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The Honorable Dr. Holeka Goro Inaba and Members of the County Council County of Hawai'i December 29, 2025 Page 2 The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's following reasons for a favorable consideration of the request. Criteria for granting the favorable recommendation are shown below in bold print. The applicant is requesting a Change of Zone from a Single -Family Residential-10,000 square feet (RS-10) zoning district to a Neighborhood Commercial-10,000 square feet (CN-10) zoning district for a 22,500-square foot parcel of land. The CN zoning district, with a minimum area required for each building site of 10,000 square feet, would allow a maximum density of two building sites (lots). In addition, although the applicants propose to construct a parking lot on the subject property, any permitted use in the CN-zoning district can be established on the property should the change of zone request be approved, including the potential maximum density of 18 double -family or multiple -family residential units. The applicant's objective is to construct a new member -facing credit union branch facility on the adjacent property (TMK 2-2-034:036) and to construct a 41- stall parking lot on the subject property for member and employee parking. The existing branch facility at 476 HTnano Street will be maintained and utilized for administrative, back -office operations. Two driveway entrances from the subject property onto HTnano Street are proposed, one allowing for both ingress and egress and the other limited to egress. Finally, the applicant intends to consolidate the subject property with the adjacent property (TMK 2-2-034:036) into an approximately 45,000-square foot parcel. The applicant anticipates that completing the proposed project will take about 10 years from the approval date of the Change of Zone, at an estimated cost of $4 million. In order to consider an area for any type of zoning designation, the applicable goals, policies, and standards of the General Plan must be adequately addressed. It is only through such a comprehensive policy analysis approach that evaluations and decisions can be made to better time and stage developments to achieve growth determined by the General Plan and related planning documents. The implications of these evaluations and decisions must also be considered as they may have an impact on similar areas in the County. The change of zone request from a Single -Family Residential-10,000 square feet (IRS-10) zoning district to a Neighborhood Commercial-10,000 square feet (CN-10) zoning district conforms to applicable goals, policies, and standards of the General Plan. The subject, 22,500-square foot, rectangularly shaped property is located at the 10-foot elevation level and was