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ADDENDUM TO TESTIMONY OF PUNA COMMUNITY COUNCIL AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL PLAN Section 13-29. Amendments to the General Plan. Amendments to the general plan mau be initiated as follows: (a) Bu the countu council or the planning director. (b) Bu petition signed bu not less than one hundred voters registered in the past two general • elections with at least ten of the petitioners residing in each of the geographical areas of Puna, Ka'u, Kona. Kohala, Hamakua and Hilo. (c) Bu petition signed bu all of the owners and lessees of a specific parcel or group of contiguous parcels of real estate and filed with the planning director along with a One hundred dollar filing fee. Such a petition shall be limited to the amendment of the land use pattern allocation maps as it pertains to the subject real estate. The planning director mau specifu the form and content on the petition and mau require a specific environmental impact statement. No such petition mau be processed in conjunction with the comprehensive review. (d) Upon receipt of a properlu filed petition for amendment,the planning director shall have ninetu daus to studu it and recommend approval or denial in writing. e) Copies of the proposed amendment along with the planning director's recommendation shall be made available to the planning commission,the countu council,all executive branch staff agencies and the public at least 30 dans prior to a scheduled public hearing. The cost to the general public for copies of the general plan shall not exceed ten cents per document page nor Two dollars per large map page. The public hearing shall be advertised three weeks in advance in all newspapers of general circulation in the countu and the hearing shall be held within sixtu dans after the planning director's recommendation. (f) The proposed amendment alongwith recommendations of the planning director and the planning commission shall be submitted bu the mauor to the countu council within thirtu dans after the public hearing and within thirtu dans thereafter the countu council shall adopt or denu the requested amendment bu ordinance. , (q) lithe proposed amendment is denied bu the countu council,the same or a substantiallu similar proposal bu petition mau be denied bu the director of planning. • 560