2016-11-15 Proposed Revision Summary

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Note: Additions are red, deletions ares Section 3: Preferred Land Use & Settlement Patterns 3.1.4 Land Use Policy Policy 1: With the adoption of the Hamakua CDP, Figures 2-13 9) are adopted as the effirsial Land Use Guide PL&V F Map for the Hamakua CDP Planning Area. Future land use decisions in the Hamakua CDP planning area shall be consistent with the Land Use Guide y Map, unless the CDP and the General Plan are in direct conflict, in which case the General Plan shall be controlling. As with the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map, the CDP Land Use Guide Map designates preferred future development patterns by indicating the general location of various land uses in relation to each other. To maintain consistency, the land use category definitions used in the CDP Land Use Guide Map are identical to those currently used in the 2005 General Plan LUPAG map. See also Policy 12 for the County Action that aligns the CDP Land Use Guide P-g Map with the General Plan. Policy 12 is necessary because the CDP Land Use Guide Map does not automatically amend the General Plan. [Note: With this change, all references to the Land Use Policy Map will be changed to Land Use Guide Map in the CDP and all other future CDP documents.] See pages 14-21 for proposed revisions to the'O'okala, Laupahoehoe, Hakalau, and Pauka'a Land Use Guide Maps. Policy 4: In order to preserve larger lot agricultural lands for productive agricultural use, allow rural development on lands near urban areas where an intermediate land use between residential and productive agricultural areas is consistent with the surrounding uses and rural character. This is reflected in the location of "Rural" (R) areas on the official Land Use Policy Map, which is intended to facilitate changes of zone to "Residential and Agricultural District" (RA) or the "Family Agricultural District" (FA). The intermediate land use between residential and productive agricultural areas is intended to serve as: • A low density area that provides a transitional use buffer area between strictly residential and commercial productive agriculture areas, and; • A mix of personal or family -scale productive commercial or subsistence agricultural use on all newly established parcels in the Rural area, and; • Parcels having a median size of between 2 — 3 acres but in no case less than 1 acre in size. Areas beyond both the Urban Growth Boundary and Rural areas are to be preserved for agricultural uses, open space, scenic viewsheds, and natural beauty areas.