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COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I PLANNING DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
KOMO BROTHERS LLP REPEAL STATE LAND USE BOUNDARY ORDINANCE NO. 99-149 (SLU-99-000009)
The Planning Director recommends that the Planning Commission forward a
favorable recommendation to the Hawaiʻi County Council on the request to repeal
Ordinance No. 99-149, which will revert the State Land Use Boundary District from Urban
to its original designation of Agricultural, for an approximately 7.794-acre portion of an
18.667-acre parcel of land.
All immediately surrounding properties are zoned Agricultural 5-acre (A-5a) and
are vacant, except for a church located immediately north of the rezone area, which was
established by Special Permit in 1979. Properties nearby, but at a distance away are
zoned Agricultural 5-acre (A-5a), Single-Family Residential 7,500 square feet (RS-7.5),
Single-Family Residential 15,000 square feet (RS-15), Residential Duplex 15,000 square
feet (RD-15), Residential Duplex 3,750 square feet (RD-3.75), Multiple-Family
Residential 1,000 square feet (RM-1), Multiple-Family Residential 2,500 square feet (RM-
2.5), Village Commercial 7,500 square feet (CV-7.5), and General Commercial 20,000
square feet (CG-20). Existing uses in the surrounding area primarily consist of residential,
commercial, agricultural, and vacant lands. Based on the existing surrounding land use
pattern and State Land Use classifications, reversion of the subject property to the
Agricultural District would be consistent with the immediate surrounding State Land Use
designations.
The proposed reversion would not be fully consistent with the General Plan Land
Use Map, which designates the subject property as Medium Density Urban. The Kona
Community Development Plan also identifies the property as being located within the
Urban Area and partially within a preliminary Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) area.
Notwithstanding these designations, the properties immediately adjacent to the subject
property have not been developed or converted to urban uses. Rather, the existing
surrounding land use pattern remains generally consistent with agricultural and lower
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intensity land uses. Based on these circumstances, the Planning Director finds that the
proposed reversion is consistent with the existing land use pattern in the immediate area
and is supportive of the requested reversion.
Given the preceding and noting that utilities, services and infrastructure in the area
is adequate to support uses allowable in the Agricultural District, the Planning Director
recommends that the Planning Commission forward a favorable recommendation to the
County Council for the repeal of Ordinance No. 99-149 which will revert the State Land
Use District classification from the Urban to the Agricultural District.
The accompanying draft bill to amend the State Land Use District Boundary Map
is provided for your favorable consideration. Please note as this draft ordinance repeals
Ordinance No. 99-149 and reverts the subject property back to its original district
classification of Agricultural, there are no proposed conditions attached to this draft bill.
COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I STATE OF HAWAI‘I
BILL NO.
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 99-149, WHICH AMENDED THE
STATE LAND USE BOUNDARIES MAP FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I BY CHANGING THE DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION FROM AGRICULTURAL TO URBAN AT HONUAULA, NORTH KONA, HAWAI‘I, COVERED BY A PORTION OF TAX MAP KEY NO. 7-5-003:024.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 99-149 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. The State Land Use District Boundaries Map for the County of Hawaiʻi is
hereby amended by reverting the district classification of the land situated at Honuaula, North
Kona, Hawai‘i, as more particularly depicted on “Exhibit A” and described in “Exhibit B”, both
of which are attached hereto and made a part hereof, from Urban to the original district
classification of Agricultural.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or
applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or
application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
(Planning Department)
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SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
_______________________________________ HEATHER KIMBALL
Council Member
BY REQUEST OF THE: Planning Director
_______________, Hawai‘i Date of Introduction: Date of 1st Reading: Date of 2nd Reading:
Effective Date:
State Land Use Commission; County of Hawaii, Planning Department.
AMENDMENT TO THE STATE LAND USE
BOUNDARIES MAPS
AMENDING THE STATE LAND USE BOUNDARIES MAP FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAIʻI,
BY CHANGING THE DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION FROM THE UBAN DISTRICT TO
THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT AT NORTH KONA, HAWAIʻI
TMK: (3) 7-5-003:024 (Portion)DATE: August 10, 2026
Komo LLP
MAP PREPARED BY:
COUNTY OF HAWAIʻI, PLANNING DEPARTMENT
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