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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: March 20, 2001 RE: C-125 /Bill No. 32 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 2:55 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 32, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim per Communication No. 125, dated February 1, 2001, regarding the Change of Zone request by Joshua K. Leo at Kapoho and Halekamahina, Puna, Hawaii, TMK: 1-4-73: 27, reports as follows: Bill No. 32 amends Section 25-8-22 (Puna District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the district classification for approximately 3.232 acres of land from an Open (O) and Agricultural (A-la) to a Family Agricultural (FA-2a) zoned district. The rectangular-shaped subject property, owned in fee by the applicant, is located in the Vacationland Hawaii Subdivision on the northeast side of Halepueo Road. The applicant is seeking the change of zone so he can construct a farm dwelling. The current State Land Use classification is Agricultural, although prior to 1971, it was zoned Conservation. The State Land Use boundaries were designated in 1964 after the Vacationland Subdivision (1962 and 1963) was established. At that time, the subject property was split between the SLU Agricultural and Conservation District as were several other lots along the northern corner of the Vacationland Hawaii II subdivision. The SLU boundary lines were drawn using the Halekamahina land division as a dividing line without consideration of the subdivision. Because of the Conservation designation, when the Zoning Code was implemented in 1967, the parcel was placed in the Open (O) zoned district for consistency. In 1970, Vacationland Associates applied for a SLU Boundary Amendment to reclassify land from Conservation to Agricultural to be consistent with the remainder of the subdivision. A majority of the subdivision was within the SLU Agricultural district with an A-1 a zoning. On February 26, 1971, the SLU Commission approved the request, however, the County zoning remained at Open (O). The General Plan LUPAG Map classification is Orchards. Approximately .23 acre of the southwestern corner of the subject property is presently zoned Agricultual A-la. The Open designation does not allow for the development of a residence on the subject property. This change of zone request would permit the applicant to have one zoning designation on the property instead of being split, like we had seen earlier in the Hilbert change of zone request. PC-17