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Honorable Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd, Chair COMMITTEE ON PLANNING County of Hawaii Page August 21, 2002 The development as described herein would need an Environmental Impact Statement, an SMA major permit, a special permit for any enclosed recreational facilities, a Planned Unit Development Permit, and a Conservation District Use Permit, as well as possibly a Shoreline Setback Variance, for a shoreline trail and park facilities. During the course of these applications the public will be able to comment on aspects of the project, and further planning will be done to identify burials, historical and cultural sites, and important natural features, and determine the best way to preserve them, and the best way to handle public access and public recreational use of the area. At present, the entire area, except for 40 acres along the coast that is in the State Land Use Conservation District, a band about 300' deep, is in the County's Agricultural-5 acre zone. This means that the Keopuka parcel of 620 acres could potentially be subdivided to about 124 five-acre lots. In the area mauka of the Old Government Road, the five-acre lots would only need a subdivision approval. The landowner would be entitled to subdivision approval by building the roads, water, and other infrastructure to county standards. Public access and protection of historic sites would also be conditions of subdivision approval, but otherwise, under present law, the landowner would have the right to subdivide this mauka area to about 69 lots. Between the Old Government Road and the area currently in the State Land Use Conservation District, any development, such as subdivision, would require an SMA permit. The owner could, with an SMA permit, potentially create up to 55 more lots (in addition to the 69 mauka lots) as close as 300' from the shoreline. The scenario set forth above has the effect of moving almost all the development away from the sensitive shoreline area, which also contains most of the recognized historic sites. The present General Plan maps have an "Open" designation along the shoreline, but the rest of the parcel is designated "Orchards" or "Extensive Agricultural". Neither designation offers any long-term protection or guidance for land-use decision-making.