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Maile David, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawaii Page 3 of 11 the LDU designation allows for residential, with ancillary community and public uses, and neighborhood and convenience-type commercial uses; overall residential density may be up to six units per acre. Thus, the proposed SLU Boundary Amendment and Change of Zone is consistent with the LUPAG LDU designation. The subject property is situated within the bounds of the Kona Urban Area, as designated by the Kona Community Development Plan (CDP). The CDP directs the majority of future growth of the region within the Kona Urban Area. Furthermore, the proposed boundary amendment would facilitate the rezoning of the property, which would be consistent with Kona CDP Policy LU-28 (2.)(b.)(ii.), which states, "Rezonings that promote infill are encouraged. The concept of infill is to connect two or more pre- existing developments. Infill is usually associated with small scale developments of 20 acres or less that have been leapfrogged by the surrounding or adjacent developments." Finally, the reclassification action would be consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of the Hawaii State Plan by providing urban type uses in close proximity to existing urban areas where adequate public facilities are already available and converting marginal or non-essential agricultural lands for appropriate urban uses while maintaining more productive agricultural lands in the agricultural district. The Urban classification conforms to the standard that the development is within reasonable proximity to centers of trading and employment and to basic services such as schools, police and fire protection, transportation systems and water. Access to the subject property is from Ihumoe Street, a County owned and maintained roadway and the proposed six (6) lot subdivision will be served by a private road conforming with the Department of Public Works (DPW) Standard Detail R-39 for a non-dedicable private dead-end street. Water is available for the number of habitable lots in the proposed subdivision and wastewater will be served by Individual Wastewater Systems (IWS) meeting the approval of the State Department of Health (DOH). All other essential utilities are available to the property. Police and fire services are available within five (5)miles of the site. Additionally, there is a public school, public library and a general store/gas station all located within 3 to 5 miles of the subject property. Urban Districts shall include lands characterized by "city-like" concentrations of people, structures, streets, urban level of services and other related land uses. This proposed reclassification action does not represent the creation of a new urban concentration, as the surrounding area is already an urban-like environment. As previously stated, there are several residential subdivisions adjacent to and makai of the subject property. Additionally, the Matsuyama Food Mart is located across Mamalahoa Highway on a Neighborhood Commercial (CN-20) zoned property situated to the east (mauka) of subject property. As these urban type uses already exist in the