Recomended Hāmākua CDP Policy Rationale

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Note: The CDP land use guide designations reflect the County's preferred land use for specific areas, but the CDP does not change the General Plan LUPAG map, the underlying State Land Use District, or County Zoning. Even if the CDP land use guide map recommendations are incorporated into the LUPAG, a property owner may still need to go through a SLU Boundary Amendment and/or County Rezoning process to ultimately obtain a land use consistent with this designation. However, due to water system constraints in many Planning Area communities, County water system improvements may be required for a Change of Zone due to concurrency rules (see Zoning Code, §25-2-46 (m)). In other words, a CDP land use guide designation or a LUPAG designation does not automatically grant a type of land use, it merely conveys that the County Planning Department would likely support this change of land use through a SLU amendment or Change of Zone if all other requirements have been met. For more information, refer to pages 185-188 of Appendix V413. Figure 4: Pepe'ekeo Land Use Guide Map Rationale: Pepe'ekeo is the second largest town in the Planning Area and is unique in that it was largely designed as a planned subdivision to consolidate nearby plantation camp housing. The town is split by Highway 19 and has a separate urban node at Pepe'ekeo Point. The surrounding land outside the town is productive agricultural and homestead areas. The CDP land use guide map recommends a consolidation of the LUPAG Industrial designation near the coast at Pepe'ekeo Point to the appropriate parcels that are potentially being developed as a power plant — but limits that designation from extending further into adjacent parcels that are either best suited for agricultural purposes or are currently being used as residential/agricultural lands. While the CDP recommends consolidating or removing portions of the Industrial designation, this parcel still maintains their underlying State Land Use District and their County zoning. The CDP also recommends adding a LUPAG Industrial area to the site (TMK: 2-8-008:103) formerly used as a scrap metal base yard due to it being zoned as Industrial. See LUPAG for a discussion of LUPAG Industrial significance. The CDP land use guide map designates a more parcel -specific and compact LDU area in Pepe'ekeo, and added Rural designations along the southern boundary of town (near Wai'a'ama Stream) to reflect the rural nature of these larger residential/agricultural parcels (these parcels are currently zoned Ag -1.). This area currently is not served the County water or wastewater service and by designating these lands as LUPAG Rural (as opposed to LUPAG LDU), it effectively limits their future capacity to subdivide and thereby provides a buffer between the more densely compacted urban neighborhoods of Pepe'ekeo and the rural areas near Wai'a'ama Stream. See Policy 4. The LUPAG MDU is consolidated from being two separate nodes into one single node around Ka'akepa and Kumula Street (mauka of Highway 19) to Andrade Road because the existing second designation of LUPAG MDU close to Wai'a'ama Stream was likely a mapping discrepancy. See Policy 3. In summary, the proposed changes for Pepe'ekeo effectively shrink the LUPAG LDU away from larger lot agricultural areas and clearly define the town's urban border. The changes designate Industrial land uses to specific parcels either in current industrial uses or proposed for industrial redevelopment, and they add Rural designations in a limited area to provide a buffer of larger -lot rural development between residential neighborhoods and Wai'a'ama Stream. See the rationale for policies: Policy 3, Policy 4 and Policy 5, and the existing General Plan Policy 14.1.3 (j). Note: The CDP land use guide designations reflect the County's preferred land use for specific areas, but the CDP does not change the General Plan LUPAG map, the underlying State Land Use District, or County Zoning. Even if the CDP land use guide map recommendations are incorporated into the LUPAG, a property owner may still need to go through a SLU Boundary Amendment and/or County Rezoning process to ultimately obtain a land use consistent 281Page