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PCDP Objective and Action Alignment Table <br />3.1.2.1 <br />Non -County <br />Provide tax relief for properties whose development rights have been reduced through <br />O <br />Action <br />conservation easements and similar measures. <br />3.1.2.j <br />Aspirational <br />Explore innovative methods to reduce property speculation, such as elevated tax rates associated <br />O <br />Policy <br />with rapid resale, and/or district -wide rezoning. <br />3.1.2.k <br />Aspirational <br />Where possible, reduce density and build -out within the district by various means including <br />O <br />Policy <br />selective rezoning. <br />3.1.3.a <br />County Action <br />Provide County support for land use entitlements and land assembly for village center formation <br />A <br />• Wants monthly meetings for the <br />and voluntary land pooling projects by: <br />Puna CDP Action Committee (AC). <br />1) Initiating a special use permit request or petition for a land use district boundary amendment <br />CDPS are hobbled. Wants better <br />for uses that would require such designations under State law; <br />resources for community <br />2) Seeking an amendment to the State Land Use Law (Chapter 205, Hawai'i Revised Statutes) that <br />associations to do planning at that <br />would enable the adoption of special "rural town/village" standards for locations meeting certain <br />level. <br />criteria in the State Agriculture District or State Rural District, subject to a review and approval <br />process that is simpler than the present method of boundary amendment; <br />3) Seeking State enabling legislation to allow County retention of lots that are in foreclosure for <br />delinquent real property tax payments rather than having them auctioned for sale to the highest <br />bidder, so that they can be used for relocation purposes when other properties are acquired for <br />future rights-of-way, public facilities, land assembly related to village/town center development, <br />or other objectives of the community development plan; and <br />4) Extending technical assistance and advice to a community-based land pooling association <br />concerning legal and financial aspects of land pooling as they relate to County or State legal <br />requirements and tax policies. <br />(Nov. 2008 -March 2011 Progress Report) The <br />3.1.3.b <br />County Action <br />Establish the following general classifications and locations for village and town centers in Puna: <br />A <br />Volcano — Wants to do community <br />1) Kea'au, Pahoa, and Hawaiian Paradise Park shall serve as Regional Town Centers to provide a <br />County opened the new Pahoa police station in <br />plan. There is no recognized <br />wide range of services for the Puna district; <br />February 2011, which offers driver's license <br />governance lower than county <br />2) Community Village Centers shall provide a more limited range of services in smaller existing <br />renewal and vehicle registration services. <br />govt. <br />urban settlements and in large subdivisions that are experiencing the greatest rates of build -out; <br />namely, at'Ainaloa, Kurtistown, Maku'u Homesteads, Mountain View, two or more locations in <br />Hawaiian Paradise Park, and at Volcano; and <br />3) Neighborhood Village Centers shall be the smallest in scale and located in underserved remote <br />communities and in subdivisions with relatively small lot sizes and significant rates of population <br />growth. <br />3.1.3.c <br />Policy Control <br />Facilitate land use entitlements and other tools for the development of existing and future <br />A <br />• Streamline zoning now stifled by <br />village/town centers and special design districts by: <br />county planning, need affordable <br />1) Recommending approval of applications for commercial zoning or use permits for existing <br />housing, eliminate special use <br />commercial uses in designated village/town centers that do not presently have appropriate <br />permits, <br />entitlements, and for proposed uses at appropriate nearby locations, provided that the size and <br />use of the expansion area conforms to the criteria applicable to the type of village/town center at <br />that location; and <br />2) Recommending denial of applications for zone changes for commercial or light industrial use on <br />sites that are not within designated village/town centers. <br />