What this law is called and why it exists

This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "West Kaua'i Community Plan Implementing Ordinance." It is adopted:To provide design and development standards in order to implement the detailed planning goals and objectives for the West Kaua'i Planning District;To establish special planning areas, future growth areas, land uses, and development and design standards to guide and regulate future development;To protect certain physical characteristics found to be of particular public value, as provided in Chapter 8, Article 11, Section 6, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Special Planning Areas); andEstablish exceptions, modifications, or additions to the provisions of Chapter 8, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance) and Chapter 9, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Subdivision Ordinance) in order to more specifically provide for the regulation of land use, subdivision, and development practices within the West Kaua'i Planning District.Nature of the West Kaua'i Community Plan Ordinance. This Article provides the necessary framework and guidelines to direct future development and capital improvements in the West Kaua'i area, whose boundary is described in the report entitled "West Kaua'i Community Plan." Additionally, this Article supplements Chapter 8, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance) and Chapter 9, Kaua'i County Code 1987, as amended (Subdivision Ordinance) by regulating use and development standards within the West Kaua'i Special Planning Areas, as identified in the zoning maps or surveyed maps, or both, attached to Ordinance No. 1083, Ordinance No. 1138, Ordinance No. PM-2025-425, and Ordinance No. PM-2025-426, and on file with the Planning Department, County of Kaua'i.The guidelines of this Article are based on the report entitled "West Kaua'i Community Plan" (Planning Commission draft approved in 2020, as amended by the Kaua'i County Council in 2020, 2022, 2025, and as may be subsequently amended), a booklet whose major components include:Regional and town plan maps;Policies for the West Kaua'i region as a whole;Goals and objectives for Kekaha, Waimea, Hanapēpē, 'Ele'ele, Port Allen, Kaumakani, Pakala Village, Numila, and other areas; andAppendices.