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Communication 691 Bi11228 Page 2 of 5 reservoirs that extend to the 5,000-ft elevation. The reservoirs have a capacity of 500,000 gallons. All other essential utilities and services are or will be made available to the site. 6. In 1982 the `Alala Recovery Plan, completed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with the `Alala Recovery Team, recommended that certain selected essential habitats be preserved and properly managed. To properly manage these habitats to provide for the continued existence of the `Alala, the plan recommends that lands of Kaloko above approximately the 3,200 feet to 3,400 feet elevation, be designated an essential habitat for the `Alala. The subject property is located in Block 7 at the 3,400-foot elevation. 7. The Office of State Planning's five-year State Land Use Boundary Review, Water Resources Research Center recommends that the high rainfall and fog-drip area mauka of the 2,000-foot elevation be redesignated into the Conservation District for protection as a watershed recharge area.. The subject property is located at the 3,400-foot elevation is within the watershed recharge area. 8. Resolution No. 58-97 adopted in 1997, established the Council's policy relating to rezonings within the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision. It established a maximum density of two dwellings per twenty acres for lands above the 3,000-foot elevation, with conditions that will protect the watershed, native forests and maintain low density patterns. The Resolution also recommended that the Planning Commission consider favorably, A-l0a zoning requests for only parcels in the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision located above the 3,000-foot elevation and included the conditions stated in Resolution 58-97, provided the request complies with other goals, policies, and standazds of the General Plan. 9. The Planning Director recommended favorably on this request based on the following: • The Change of Zone request from Agricultural 20-acre (A-20a) to the Agricultural 10-acre (A-l0a) district will conform to the goals, policies and standards of the General Plan Economic and Land Use elements. • The Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map designates the subject area as Important Agricultural Land and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) designates the property as Zone "X", an area determined to be outside of the 500-year flood plain. • The property is designated as Other Important Agricultural Land (DIAL) by the Agricultural Lands in the State of Hawaii (ALISH) System. OIALs are lands other than Prime or Unique Agricultural Land that is of statewide or local importance for production of food, feed, fiber and forage crops. • The Change of Zone request is not contrary to Chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to Coastal Zone Management as the subject property is located approximately eight miles mauka of the shoreline and will not be impacted by coastal hazard and beach erosion. • There have been several archaeological studies conducted in the azea. No formal archaeological reconnaissance survey, oral history of kamaaina accounts of the area, historical survey of documentary records or botanical study was included in the PC REPORT NO. 57