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• Maintain a housing supply which allows a variety of choice. <br /> • Develop better places to live in Hawaii County by creating viable communities <br /> with decent housing and suitable living environments for our people. <br /> 8. County Zoning: Agricultural 10 acres (A-l0a). <br /> 9. SMA: The subject property is not situated within the SMA boundary. <br /> <br /> DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY AND SURROUNDING AREA <br /> 10. Subject Property: The subject property is an approximately 10.23 acre parcel located at <br /> the intersection of Kupulau Road and Koaniani Street. The site is vacant and overgrown <br /> with native vegetation such as guava, "Hilo" grass and other miscellaneous grasses and <br /> shrubs. <br /> 11. Topography: Fairly level with slopes of less than 10 percent. <br /> 12. Rainfall: The subject azea has a mean annual rainfall of about 100 inches. <br /> 13. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's Soil Survey Report: Soils on the <br /> site aze identified as Olaa Soil Series (OID). This series is chazacterized by extremely <br /> stony silty clay loams that formed in volcanic ash. These soils aze primarily used for <br /> sugazcane cultivation. Permeability is rapid, runoff is slow, and the erosion hazard is <br /> slight. The soil on a small southern portion of the site is identified as Ohia silty clay <br /> loam 0-10 percent (OHC). The surface layer is dazk brown and very dazk brown silty <br /> clay loam, and the subsoil is dazk reddish-brown and dazk brown silty clay loam. It is <br /> underlain by unweathered Pahoehoe Lava at a depth of 62 inches. The soil dehydrates <br /> irreversibly into fine gravel size aggregates. Permeability is rapid, runoff is slow, and the <br /> erosion hazard is slight. The soil is used mostly for sugazcane, pasture and woodland. <br /> 14. Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification System: Class "E" (Very Poor) <br /> and Class "C" (Fair) soils on the makai portions of the property. <br /> 15. Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) : Unclassified. <br /> 16. Flood Insurance Rate Map: According to the Department of Public Works, a small <br /> portion of the property at the intersection of Kupulau Road and Koaniani Street is in Zone <br /> "AE" (Special Flood Hazazd Areas inundated by 100-yeaz flood). Adjacent to Zone "AE" <br /> to the northwest is Zone "X" (Other Flood Areas - Area of 500-yeaz flood; azeas of 100- <br /> -3- <br /> <br />