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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman <br />and Members of the County Council <br />Page 3 <br />miles from the urban/retail/employment center of Kailua-Kona and .5 miles from the <br />urban/retail/employment center of Keauhou, and thereby conforms with the Land Use <br />Commission Rules which encourages urban developments in close proximity to existing <br />developments and in close proximity to existing services and facilities. <br />The property is or will be provided with all utilities and services that are essential <br />to accommodate urban development. Water will be made available to the project site. <br />Kamehameha Investment Corporation, the developer of the adjacent Bayview Estates <br />Subdivision currently has water commitments from the County Department of Water <br />Supply adequate to accommodate the development. The He'eia Waste Water Treatment <br />Plant (HWWTP), a privately owned facility, will service the project. Wastewater <br />disposal systems will meet with requirements of the Department of Health and/or the <br />Department of Public Works. Access to the property will be via a subdivision roadway <br />from the adjacent Bayview Estates at Keauhou Subdivision. This roadway will be open <br />to public traffic. Electrical service is available to the property from Hawaii Electric Light <br />Co Inc, and telephone service is available from GTE Hawaiian Tel Utility Imes will be <br />located underground. Police services are provided by the County of Hawaii from its <br />Captain Cook station and Kealakehe substation. Fire protection is also provided by the <br />County of Hawaii from its Kailua-Kona, Keauhou and Captain Cook stations. <br />Emergency medical and paramedical services are also provided by the Hawaii County <br />Fire Department. The nearest available public health facility is the Kona Community <br />Hospital located at Kealakekua. Due to the relatively small size of the proposed <br />subdivision, and the profile of potential buyers, it is not anticipated that the project will <br />generate increased impacts on area schools and parks. <br />The property has no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be <br />properly rectified or which would render the land unusable. The Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) designates the property as Zone <br />X, areas determined to be outside the 500 -year flood plain. Any improvements to the <br />property must comply with Chapter 27 of the County Code relating to Flood Hazard <br />Control The U S. Geological Service Lava Flow Hazard Maps show the area of the <br />subject property, as is all of the Kona area, to be within Lava Flow Hazard Zone 4, which <br />indicates that less than 15 percent of the land in this zone has been covered with lava in <br />the last 750 years and that there has been 5 percent lava coverage in the past 200 years <br />The County of Hawaii Binlding Code identifies the entire island of Hawaii in Earthquake <br />Zone 4 and contains certain structural requirements to address the relative seismic hazard <br />Thus, the reclassification does meet with the standard which states that the lands <br />included within the Urban District " shall be those with satisfactory topography and <br />drainage and reasonably free from the danger of floods, tsunami and unstable soil <br />conditions and other adverse environmental effects " <br />