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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: May 1, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 723/Bill No. 237 PLACE: Council Chambers TIME: 10:00 a.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 237, reports as follows: Bill No. 237, transmitted via Communication No. 723 from Mayor Harry Kim, dated February 17, 2006, presents a Change of Zone request by Christopher Raymond, at Waikoekoe, Hamakua, Hawaii, TMK: 4-7-7:48. Bill No. 237 seeks to amend Section 25-8-15 (Hamakua District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the District Classification of approximately 34.559 acres of land from Agricultural - 20 acres (A-20a) to Family Agricultural 3-acre (FA-3a). Communication No. 723 reports the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by the Hawaii County Charter, Chapter 4, Section 6-4.3(C), considered this rezoning request and accompanying Bill No. 237 on February 3, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this matter. Communication No. 723 transmits the following findings and recommendations: The applicant, Christopher Raymond, is the landowner. The subject property has been in Mr. Raymond's family since the Mahele in the 1860s. The applicant is requesting a Change of Zone for this 34.5-acre parcel from the Agricultural - 20 acres (A-20a) district to the Family Agricultural 3-acre (FA-3a) district in order to subdivide the property into eleven smaller lots, averaging three acres in size. According to the applicant, eight of the lots will be retained for Raymond family members, and three lots will be sold to cover costs to rezone and subdivide the property. The property is located on the south side of the Old Mamalahoa Highway, approximately 2,750 feet east of the Old Mamalahoa Highway-Hawaii Belt Road intersection. The parcel is located just east of the Kamuela Lakeland Subdivision, in Hamakua. Access to the north side of the property is from the Old Mamalahoa Highway, a County road with a 20-foot pavement width within a 60-foot right of way. Access to the lots on the southwest side of the property is proposed from Vierra Road, a County roadway which is partially paved along its frontage with the subject property. Condition G of Bill No. 237 requires the applicant to provide a 5-foot wide future road widening setback along the property's Vierra Road frontage. PC REPORT NO. 70