Opinion ID: 3164956
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The LUC’s DO

Text: The LUC reclassified the Petition lands from the state agricultural land use district to the state urban land use district, subject to conditions that are not relevant on appeal. The LUC’s D&O was 186 pages long and contained 666 findings of fact (“FOFs,” or “FOF” in the singular), 32 conclusions of law (“COLs,” or “COL” in the singular), and 26 conditions. Relevant to this appeal, the LUC rendered 8 FOFs concerning the need for the proposed project; 22 FOFs concerning the proposed project’s impact on agricultural resources in the area; 11 FOFs finding that the Petition area would not be designated as IAL; and 39 FOFs addressing the proposed project’s consistency with the Hawaii State Plan. That left nearly 600 other FOFs detailing procedural matters; economic impacts; social impacts; impacts on flora, fauna, arthropods, archaeological and historical resources, cultural resources, groundwater resources, and scenic resources; environmental quality; public services and facilities such as highway and roadway facilities, parks and recreational facilities, water service, wastewater disposal, drainage, solid waste disposal, schools, police and fire protection, emergency/medical services, and electricity and telephone services; and conformance to other state and county plans such as the Hawaii State Functional Plan, the General Plan for the City and County of Honolulu, and the Ewa Development Plan, as 23  FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAII REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER  well as the Coastal Zone Management Program. Clearly, these latter findings are not relevant on appeal.