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Communication 763 Bill 247 Page 2 of 5 5. Water can be made available from an existing 8-inch waterline on Kaloko Drive. The Department of Water Supply considers the Kaloko Mauka Water System a separate system from other systems in Kona and consists of transmission and distribution lines, pump stations and seven reservoirs that extend to the 5,106-fr elevation. The reservoir has a capacity of 500,000 gallons. All other essential utilities and services are or will be made available to the site. 6. Vegetative cover is a mixture of native and non-native species and the proposed development has the potential to alter the mixture of plant life. However, low density of the proposed development and conditions applied to previous rezonings will assure continuation of habitat for existing Wildlife consists of turkeys, hawks, Chinese pheasants and other forest birds. 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 Kona Watershed, which provides for the recharge of aquifers that supply most of Kona's drinking water, includes those lands located within Kaloko Mauka Subdivision above the 1,900-foot elevation and includes the subject property. 8. Although the property is located within the water recharge area, a condition of approval will be included to retain 67% of the forest cover on the site to preserve the watershed qualities and watershed area. Applicant is proposes to address potential adverse visual impacts clearing of the property for individual home sites and agricultural uses may have on the existing upland forest character, as follows: • a 60-foot wide "forest reserve easement" for buffer purposes along the existing roadway; • a 30-foot "forest reserve easement" along all lot lines not covered by the 60-foot easement; • a 60-foot wide structural setback along the existing roadways in lieu of the required 30-foot setback along the property's public street frontage to provide an additional buffer; • at least 67% of the lot area to be retained in forest. 9. Conditions will be included to preserve the forest corridor along the roads of the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision as well as a recommendation for conditions to restrict the construction of a second dwelling and prepazation of a conservation plan for each subdivided lot, and a "fair share" contribution to mitigate any potential impacts. 10. The Planning Director recommended favorably on this request based on the following: • The Change of Zone request from Agricultura120-acre (A-20a) to the Family Agricultural 3-acre (FA-3a) 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 of the General Plan designates the area as Important Agricultural Land (IAL), those lands with better potential for sustained high agricultural yields because of soil type, climate, topography, or other factors. 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 Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification system identifies soils on the property as "D" or "Poor" and "E" or "Very Poor" for agricultural activity. The Agricultural Lands in the PC REPORT NO.71