2018-3-15_HCDP_RATIONALE FINAL UPDATED REVISION 05.21.2018 FINAL

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Rationale: See the rationale for corresponding Policy 8. Policy 14 To ensure the preservation of historic and cultural village character, provide technical support to develop Town Revitalization Plans. Rationale: This policy is an acknowledgement that more collaborative work is needed from both the community and the Planning Department in order to realize the goals and objectives of revitalized towns in the Hamakua Planning Area. This policy directs the County to provide the necessary technical support to communities interested in developing their own town revitalization plans, which may include assistance in forming associations for Business Improvement Districts to seek grant funding, etc. For more information, see pages 102-113 of Appendix V4C. See also Community Action 46. ;.1.6 `"ammunity Action See the Community Action Guide for more details about the rationale for community actions for this section. ../ Land Use Guide Maps Recommended Changes and Rationale Note: All references to the 2005 General Plan refer to the County of Hawai'i General Plan February 2005 (As Amended). Wainaku/Kaiwiki Land Use Guide Map Rationale: The Wainaku/Kaiwiki community is considered a 'bedroom extension' of Hilo due to its proximity and lack of urban core. The Land Use Guide Map directs future Low Density Urban growth within the existing urban neighborhoods along Wainaku Street and up an intermittent corridor up Kaiwiki Road until approximately the gym area. Along the lower section of Kaiwiki Road, it remains as consistent as possible with the current LUPAG LDU designation except that it is more parcel -specific at its southern edge (it eliminates splitting designations within parcels). The recommended change also designates LUPAG Rural for several parcels just mauka of Maikalani Street. In the area south of Kulana Kea Drive, the recommended change is to designate a few of these parcels as LUPAG Rural in order to keep this area consistent with its current land use as a large lot rural subdivision, to accommodate rural development, and preserve the larger agricultural parcels mauka for productive agriculture. In summary, the changes for Wainaku result in an overall shrinking of the LUPAG LDU area and add the LUPAG Rural Designation in some larger lots off Kaiwiki and some mauka of Ha'aheo School. The advantages to these proposed changes will be that growth at the Low Density Urban densities will be guided closer to Wainaku Street, while some areas mauka of the LDU areas will be Rural parcels to accommodate the desire for small family/subsistence farms and to preserve larger agricultural lands (mauka the gym) to remain intact for productive agricultural use. See the rationale for policies: 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 APPENDIX v5: HAMAKUA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN I Section 3: Policy Rationale — Preferred Settlement Patterns & Land Use