HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0526.004 2010-201219 January, 2012
Statement by Daniel Taylor, resident of Volcano
RE: Application for change of zone from RS -10 to CV -10 (Souza, Mtn View)
To the County Council Planning Committee:
I regret this application for a change of zone designation from Residential to Commercial is
being made without the benefit of a Village Center Long Range Plan for Mountain View. Absent
a community- driven long range village center plan, Council and other planning entities do not
know the vision residents of Mountain View might have for their community, and you must rely
only on the generalized and preliminary zone designations made by State, County, and non-
resident entities.
The Puna Community Development Plan presents a preliminary village center plan (PCDP, Fig 5-
5,) which indicates a residential zone classification for the property under consideration.
Indeed, most of Mountain View village is zoned for residential use, and a very small area is
zoned for commercial use. Clearly, more commercial zoning would be desirable for Mountain
View. It would be desirable to know where residents of Mountain View village want any more
commercial zoned land, and what kind of commercial activities they consider to be appropriate.
The auto repair shop proposed for this zone change application might appear to be in an area
that is suitable for commercial use. However, the nearest access to the Volcano Highway is the
junction with Nichols Road, but this junction does not have suitable visibility in either direction
and surely would constitute a hazard to traffic turning into or out of this road. Access via the
mauka end of Nichols Rd, via N Pszyk Rd, would require traffic to use a narrow, thinly paved
lane where the several residences there tie quite close to the roadway. They, and particularly
the property next -door to the applicant's proposed auto shop, would be negatively impacted.
Residents of the Mountain View community are negligent for not providing County Council with
guidance in the matter of this zone change application. They have been slow to organize
around the issue of long range community planning. The penalty for this is their being subject
to zone change approvals that they may later regret. Surely the applicant cannot be required to
wait for the community to prepare a plan, nor can the applicant be expected to provoke a
planning effort, as urgent as it is. My appeal to County Council is to be sensitive to a need for
comprehensive land use zonation for small, undeveloped, rural areas like Mountain View and to
anticipate that eventually the members of the community will provide you with a clearer vision
of what they want for their village.
If this change of zone application is approved, I surely hope you will impose mitigating features
that would protect the applicant's neighbors, and would not deliver yet another element of
visual blight along this cluttered segment of the Volcano highway corridor.
Comm. No. 526. V
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APPLICATION FOR ZONING CHANGE FROM RS -10 TO CV -10