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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 6 Traffic signalization improvements at the intersection of Kekuanaoa Street and Manono Street were completed in September 1995, with left turn lanes from Kekuanaoa to Manono Street. In conjunction with the signalization improvements, Kekuanaoa Street has been fully improved to 48 -foot wide pavement with 6 -foot wide concrete sidewalks, between Mililani Street and Hinano Street. Kekuanaoa Street serves as a main roadway from the Hilo airport to Kilauea Avenue. Existing accesses to the property are via Kalanikoa Street and Kekuanaoa Avenue. Kalanikoa Street has a 50 -foot wide right-of-way with 20 to 22 -foot wide pavement and grassed shoulders. Kekuanaoa Avenue has a 40 -foot wide right-of-way with 20 to 22 -foot wide pavement and grassed shoulders. According to the City of Hilo Zone Map, Kekuanaoa Avenue is proposed to be increased to a 60 -foot right-of-way and therefore, a 10 -foot wide future road widening section is located along that frontage of the subject property. No sidewalks have been constructed within the Kekuanaoa Avenue and Kalanikoa Street rights-of-way in the vicinity of the property. The applicants propose a one way ingress/egress asphalt concrete driveway access. Ingress is proposed from Kalanikoa Street and egress to Kekuanaoa Avenue. A condition of approval will be included to limit a right -turn only for the traffic egress from the subject property onto Kekuanaoa Avenue. The applicants would be providing the required number of parking stalls for the proposed project. It is recommended that no parking signs shall be installed along Kekuanaoa Avenue and Kalanikoa Street fronting the subject property. The Department of Public Works recommends that the entire frontages, except the access points, of the subject property along Kekuanaoa Avenue and Kalanikoa Street be improved with concrete curbs, gutters and sidewalks along with the necessary pavement widening and transitions, an intersection with minimum 20 -foot radius, drainage facilities, utility pole relocation and sidewalk transitions. It would be also recommended that the 10 -foot future road widening section fronting the subject property along Kekuanaoa Avenue and roadway improvements thereon shall be subdivided and dedicated to the County of Hawaii upon its completion. These roadway improvements shall be included as conditions of approval of the change of zone request. The adjoining parcel to the west of the subject property is presently vacant of any structures and to the south, is an abandoned dwelling. Lands in the immediate vicinity include single family residential uses to the north, west and south on lands zoned RS -10. In August 1992, the Planning Commission approved Use Permit No. 104 (Hilo Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine) to allow the establishment of a rehabilitation and physical therapy facility and related improvements on the southeast corner property of Kekuanaoa Avenue and Kalanikoa Street. This property is located immediately across and to the east of the project site. Non-residential uses in the