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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman <br />and Members of the County Council <br />Page 3 <br />Any uses permitted either directly or conditionally in the Agricultural or Intensive <br />Agricultural districts are permitted in an APD and the overall density permitted in an <br />APD shall not be greater than one acre per building site. Each of the proposed uses and <br />the overall densities for dwelling uses must be included in a master conceptual plan for <br />the APD and in the APD enabling ordinance. The minimum land area required for an <br />Agricultural Project District is five acres. <br />The project site consists of two contiguous parcels located approximately .6 miles <br />mauka of Pahala in an area formerly known as Meyer Camp. The camp, as well as other <br />camps in the general area, were abandoned and demolished by the plantation in the <br />1960's. According to Real Property Tax Office records, the applicant's dwelling and <br />equipment storage building are located on TMK: 9-6-5: 18. The properties are located <br />approximately five (5) miles from the ocean at an elevation of 1,300 - 1,900 feet. The <br />subject site has a variety of farm crops on approximately ten acres. The entire site was <br />formerly planted in sugar cane. There is a gradual 10 to 15 percent slope towards the <br />ocean in the lower parcel, TMK: 9-6-5:18. The upper parcel, TMK 9-6-6: 4, is steeper, <br />with slopes from 15 to 21 percent. Located within TMK: 9-6-5: 18 is parcel 47, a <br />County -owned parcel approximately 4,487 -square feet in size. Located within TMK: 9- <br />6-6: 4 is parcel 21, another County -owned parcel approximately 871 square -feet in size. <br />These two County -owned parcels are not part of this application. <br />The Change of Zone request from Agricultural (A -20a) to an Agricultural Project <br />District is consistent with the intent and purpose of the General Plan and the Zoning <br />Code. The requested change of zone to a Agricultural Project District would conform to <br />the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map, which designates <br />the property as Intensive Agriculture and Extensive Agriculture. Intensive Agriculture <br />includes lands used for sugar, orchard, diversified agriculture, and floriculture, and <br />Extensive Agriculture includes pasturage and range lands. <br />Soils on the site are classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil <br />Conservation Service as Moaula (MoC and MoE) and Naalehu Series (NaQ. The <br />Moaula and Naalehu series consists of well -drained silty clay loams. For the Moaula <br />series, permeability is moderately rapid, runoff is slow and the erosion hazard is slight. <br />For the Naalehu Series, permeability is moderately rapid, runoff is medium and the <br />erosion hazard is moderate. Soils within the properties are classified as "B" or "Good" <br />and "C" or "Fair" for agricultural productivity by the Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land <br />Classification System. Most of TMK 9-6-5: 18 (the lower parcel) is classified as "B" soil. <br />This is unusual. By way of comparison, only about 5 percent of the agricultural lands on <br />Hawaii Island are classified as "B". (There are no "A" classified soils). The Agricultural <br />