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June 14, 2006
Mr. Gianni Longo
PrincipaUOwner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
434 Broadway, Suite 406
New York, New York 10013
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
81-950 Onouli Road
Kealakekua, HI 96750
Mr. Eazl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
1907 South Beretania Street, Suite 400
Honolulu, HI 96826
Dear Messrs. Longo, Melrose and Matsukawa:
SUBJECT: KONA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN COMMENTS
This letter contains some suggestions and comments for the Kona Community
Development Plan. It comes after a review of the ideas and themes in the small group
meetings and from preliminary results of the larger group meetings. Some of these
suggestions build upon policies that aze already in the General Plan, but with more
emphasis on the current situation in Kona. Some suggestions amplify comments I made
to the Steering Committee on May 12.
I want to thank the Steering Committee and our consultants for the excellent work they y Z ~ ~ Z
have done so far, and I hope they find these suggestions useful and of some me Ref. o y~i~L
Ref. date 2007
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Hawaii Comity is an Equal OpporhmiN Provider and Employer.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 2
June 14, 2006
Overall Growth Policies
The CDP should contain an explicit discussion of growth: what causes it, and what the
general public policies should be toward it. We shouldn't simply take it as a given, but
we must also be realistic about the range of options to handle growth.
Most of the major themes and concerns expressed by the public in the small group
meetings-traffic, congestion, loss of open space, potential loss of historic sites-are
symptoms of rapid growth in population, with the accompanying land development.
North Kona grew from a resident population of 4832 in 1970 to 28,543 in 2000. After a
slump from 1992 to 1999, growth is surging again: about 3700 building permits for new
residential units were issued in the six-year period from 2000 to 2005.
Governmental policies can affect growth. The development of the Kona and South
Kohala coast from 1970 on was a result of deliberate policies. The State government
built the Queen Kaahumanu Highway, the Kona Airport, and Honokohau Harbor to
promote this as a visitor destination area. State and County authorities changed the
zoning and other land use designations for Kuki'o, Huaialai, Kaupulehu, and the various
South Kohala resorts to make them into resort centers.
Land development causes growth in different ways. Some development generates further
growth, like hotel development in a region with low unemployment, or second-home
development. For example, when the Hyatt Regency Waikoloa opened, it needed about
2000 employees, and it had to hire many people who did not then reside in the region.
Although much resort activity in West Hawaii now is centered on the second home
market, which generates less employment, those attracted to live in second homes can be
a significant element in the population. Visitors and other non-permanent residents can
be a major part of the population in a resort community: on Maui, they make up about
one-fourth of the people on-island at any given time.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 3
June 14, 2006
Growth-generating development induces a second type of development: the new
employees need housing, schools, and stores. The development to take care of these
demands can be called "growth-absorbing" development. Many of our problems exist
because while we have had the growth-generating development of hotels and second
homes, we have not had the growth-absorbing development of affordable homes for the
workforce and community infrastructure like adequate public highways, schools, and
parks.
So if governmental policies can cause growth, can policies, such as land use regulations,
limit the pace of growth?
It is important to recognize that there is no absolute growth control. Americans have a
constitutional right to travel and to settle within the United States. About 65% of the
population increase on this island has come from people moving in from elsewhere,
mostly the U.S. Mainland. (The remaining 35% is the excess of births over deaths.)
Most new residents choose to move here because of natural beauty, clean air and water,
and all the other amenities that we aze trying to protect, and people will continue to move
to Hawaii as long as it is a desirable place to live.
Although you cannot make a quota on the number of people allowed to live in Hawaii,
what about a limit on the number of sites people can move to? Some communities do use
zoning and other land use controls to limit their overall population. While land use
controls over where development can occur are crucial for our future quality of life, there
are several reasons why a strategy of strictly limiting building sites-not allowing any
new rezoning in North and South Kona, for example-would have some unintended
consequences.
First, it won't stop growth: a great deal of growth is possible under existing zoning,
particularly in the major resorts.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 4
June 14, 2006
Unfortunately, few of these zoned sites have any affordable housing requirements. Most
got out of them in the late 1990's. Economic forces ensure that these zoned sites will be
developed for the most lucrative markets, like affluent second home buyers and retirees
buying homes in Kona using equity from other high-cost areas like California. This
mazket will bid up the limited available sites.
Without some new zoning, there will be no place in the region for ordinary workers to
live, and they will commute from outside: from the Ocean View area, where there are
10,000 vacant lots, or from East Hawaii. (There were about 200 building pennits issued
for new homes in the Ocean View area for new residential units in 2005, vs. 481 in all of
North Kona, and only 78 in South Kona.)
We see the symptoms of this in the long line of cars heading south through Kainaliu or
east through Waimea in the late afternoon, carrying commuters from work to home. This
is a dysfunctional land use pattern. The road network cannot sustain it, and it is likely that
long-distance commuting will be an even less viable lifestyle in a few years for
ecological and economic reasons.
This is essentially why the Planning Department has supported recent rezonings in the
Kailua-Kona azea that were primarily geared to increasing housing opportunities: to
create some sites where the private sector is required to build affordable housing, to allow
workers to live closer to the job centers.
What should the specific policies be toward growth? We should be trying to absorb and
accommodate growth, rather than trying to boost it. There are some communities that
promote any growth-inducing development. This was the overall attitude of the state
government, at least, toward West Hawaii in the 1970's, and has at times been the
attitude of various elected officials in the County goverrunent. Unless the comments in
the small group meetings are vastly unrepresentative, this is not the current mood of the
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 5
June 14, 2006
public in Kona. People want to slow down and have infrastmcture catch up with the
growth that has already occurred.
We should have a cleaz reason for supporting rezorungs and other land use changes. The
typical reasons have to be that they will bring housing opportunities for low and moderate
income people, and/or the developer will build a portion of the regional road network.
We should oppose rezoning for growth-generating development like more hotels and
timeshares. These will exacerbate current problems with traffic and lack of affordable
housing. In particulaz, the proposed project around Honokohau Harbor, involving about
2500 hotel and timeshare uxrits, would be a huge growth generator in a region that is
already straggling with the effects of too-rapid growth.
Mixed Use
It is apparent from community input and from some statements made by the CDP
consultants that "mixed use" will be a major theme of the Kona CDP. "Mixed Use"
means that you may have multifamily buildings and commercial uses in close proximity
to single-family development. It was once the typical pattern in cities and towns. Zoning
was originally a tool to prevent mixed use, to protect residential areas from noxious
industrial uses, and, often, to enforce class segregation by keeping apartment buildings
(usually rentals) away from single-family homes.
Many planners today advocate mixed use as a tool to create communities that are less
auto-dependent (because stores and jobs maybe closer to homes) and to reduce sprawl.
Examples of "mixed use" areas in Kona are the older villages like Holualoa, Kainaliu,
and Captain Cook, "Hamburger Hill" above McDonalds in Kailua-Kona, and, on a more
limited scale, the small commercial area within "The Pines" development.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
We have to consider, however, how "mixed use" is going to be implemented. It is not a
magic formula in itself. Some enlightened developers have created successful mixed use
communities on the Mainland. If you have a private developer with enough ability, the
job of the public planning authorities is easy. But in Kona, where many of the remaining
land parcels aze relatively small, we are likely to find individual owners who want to
implement one part of the "mixed use" strategy, like commercial zoning on an acre of
land, in a way that may not be compatible with residential use.
In Hawaii County, some neighborhoods seem to have functioned well under "mixed use"
for many decades. We can also point to neighborhoods where the introduction of
commercial and multi-family zoning seems to drive out the single-family homeowners.
The land use tools we have in Hawaii County currently do not adequately ensure that
commercial zoning will be compatible with adjacent or nearby residential development.
We will need help in overhauling our zoning codes if we are going to implement mixed
use on a large scale. Currently, a mixed residential/commercial use would include either
an "RCX" (residential-commercial) zone, or a "CN" (neighborhood commercial) or
"CV" (village commercial) zone. Although the RCX zone was meant to mix small-scale
commercial uses in residential areas, it does not have clear limits. For example, it allows
"restaurants", but that could be anything from a little lunch shop to a big fast-food
restaurant catering to drive-through traffic. Similarly, the CN and CV zones allow a wide
range of uses that may or may not be compatible with nearby residences.
We also do not have the tools to require mixed use or higher density, unless it is made a
specific condition of a zoning ordinance. For example, Kona has had a couple of fairly
large residential projects which were zoned to include commercial areas, to create "mixed
use", where the developer ended up building homes in the commercial area, because the
commercial use did not prove viable, and homes are allowed in commercial zoning.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
Current zoning only regulates maximum density. Even though we may want a denser,
more clustered project to reduce sprawl, the developer can choose to build to a lower
density. We have examples of this occurring because the developer felt they could make
more money with lower density.
Unless these controls are put into rezoning ordinances on a case-by-case basis, which is
awkward and complex, we will need to revise the zoning code to ensure that mixed use
and clustered development do occur properly.
Specific ZoninE and Land Use Controls
In the earlier section about growth I discussed the limits on the ability to control the
overall amount of growth of a region through land use decisions. The land use system
does enable quite a bit of control over where growth occurs, though.
The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map embodies a land use
plan where most future urban growth in Kona is directed to the area roughly between
Keauhou and the Kau ahupua'a (currently the "Palamanui" development), and in the
existing coastal resorts north of Kailua-Kona: Manini'owali-Kuki'o-Hualalai Resort-
Kona Village-Kaupulehu. These growth areas are designated High, Medium, and Low
Density Urban, Resort, Industrial, or Alternate Urban Expansion in the LUPAG map. The
mauka extent of this urban growth is roughly along Hwy. 190 north of Palani Rd., and
roughly the old railroad grade between Palani and the Honalo Junction of Kuakini and
Hwy. 180 (the Old Mamalahoa Highway.) This is a very large area and needs to be
planned as a series ofsub-areas.
On the other hand, the LUPAG maps show very little future urban development in South
Kona, mostly along the Mamalahoa Highway in the vicinity of existing villages like
Captain Cook.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 8
June 14, 2006
The CDP should reinforce this land use plan. More specifically, in South Kona, the CDP
should contain a policy against large-scale rezoning ofagriculturally-designated land
(Important Ag, Extensive Ag, and Orchards in the LUPAG maps), and against rezoning
of Open and Conservation designated lands. The CDP should have a similar policy
against large-scale rezonings in North Kona outside of the designated urban azeas, with
exceptions that I will discuss below.
These policies against rezoning outside of the designated urban azeas will tend to focus
development in a more compact area, and preserve agricultural land and open space.
Most of the ag-designated lands in South Kona are currently zoned either A-Sa (mainly
those near the highway or makai of the highway) or A-20a (typically the more mauka
lands.) Lots can be subdivided to 5 acres in A-Sa zoning and 20 acres in A-20a zoning.
The rezoning policy would discourage conversion of the existing agricultural areas to lots
of I-3 acres in size. These tend to be more large-lot suburbs rather than truly agricultural
and if allowed on a large scale will greatly transform South Kona. Because of the
infrastructure and land costs, subdivisions of 1-3 acre lots are not going to be part of an
affordable housing solution.
The policy should not forbid small-scale rezoning, for example, a family that owns a 7
acre lot zoned A-Sa that wants an FA-3a rezoning to create a second lot. These kinds of
decisions can continue to be handled on a case-by-case basis. It should prevent, to give
another example, rezoning 100 acres currently zoned A-Sato FA-2a. This policy would
mean, for example, that you could not rezone a large area to do another Hokuli'a-type
project, on land not designated in one of the urban categories, or rural, on the LUPAG
map.
The policy should allow the reallocation of density within existing zoning. For example,
in an area of 1000 acres that is zoned A-20a, it should allow the reallocation of the same
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
Page 9
June 14, 2006
number of lots to some smaller and some larger lots. (This can already be done
administratively through an agricultural PUD.)
Also in the realm of exceptions, the county administration has been working with the
owner of the "Makalei" properties on a potential LUPAG map amendment to rural to
permit some rezoning just north of the current urban growth area in the LUPAG map, and
possibly some urban designation to accommodate onsite affordable housing. The public
purpose here is to secure cooperation with the implementation of the overall roadway
plan, which calls for a mauka-makai road within this property.
There has also been along-standing policy, based on two council resolutions, to permit
some rezoning within the Kaloko Mauka subdivision. See p. 8-3 and 8-4 of the 2005
General Plan.
The CDP should recognize the existence and validity of the Hokuli'a project, consistent
with the settlement of the court case. The County rezoned the area to permit one-acre
lots in 1994 and 1996, and has a development agreement recognizing its right to proceed.
Recognition of this project's right to proceed does not mean rezoning; it means
recognizing its existing zoning.
Planning for Specific Growth Areas
The CDP should give specific guidance for a number of sub-areas that are clearly going
to be developed into urban areas someday, and are designated for urban use in the
General Plan. Some of these cover different private owners and are hence difficult to
coordinate. The Planning Deparhnent is working with the owners on some of these, and
has a number of working principles, but the CDP should also have some clear guidelines
and overall principles.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
Keahuolu. See Map "1". This 300 acre parcel, located north ofPalani Rd., is an ideal
site for low and moderate income housing because it is centrally located neaz jobs and
schools. It is the only large state-owned parcel in Kona that is not "ceded land", hence its
development for eventual sale to homeowners should not produce the same legal
controversies that delayed the state project on adjacent Kealakehe property. It has had
azchaeological and botanical studies; there seem to be no insurmountable environmental
constraints. The 2006 Legislature appropriated funds (which have not yet been released)
to construct the "Mid-Level Road" extending Henry St. to the Kealakehe Parkway. This
is the key to access for this property, so that residents can go in either direction, to Palani
or to Kealakehe Parkway. The project has not been master-planned, however. It is
obvious that mauka-makai road connections must be planned to the Queen Liliuokalani
Trust property makai, and to the DHHL property mauka.
Kailua View Estates-Hualalai Rd: Pualaui Estates. See Map " 2". This area, mauka of
the Queen Kaahumanu Highway, between Kailua View Estates, Hualalai Rd., and
Pualani Estates, is mostly zoned A-Sa now, is in the state land use agricultural district,
but is alternate urban expansion in the General Plan, and is a logical area for future
residential development. It has a number of different private owners, which makes
coordinated development a challenge. There are also floodways that cross it. In keeping
with roadway access principles, it should be developed so that there is a circulation
within this entire azea pazallel to the Queen Kaahumanu Highway. In other words, there
must be access from the existing stubouts on the north (Kakalina and Melelina), and
connections to Hualalai Rd. and Puapuaanui Street. This would enable primary access
into this area to be taken from the existing intersections of Nani Kailua Dr., Hualalai Rd.,
and Puapuaanui Street, rather than creating a new intersection or intersections with
Queen Kaahumanu. In the zoning process, however, residents in the Kailua View Estates
area may oppose access from the side streets. For this reason, it is important to set
principles of development in the CDP. The Hualalai Rd. intersections maybe difficult to
engineer because of curves on Hualalai Rd. There should also be a collector road across
the mauka
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
end of this property as shown in the General Plan facilities map 2006 proposed interim
amendments.
Kealaka'a St: O'oma Homesteads. See Map " 3". This large area is north of Kealaka'a
St. and encompasses several different private owners, including property owned by
Lanihau Corp., a property now referred to as the "327" property, consisting of 327 acres,
the former "Y.O." property, now owned by Stanford Carr Development, and property in
O'oma Homesteads, recently brought under one ownership, the Shopoff Group. Most of
this area is in the state land use agricultural district and is zoned A-Sa, but is either low
density urban or alternate urban expansion in the LUPAG map. The Stanford Carr
property is zoned for residential use, with commercial zoning near Hina Lani St., and is
in the state land use urban district. Again, this is a logical area for future residential
development. The Planning Department has been in discussions with the various
landowners to make sure that future development includes: (1) the extension of Kealaka'a
St. across Hina Lani and on to Holoholo St. in the north, according to the General Plan,
(2) the preservation of a corridor for the future extension of the Kealakehe Parkway to the
Mamalahoa Highway (because of grade, this will be an extremely expensive section of
road to build and will probably not be accomplished in the near future), (3) the mauka
extension of Kealakehe Parkway to Kealaka'a in tandem with private development of this
area, and (4) some secondary parallel north-south connections between developments. If
Kealaka'a is extended to Hina Lani, and the county builds the planned Manawale'a St.
extension between Kealaka'a and the Kealakehe Parkway, residents in the mauka Kalaoa
area will be able to use these streets to get to the Kealakehe High School and the planned
County Civic Center. If the Mid-Level Road is built from Kealakehe Parkway to Henry
St., they can get to the center of Kailua-Kona without using Queen Kaahumanu or Palani.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation ,
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June 14, 2006
Long-term Protected Open Space
One of the major public concerns is long-term preservation of open space. We should
recognize that much of the Kona coastline is currently protected by virtue of being in
public ownership and dedicated to park use, and that by consistently applying current
land use controls we can protect much of the remaining coastline that is not currently
zoned for development. There are also ongoing efforts to protect mauka lands. .
In particular, the vision of a 15-mile protected coastal park from the Kuki'o Resort to
Honokohau Harbor is close to being achieved. Maps "4" and "5" show this azea. Most
of this coastline belongs to the state, and much of the state land is protected by being
under executive order as the Kekaha Kai State Pazk. The remaining state land contains
areas north of the Kona Airport, which will not be developed because of airport noise
(among other reasons), the airport itself, and NELHA. While these may not be all
formally dedicated to park use, they will function as long-term coastal open space. The
azea between Kohanaiki and Honokohau Hazbor is protected as the Kaloko-Honokohau
National Historical Pazk.
Within this 15 miles of coastline, there are four large private properties:Manini'owali,
Makalawena, O'oma 2d, and Kohanaiki. The Manini'owali project has land use
approvals, but private ownership is set back 1000' from the shoreline and there is another
400' setback to the homes. Makalawena is owned by Kamehameha Schools. Although
the owner applied for a resort in 1987, that was withdrawn and Kamehameha Schools'
last discussion with the Planning Department was that they want to keep the property as a
natural resource for their educational programs. It is in the state land use conservation
district, and is conservation in the General Plan, so existing land use controls prevent
major development. South of NELHA, O'oma 2d is also in the state land use
conservation district. The 2005 General Plan LUPAG map shows an "Open" area along
the coast 1200'-1800' deep, with the remainder of the property as "Alternate Urban
Expansion", so any future land use approvals should include this major setback from the
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
ocean. Finally, Kohanaiki is being developed under the terms of a 2003 SMA permit that
requires homes to be 500'-800' from the shoreline, although there will be a small
residents' beach facility near the shoreline. The Kohanaiki coastal area will be dedicated
to the County in the near future under the terms of the SMA permit.
The CDP should reinforce the vision of this long-term protected coastal open space area.
Unfortunately, there is relatively little public open space along Alii Dr. between Kailua-
Kona and Keauhou. The lack of such space was one major reason for the county's recent
acquisition of the "Honl's" property for $3 million.
Between Keauhou and Napo'opo'o, the coastline is currently almost all undeveloped
except for a few homes. The Hokuli'a development is required to keep its coastline as an
open space park, with a depth of 300' from the shoreline in most areas. The proposed
interim LUPAG map amendments include a redesignation of most of the coastal area
between Hokuli'a and Napo'opo'o as "Conservation".
The National Park purchased 238 acres in Ki'ilae, adjoining the Pu'uhonua o Honaunau
National Park, which will also be protected as open space and as a historic site.
On mauka lands, the U.S. Forest Service has recently acquired a conservation easement
over portions of McCandless Ranch, and has a program that can acquire more such
easements.
It would be very helpful if the CDP would suggest open space strategies for the preferred
growth areas, like those listed earlier. Although these are logical places for future
development, there should be open areas within these developments. The current General
Plan does not really address this.
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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June 14, 2006
Roads and Traffic
The County will be releasing a "County Action Plan" for Kona roads very shortly, which
we will also share with the Community Development Plan consultants and Steering
Committee. We hope that it can be adopted as part of the CDP, with whatever
modifications and improvements that come from the CDP process. It embodies many of
the concepts in the interim General Plan amendments for roadways, with specifies about
timelines and funding.
I will be happy to discuss any of these topics further with the Steering Committee and our
consultants.
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Planning Director
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cc: Mayor Hany Kim
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Members of the Kona Community Development Plan Steering Committee
Mr. Roy Takemoto
Mr. Brad Kurokawa
Long Range Section
Planning Section
Mr. Gianni Longo
Principal/Owner
ACP-Visioning & Planning, Ltd.
Mr. Kenneth M. Melrose, Chair
Kona Community Development Plan
Steering Committee
Mr. Earl Matsukawa, AICP
Director of Planning Consulting Group
Wilson Okamoto Corporation
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