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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: February 1, 2005 RE: Communication No. 821/Bill No. 355 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:30 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 355, reports as follows: Mayor Harry Kim transmitted Bill No. 355 via Communication No. 821 on October 15, 2004. Bill 355 proposes to amend the state land use district boundary map H-65 by changing the district classification for approximately 4.182 acres of land from the agricultural district to the urban district. Continental Pacific. LLC has requested this change at Makahanaloa, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-8-8:103, Por. 103, Por. 104. Por. 95, and Por. 3. The Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by the Hawaii County Charter, Chapter 4. Section 6-4.3(c), considered this request and accompanying Bill No. 355 on October 15, 2004. 'I~he Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this matter. The Planning Commission found: 1. The applicant is the owner of the property. 2. "I'he property is in the area of the former Pepeekeo Mill complex and surrounding former sugar cane lands at Pepeekeo, South Hilo, Hawaii. 3. The applicant is also requesting a concurrent change of zone (Bill 356) from village commercial (CV-10), limited industrial (ML-20), and general industrial (MG-Sa) to single family residential (RS-20) and from agricultural (A-20a) to limited industrial (ML-20). 4. The applicant is requesting the state land use boundary amendment and the change of zone so that it can create a residential subdivision of eleven lots, which is a substantial decrease in density from the possible density allowed under current zoning. The rezoning would also result in a new 3.344-acre ML zoned area where Hilo Coast Processing formerly had a warehouse and baseyard. 5. 'fhe property is near Pepeekeo Point. It once contained structures associated with the Pepeekeo Sugar Mill and the Pepeekeo Mill Camp. These structures were torn down, mainly during the 1970's. 6. The Planning Commission's and the director's favorable recommendation for the state land use boundary amendment application is based on the following: u The approval of the reclassification from the state land use agricultural district to the rural district will not violate HRS § 205-2 nor will it be inconsistent with the land use commission's rules or the Hawaii County general plan.