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t i zoning district for 14.322 acres of land. The subject properties straddle the east and west sides of Lehua Street, north of the Hawaii Belt Road and south of the Honoka`a Park Complex, portion ofPapa`anui and Haina, Hamakua, Hawaii, TMK's (3) 4-5-024:010 and(3) 4-5-010;136, I mean colon 136. And Item#3 is applicant Lehua Village Partners, LLC, PL-PUD-2022-000001, application for a Planned Unit Development(PUD) for a 40-lot, single-family residential subdivision on 14.322 acres of land. The PUD would allow various exception from Chapter 23 3 and Chapter 25 of the Hawaii County Code. The subject properties straddle the east and west sides of Lehua Street, north of the Hawaii Belt Road and south of the Honoka`a Park Complex, portion of Papa`anui and Haina, Hamakua, Hawaii, TMK's (3) 4-5-024 parcel 010 and (3) 4-5- 01 parcel 136. The commission will take public testimony after the staff and applicant presentation. Staff presentation will be by Christian Kay. i KAY: Thank you Madam Chair. Good morning members of the Windward Planning Commission. If you give me a moment, I'm just going to share my screen here and we'll get going. Okay, so, if I can direct the commission's attention to the screens, you'll be able to see the presentation there. And again, as the Chair stated these two agenda items will present as one since they're complementary actions and applications. These are for a Change of Zone as well as a Planned Unit Development application. So, for reference the subject property is situated j within the Hdmdkua District of Hawaii island more specifically in the Honoka`a town area. We've got Hawaii Belt Road running generally east-west through the slide and the subject properties here are outlined in black. This road running north-south is Pakalana Street at the I intersection where Tex Drive-In is and again, we've got the Honoka`a Elementary School makai of the subject properties,the Park Complex as well as a hospital for your locational reference. So, before we get into the particulars of the applications. I wanted to kind of give you a quick and dirty primer on what a Planned Unit Development(PUD) is since this is the very first PUD that's being heard by any Planning Commission. So, according to our Zoning Code the purpose of a Planned Unit Development is to encourage comprehensive site planning that is cam, eom, pardon me. That is compatible with surrounding community and that adapts the design of the development to the land, by allowing diversification in the relationships of various uses, l buildings, structures, open spaces, and yards, building heights, and lot sizes in planned building groups, while still ensuring that the intent of this chapter of the Zoning Code is observed. A PUD application includes a list of requested exceptions from the Zoning and Subdivision Codes that will allow for a subdivision design that is a departure from a typical subdivision layout that's allowed by our Code. So, PUD permits are not new to the County they have been reviewed and approved by the Planning Department administratively since 1996. However, in 2015 the Zoning Code was amended by the County Council to shift the decision-making authority from the Planning Director to the Planning Commission. This is the first PUD that will be heard by a Planning Commission since the Code changed in 2015 so it's taken 7 years to get here. So, this will be a fun experiment. 2 EXHIBIT A(DRAFT)