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Harry Kim Christopher J. Yuen
Mayor Director
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PLANNING DEPARTMENT
101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 • Hilo, Hawaii 96720-3043
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Honorable Stacy K. Higa, Chair
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HAWAI'I COUNTY COUNCIL
25 Aupum Street
Hilo, HI 96720
Dear Chair Higa and Members of the County Council:
SUBJECT: GENERAL PLAN BILL 309
At the Council's Planning Committee meetings on July 31 and August 1, I suggested that
if the Council approved the proposed General Plan amendment deleting the "Annual
Report" currently required by sec. 15.3 of the General Plan, I would propose an annual
report to the Council by the Planning Director more closely related to land use issues.
This letter is meant to give more substance to that proposal,
I would suggest that the Planning Department be required by Council resolution to give
an annual report of land use changes on the island, and that this report would be put on
the Council Planning Committee agenda for discussion. The annual report would
summarize, for the past year:
• Rezoning actions
• State land use boundary amendments
• General Plan amendments
• Special permits, use permits, and SMA permits granted by the Planning
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and Members of the County Council
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• Major new subdivisions approved or applied for
• Overview of building permit activity
• Major projects pending approval
• Status report on major projects approved in past years
• Other land use information and trends
This kind of annual report would give us a chance to review and reflect upon what we
have been doing as a county in the land use area. Too often we deal with these issues
only on a rezoning-by-rezoning basis, and do not look at the big picture of what we are
doing overall.
I had also mentioned a summary of progress toward approved CIP projects, but that is
already the subject of a report from the Department of Finance.
I would be happy to discuss this further at the Council meeting on the interim General
Plan amendments.
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C ISTOPHER EN
Planning Director
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