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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman <br />and Members of the County Council <br />Page 8 <br />providing utilities." The He'eia Waste Water Treatment Plant (HWWTP), a privately <br />owned facility, will service the project. Wastewater disposal systems will meet with <br />requirements of the Department of Health and/or the Department of Public Works. <br />Electrical service is available to the property from Hawaii Electric Light Co. Inc., and <br />telephone service is available from GTE Hawaiian Tel. Utility Imes will be located <br />underground. Police services are provided by the County of Hawaii from its Captain <br />Cook station and Kealakehe substation Fire protection is also provided by the County of <br />Hawaii from its Kailua-Kona, Keauhou and Captain Cook stations Emergency medical <br />and paramedical services are also provided by the Hawaii County Fire Department. The <br />nearest available public health facility is the Kona Community Hospital is located at <br />Kealakekua Due to the relatively small size of the proposed subdivision, and the profile <br />of potential buyers, it is not anticipated that the project will generate increased impacts on <br />area schools and parks. The applicant will abide by all applicable State and County air <br />quality and noise level control standards during the pre -construction and construction <br />phases of the project. Therefore, the proposed single-family residential development will <br />be developed in an area that is or can be adequately served by water, sewers, utilities, <br />police, fire and medical services, and transportation systems. <br />The Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) indicate that the property is located in <br />Zone "X," areas determined to be outside of the 500 -year flood plain. There are no <br />significant drainageways anticipated. While there are no indications of surface water <br />flow on-site, the applicant will abide by all applicable County guidelines for run-off <br />generated by the development. The U S Geological Service Lava Flow Hazard Maps <br />show the area of the subject property, as is all of the Kona area, to be within Lava Flow <br />Hazard Zone 4, which indicates that less than 15 percent of the land in this zone has been <br />covered with lava in the last 750 years and that there has been 5 percent lava coverage in <br />the past 200 years. The County of Hawaii Building Code identifies the entire island of <br />Hawaii in Earthquake Zone 4 and contains certain structural requirements to address the <br />relative seismic hazard. <br />According to the applicant's Environmental Report, the property is almost entirely <br />covered with grass and stands of koa haole. Plant species found in the area are common, <br />mostly alien, species: (1) trees such as kiawe, kukui, African tulip, noni and monkeypod; <br />(2) shrubs such as koa-haole, Christmas bevy, klu, castor bean and sodom apple, and (3) <br />common herbs such as bermuda grass, spiny pigweed, four-o'clock, beggar's tick, <br />Sacramento bur, goose grass, heliotrope, sow thistle, rattle pod, finger grass, crab grass, <br />and sand bur Bindweed, coccinea, and koah awahi'a represent the vine types None of <br />these plant species are classified as raze or endangered. Of the native plant species found <br />in the vicinity, many are weedy varieties and are able to compete in the face of <br />disturbance or invasion of other weeds <br />