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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawaii Page 8 for an additional five (5) years through an administrative time extension, but if they had been granted such an extension construction of the proposed project should have been complete by August 8, 2015. The applicant waited over four (4) years to attempt to revive their stale ordinance and is only doing so now to either sell the property or secure a development partner for this and the adjacent commercial development. The applicant is now requesting to amend Condition C to require Construction to commence within five (5) years to be complete within ten (10) years of the effective date of the amended ordinance. In addition, the applicant is requesting the inclusion of our standard administrative time extension condition, which would effectively double the applicant's construction commencement timeframe to ten (10) years and completion timeframe to twenty (20) years. For both properties, the Planning Department requested that the applicant provide a detailed development timeline and plan for how they intend to complete construction within the extended timeframe requested, including any proposed phasing or trackable benchmarks. In response, the applicant provided the name and website of a potential development partner for the projects but did not provide the detailed documents requested. Although the applicant has developed some engineering plans for drainage and roadways over a decade ago, there has been no recent demonstrated performance of other conditions of approval, such as developing archaeological mitigation plans, finalizing highway access approvals, completing a sewer study and solid waste management plan, flooding/drainage improvements, water system improvements (or paid outstanding water commitments for 142 units), and executing an affordable housing agreement. Based on past these performance deficiencies and a lack of the requested development timeline, the applicant has not demonstrated, to the Director's satisfaction, the ability to develop the property in a timely manner. Based on the preceding, the Director feels that the requested time extension and other amendment requests without any trackable benchmarks would support the continuation of a speculative entitlement of the subject property for the purpose of resale. Based on the Kona Community Development Plan, which was approved with a tremendous amount of community input and involvement and to achieve consistency with the broad goals of the General Plan and the more specific regional goals identified in the Kona Community Development Plan, the Planning Director does not believe retention of the current zoning is appropriate in this area and is recommending that the applicant(s)