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PC-20 Page 2 April 3, 2001 where new settlements may be desirable, but where the specific settlement pattern and mix of uses have not yet been determined. Within areas designated for development as resorts, portions of the resort area may be included in the urban expansion area. The Kona Regional Plan, adopted by the Planning Commission in 1984, recommends the area for residential uses with a density of four units per acre. The County Zoning is Agricultural-5 acres. The subject property is located within the SMA boundary. Soils on the property are Kaimu, an extremely stony peat with rapid permeability, slow runoff, and slight erosion hazard and A`a, which generally consists of rough and broken masses of clinkery lava with practically no soil covering. Surface water percolates readily through the rough and broken lava. The ALISH classification is "Other Important Agricultural Land", which is defined as land other than Prime or Unique Agricultural Land that is also of statewide or local importance for agricultural use. The Land Study Bureau classifies the soils as "D" or Poor. The subject property is located within Zone "X", an area determined to be outside the 500-year flood plain. The U. S. Geological Service Lava Flow Hazard Maps show the area of the subject property to be within the Lava Flow Hazard Zone 4, which indicates that less than 15 percent of the land in this zone has been covered with lava in the last 750 years and 5 percent lava coverage in the past 200 years. None of the plant species are classified as rare or endangered. No endangered fauna species have been observed or documented in or around the project site. An archaeological inventory survey conducted by Archaeological Consultants of the Pacific Inc., dated July 2000 notes two significant sites, 22078 and 14652, were present on the subject property. Site 22078 consists of twenty-nine features, which they believe were used for historic and possible pre-Contact habitation, historic burial, and agricultural functions, which likely continued from the pre-Contact period through the post-Contact period. A portion of Site 14652, which contains an historic wall network, extends onto the subject property. The proposed project on the subject property, located mauka of Ali`i Drive approximately 1,900 feet from the shoreline and approximately 2,000 feet makai of the Kuakini Highway, will not impact views of the shoreline from Kuakini Highway as the topography and vegetation of the property would largely screen the development from mauka to makai view. Surrounding lands to the east and south are vacant. Lands further north and west are the Keauhou Estates, The Villas, and the Hale Kehau Condominiums. Lands in the area are zoned RS-7.5, RS-15, RM-l, RM-3, V-4. PC-20