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Draft Hamakua CDP Comments Submitted Online or by Email During the March 15 — June 15 2o16 Review of the Draft Hamakua CDP TM K 3-5-004-054-000 Per our discussion, in the subject line is the TMK for the parcel I mentioned to you. It's just 1.885 acres so it's not really a piece of land that could be used for ag purposes. If possible, I would like to see this parcel added to the distinction for consideration of being re -zoned to low density (yellow) on your proposed map. This parcel is just above Laupahoehoe School. I think it would make a great lot for some smaller sized homes for teachers at the school. Finding housing is one of the challenges in attracting teachers to Laupahoehoe School and this lot has the potential to help in create a solution for this issue. Yes, I fully understand this is not a zoning change, only a designation recommendation change. Thanks again for your assistance! Request revision to the Proposed Hakalau/Wailea LUPAG Map for the reasons below: I attended the public meeting held in Pepekeeo on May 11, 2016, and was distressed to learn that the proposed LUPAG would revise the current LUPAG at Hakalau Point, in conformity with the current landowner's change of zoning application to allow the Landowner to establish a subdivision of residential homes for most of the Hakalau Point property and to establish industrial/commercial structures within the remainder of the property. As you are no doubt aware, the current LUPAG establishes the entire Hakalau Point as Industrial, and the entire parcel is, in fact, currently zoned as Industrial. Although currently zoned industrial, there is very little activity of any type taking place on the property, nor has there been significant activity over the course of the prior several decades. Specifically, one of the warehouses on the parcel is used by a handful of farm workers who package ginger and sweet potatoes in the warehouse. The other warehouse located on the property, until very recently, was used as a home/party-facility for the son of the landowner. This second warehouse is currently abandoned. The proposed change in the LUPAG to recast most of the nine acre parcel from industrial to low density urban coincides with the Landowner's request for rezoning the property to residential, and is wholly inconsistent with the priorities of the CDP as described in the informational material that was handed out to the assembled during the meeting. In particular: With regard to the coastal lands along the Hamakua Coast, the CDP states that Objective Number 1 is to: •Protect, restore, and enhance watershed ecosystems, sweeping views, and open spaces from mauka forests to Makai shorelines, while assuring responsible public access for recreational, spiritual, cultural, and sustenance practices. As you may be aware, the Hawaii County Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Commission ("PONC") has identified and targeted the Hakalau Point property as one for protection and Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info