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PC-23 Page 3 June 5, 2001 The current State Land Use designation is Urban. The current General Plan LUPAG Map designates the subject property for Industrial uses, which include manufacturing and processing, wholesaling, large storage and transportation facilities, and light industrial uses. The Kona Regional Plan adopted by the Planning Commission in April 1984, designates the area for Urban Expansion. The Keahole to Kailua (K to K) Development Plan, adopted on April 3, 1991, designates the area for Commercial/Industrial uses. The subject property is not part of the Kailua Village Special District. The subject property is wholly situated within the Special Management Area boundary and the SMA Use Permit No. 201, which was approved for the petitioner's earlier proposed project, will also cover this proposed mixed-commercial-industrial use. The U.S.D.A classification for the predominant soil is Pahoehoe, which has slow permeability, slow surface runoff and slight erosion hazard. Along the mauka edge of the project area lie the Punaluu and the Aa soils, which respectively consist ofwell-drained rocky peat and rough and broken masses of clinkery lava with practically no soil covering. The ALISH classification for the subject property does not classify the soils as having any agricultural importance. The Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification System classifies the soils as "E" (Very Poor) for agricultural productivity. In 1989, Philip Bruner completed a Survey of Avifauna and Feral Mammals and no resident endemic species of land or water birds, migratory or indigenous birds or seabirds, or endangered species of feral mammals were observed. to February 1999, Char and Associates conducted a botanical survey and found 57 introduced species, one of early Polynesian introduction and eight native plants. The native species are the ilima, koali awa, iliee, alahee, aalii, and uhaloa. In 1993, Paul H. Rosendahl, Ph.D., Inc., completed an Archaeological Inventory Survey of the subject property and identified 18 sites of significance. No further work was deemed necessary at 12 of the sites and further data collection was recommended for four sites. The burial site was referred to the Hawaii Island Burial Council and they recommended that the site be preserved in place with a 30-foot buffer zone. The subject property is located within Zone "X", an area determined to be outside the 500-year flood plain. PC-23