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oNiv.or Mob c°•'' ~yl,i,~; Harry Kim Cluistopher J. Yuen Mayor Director 'rE a_.=_a'.'s r. Roj1 R. tI'a~temo[o Depurybiiector ~nixttf~r n~ ~ttfuttii - PLANNING DEPARTMENT 25 Aupuni Street, Room 109 • Hilo, Hawaii 96720-4252 (808) 961-8288 • Fax (808) 961-8792 January 22, 2003 Honorable Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd Chair Committee on Planning 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, HI 9670 Dear Chair Leithead-Todd: SUBJECT: BILL 17 - TMK: 2-2-40:14 and 69 APPLICANT: MATSUNO ENTERPRISES, LTD. At the last Council meeting on this application some members asked for further analysis of this project. It has also been significantly changed since it went through the Planning Commission in the previous administration. At that time, the Department of Transportation refused to allow direct access from Kanoelehua, so primary access was to be from Puainako. Now, DOT has agreed to access from Kanoelehua, subject to certain conditions and improvements, and Puainako is proposed as a right-in access only. Under the current proposal, which limits construction of the buildings to the area outside the flood zone, the project would consist of approximately 18,000 square feet of commercial buildings (because it is limited to uses requiring not more than 60 parking stalls, and the Zoning Code requires one stall for 300 square feet of commercial use.) The project would thus be an isolated commercial area on Kanoelehua about 700' Puna of the Puainako intersection. This property has two major constraints that make it very difficult to develop as a commercial site. First, the only area not in the flood zone is the high spot at the southwest corner along Kanoelehua; flood waters pond in the deep hole occupying most of the rest of the property. Second, the Puainako St. access is very difficult because of the short distance to the Pilipaa St. intersection. Comm. No, ~0. FSIe lief. oE' Itef. nat;~ JAN 2 Z003