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Home My WebLink AboutRES 464 Draft 02 2012-2014 COUNTY OF HAWAII - • .•. STATE OF HAWAII • • RESOLUTION NO. 464 14 (DRAFT 2) A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PLANNING DIRECTOR TO INITIATE AN INTERIM AMENDMENT TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII GENERAL PLAN TO REVISE THE LAND USE PATTERN ALLOCATION GUIDE MAP DESIGNATIONS FOR THE KEA'AU REGIONAL TOWN CENTER, KEA`AU, PUNA, HAWAII. WHEREAS, on September 10, 2008, the County of Hawai`i ("County") adopted the Puna Community Development Plan ("CDP") by Ordinance No. 08-116 with the themes of preserving and respecting natural, historical and cultural features, addressing growth management and focusing on sustainable approaches to transportation; and WHEREAS, to manage growth by encouraging a more efficient and environmentally- sustainable land use pattern, the Puna CDP designated specific parts of Kea'au as a Regional Town Center(Exhibit A) to provide a wide range of commercial,residential and public/quasi- public uses for the Puna district in addition to Regional Town Centers in Pahoa and Hawaiian Paradise Park; and WHEREAS, the Puna CDP, as amended by Ordinance No. 10-104, sets forth the following objectives and actions relating to regional town centers: Land Use Pattern Objective 3.1.2.c "Enhance the role of existing and new village/town centers by allowing expanded commercial uses, facilitating the development of farmers markets and community gathering places, opportunities for special needs housing, and infrastructure to support more compact development form and multi-modal travel." Land Use Pattern Objective 3.1.2.e "Target investments in public services and infrastructure to promote the development of village/town centers and, secondarily, to serve the peripheral subdivision areas." Land Use Pattern Action 3.2.3.c "Recommend reviewing the Urban Expansion Area designations in the County of Hawai`i General Plan LUPAG, except where they correspond to the recommended Regional Town Center and industrial boundaries."; and WHEREAS, the County of Hawai`i General Plan ("General Plan") Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map designations for the Kea'au Regional Town Center area are inconsistent with the Objectives, Actions and Land Use Recommendations of the Puna CDP; and WHEREAS, there are inconsistencies between the existing zoning designations and the General Plan LUPAG map designations in the areas in the vicinity of Ulupono Street and Milo Street; and WHEREAS, the Kea'au Regional Town Center includes a range of public and quasi- public facilities such as Kea'au Elementary, Middle and High Schools, the Department of Education administrative complex office, `Ola`a Community Center, police and fire stations, the County's Shipman Gym, and the County's Herbert C. Shipman Park (mauka of Highway 11), charter schools, senior citizen housing and self help housing facilities, churches and related facilities; and WHEREAS, the Kea'au Regional Town Center presents an opportunity to apply the following smart growth principles, which are discussed in the Puna CDP: • Creating walkable neighborhoods • Creating a range of housing opportunities and choices • Fostering a distinctive community with a sense of place; mixing land uses • Preserving open space, agricultural land, and critical habitats by directing growth to an existing village • Taking advantage of compact building design and • Providing a range of transportation choices; and WHEREAS, future development of the Kea'au Regional Town Center would provide a basis for efficient road, bikeway and pedestrian networks, improved wastewater treatment, the ability for government to develop a new civic/community center and transit hub to serve upper and lower Puna, expanded or new parks and open space, greater water capacity, increased employment, affordable housing, and other necessary public and quasi-public infrastructure; and WHEREAS, in order to meet the aforementioned objectives of the Puna CDP to facilitate future land use entitlements and enhance the role of the Kea'au Regional Town Center, including the Puna CDP's statement that zoning for residential development and associated neighborhood-oriented services "may occur within the LUPAG `alternate urban expansion areas'," the General Plan should be more closely aligned to the Puna CDP similar to action taken in 2012 for the Pahoa Regional Town Center by Ordinance No. 12-89; and 2 WHEREAS, because of the inconsistencies between the General Plan LUPAG map and the Puna CDP recommendations, growth within the Kea'au Regional Town Center has been primarily confined to a core in which specific settlement patterns have not yet been fixed and which is currently designated Medium Density Urban by the General Plan-LUPAG (Exhibit B), with limited opportunity in the Low Density Urban area for higher density residential units and retail and office commercial uses to support the regional town center; and WHEREAS, on February 9, 2005, the County adopted comprehensive amendments to the General Plan by Ordinance No. 05-25 to guide the pattern of future development in Hawaii County based on long-term goals; and WHEREAS, the comprehensive review of the General Plan, as required per Section 16.1 of the General Plan, has not commenced; and WHEREAS, Section 16.2, of the General Plan provides that the Planning Director may initiate interim amendments to the General Plan in accordance with the terms and provisions of Section 16.2(2); and WHEREAS, amending Map 14 of the General Plan LUPAG from Low Density Urban and Important Agricultural Land to Urban Expansion Area will assist in implementing the Kea'au Regional Town Center principles and designation of the Puna CDP; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it requests the Planning Director to initiate the following interim amendments to the General Plan in accordance with Section 16.2(2) of the General Plan: 1. Amend Map 14 by changing the General Plan LUPAG map designation for the areas within the Kea'au Regional Town Center locations designated on the Puna CDP as Low Density Urban and Important Agricultural Land to Urban Expansion Area. 2. Amend Map 14 by changing the General Plan LUPAG map designation for the areas located in the vicinity of Ulupono Street and Milo Street from Low Density Urban to Urban Expansion Area. 3 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council is desirous of these amendments because it supports the Kea'au Regional Town Center principles and designation adopted in the Puna CDP and determines the development of the Kea'au Regional Town Center will serve the interest of the public by stimulating growth through sustainable principles that will provide for improved public infrastructure systems and facilities, direct and indirect employment, and a continued sense of place outlined herein, in the Puna CDP, and in the General Plan. BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Mayor William P. Kenoi, Planning Director Duane Kanuha, and the Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions. Dated at Kona , Hawai`i, this 18th day of July , 2014. INTRODUCED BY: COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE County of Hawai`i AYES NOES ABS EX Hilo, Hawai`i EOFF X FORD X I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by ILAGAN X the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the KANUHA X County of Hawai`i on July 18, 2014 KERN X ONISHI X ATTEST: POINDEXTER X WILLE X YOSHIMOTO X • 9 0 0 0 Reference: C-934.1/PC-69 COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON &PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 464 14 (DRAFT 2) 4 EXHIBIT A Figure 5-1: Kea'au Regional Town Center tit'lily, �-- 1 .oki li n ''�,e� , \\\) Keaau Regional.VC y >, -,:.....z., ,..,:-. , K., .i., ,:s .... i.e. .i..******* ,6 ,t,,, -,, . .,„ ,,,.., .. . •. • , 2 • i , .".} -7:--,-,... • Preliminary '' Keaau Regional ••• �' ....r Town Center ,• Boundary •• � .: ('omnutnd) Facilitics •r• � 3 j _,SIIIllrhnn 41 . •• ' Exiitlag Zoning ••r•••u•....r++------ Cornmereinl Znnc {' Residential Zone ( ,..,n nt nut i L.JscS IIIN loduatnal Gone (Agricultural Zone I L..._ n.«, -Open Zone C A . 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