outlines regional uses. This is the area on the mauka side of Highway 11, and Kea‛au Park is roughly in this vicinity here. Off to your left is Kamehameha School Complex here. And, the dark red colors shown here is the Gateway project that doesn’t exist on the ground but for which zoning has already been established. And again, you have the other red area here represents the Kea‛au, existing Kea‛au commercial core. The map actually shows the preliminary outline or boundaries, perimeter boundary, of the Kea‛au Regional Town Center, and you can see it where it basically goes on the mauka side of Highway 11 around Shipman Industrial Park and then along the Pāhoa Bypass, and then makes its way back along the, the eastern boundary of Kea‛au Ag Lots. This figure here is the existing General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map with makai basically to the, to the top of the map mauka to the bottom. The dark gray represents Industrial lands. This particular area is Shipman Industrial. This other gray area here is in the vicinity of the HELCO power plant. The cross hatch here is Urban Expansion. Urban Expansion is a type of designation that the County Council, through its resolution, asked the Director to, to take a look at as part of this proposed LUPAG Map amendment. The yellow represents Low Density Urban uses which is typically single family residential types of uses. And the orange here, which basically comprises roughly 52 acres of land, encompasses the existing Kea‛au commercial core. I’m now gonna switch over to the proposed map. This map represents that particular area by which the proposed amendment will change the General Plan LUPAG Map classification from Low Density uses to Medium Density, and that is represented here. That comprises approximately 475 acres. And, there’s a little segment here of approximately 112 acres located in the vicinity of Kea‛au High School. And, that area will go from Important Agricultural Lands to Medium Density Urban. And, once again, right here, the existing medium density urban area that encompasses the Kea‛au Village, Kea‛au Town Center core—commercial core I should say. And, this proposal would simply expand that medium density throughout the area bordered by the Pāhoa Bypass, off to the right by the Kea‛au Ag Lots, Highway 11 at the bottom of the map, and abutting against the existing Industrial designation that surrounds the power plant. The desig—you may see here—hopefully, you can see here, the existing subdivisions in the vicinity of the town core. Those areas will remain Low Density Urban. So, by looking at this map, you can understand some of the concerns by the community with the original Council 3 EXHIBIT A