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V <br />Dr. Holeka Goro Inaba, Council Chair <br />and Members of the County Council <br />December 22, 2025 <br />Page 4 <br />preservation." As the rezone area's RA-2.5a zoning is intended for rural, low density <br />residential development, ADUs are not permitted within the rezone area, which lies in the <br />State Land Use Rural District. <br />Despite this limitation, under HRS §205-2(c), "Rural districts shall include <br />activities or uses characterized by low -density residential lots of not more than one <br />dwelling house per one-half acre, except as provided by county ordinance pursuant to <br />section 464(c), in areas where `city -like' concentrations of people, structures, streets, <br />and urban levels of services are absent. " <br />However, HRS §46-4(c) authorizes that, "Each county may adopt reasonable <br />standards to allow the construction of two single-family dwelling units on any lot where a <br />residential dwelling unit is permitted. " Finally, these second dwellings would not be <br />required to be developed or classified as an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) as defined by <br />the zoning code. <br />Considering these statutory provisions and the State and County's legislative <br />intent to promote the development of additional housing units, the Planning Director is <br />inclined to permit the development of one (1) additional single-family dwelling on each <br />of the proposed lots within the rezone area, unless or until state law authorizes the <br />development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the State Land Use (SLU) Rural <br />District. <br />While the Planning Director supports allowing the construction of one additional <br />single-family dwelling on each of the proposed lots, he recommends revising the standard <br />fair share condition to address potential impacts on regional infrastructure (roads, <br />wastewater systems, police and fire protection, and public parks) related to the <br />development. <br />All utilities and services are available to the site. Access to the subject property <br />is from the southeast terminus of Kanehoa Place, a privately owned and maintained <br />roadway with a fifty (50) foot right-of-way with twenty (20) feet of asphalt paving. Both <br />proposed lots will have direct access from Kanehoa Place. <br />In the original application, the applicant sought a rezone to the Residential <br />Agricultural 2-acre (RA-2a) zoning district, which the Department of Water Supply <br />(DWS) opposed due to the potential for the 6.063-acre parcel to be further subdivided <br />into three (3) separate lots. As this is a new change of zone, §25-2-46(m) of the zoning <br />code related to concurrency applies and it requires that a zoning amendment application <br />shall not be granted unless the department of water supply has determined that it can <br />meet the water requirements of the project and issue water commitments using its <br />existing system. The DWS has indicated that the subject property is currently served by <br />two 5/8-inch water meters, and each meter is adequate to serve only one dwelling, based <br />