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Maile David, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawai`i August 17, 2022 Page 5 will be done through an affordable housing agreement between the applicant and the County Office of Housing and Community Development pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Hawai`i County Code, that will be executed prior to receipt of Final Subdivision Approval for any portion of the project.The preceding will be added as a condition of approval. Based on the preceding, the proposed RS-15 zoning conforms to the goals, policies and standards of the General Plan and the Hamakua Community Development Plan(CDP). All utilities and services are available to the site. Proposed access to the subject properties is from Lehua Street, a curvilinear, two- way, two-lane local roadway, between Pakalana Street and the Honoka`a County Park complex. Sight distances along Lehua Street are limited by its horizontal and vertical alignments and roadside vegetation and embankments. Lehua Street is a County owned and maintained roadway with an approximately 21- to 22-foot-wide pavement (in the area of the subject parcels) within an existing 50-foot-wide right-of-way. Both Lehua Village 1 and Lehua Village 2 will have a roadway connection from Lehua Street to a private subdivision roadway consisting of 20-foot-wide pavement and 10-foot-wide grass shoulders within a 40- foot-wide right-of-way. Each private roadway will end in an alternative "hammerhead" turn- around in lieu of a traditional cul-de-sac meeting with the requirements of the Fire Department. Finally, a condition of approval will require these private roadways to be maintained by the lot/homeowners. According to the Department of Public Works-Engineering Division, all road connections and construction within Lehua Street shall conform to Chapter 22, County Streets, of the Hawai`i County Code and access to Lehua Street, including the provision of adequate sight distances, shall meet with the approval of the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division. This will be added as a condition of approval.. According to the applicant, there will be no direct driveway access from individual lots to Lehua Steet as all driveway accesses will come off of the proposed private roadways. To ensure that this remains the case, a condition of approval requiring a 10 foot-wide no vehicular access planting screen easement be incorporated on properties with frontage along Lehua Street will be added. While the proposed 40-lot subdivision did not trigger a Traffic Impact Analysis Report(TIAR)under the Zoning Code's concurrency requirements, the applicant submitted a Traffic Analysis Report (TAR) dated May 22, 2020, that considered the traffic impacts for a larger, 80-lot subdivision including the subject properties and a third, adjacent parcel. The report studied the potential impact of traffic at the Hawai`i Belt Road/Pakalana Street and Pakalana Street/Lehua Street intersections and determined that with the addition of