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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: June 2Q, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 906Bi11 No. 290 PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort TIME: 10:30 a.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Communication No. 906 and Bill No. 290, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim, dated May 8, 2006, regarding a Change of Zone request by Scott T. Nakahara, at Ouli, South Kohala, Hawaii, TMK: 6-2-9:17 reports as follows: Bill No. 290 seeks to amend Section 25-8-7 (North and South Kohala Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the District Classification of approximately 5.9 acres of land from Agicultwal 5-acres (A-Sa) to Residential and AgriculturAL 2-acres (RA-2a). Communication No. 906 reports the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by the Hawaii County Charter, Chapter 4, Section 6-4.3(C), considered the above request and accompanying Bill No. 289 on April 21, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this mattes Communication No. 906, in synopsis, reports the Planning Director's findings and recommendations as the following: 1. The applicants aze the owners of the property. The applicants aze requesting a Change of Zone for 5.9 acres from the Agicultural District to the Residential and Agricultural District. 2. The subject property is located in Kanehoa Estate Subdivision along the south side of Kawaihae Road with access from Kanehoa Street intersection in Ouli, South Kohala. 3. The applicants aze also requesting a concurrent State Land Use Boundary Amendment (Bill No. 289) from the Agicultural District to the Rural District. 4. The applicants are requesting the State Land Use Boundary Amendment and the Change of Zone so that they may subdivide the property into two residential/agricultural lots. There aze two existing single-family residences currently on the property, one on each of the two proposed lots. According to their change of zone application, the owners state that these two residences will be retained in their ownership if their land use requests are approved. 5. The subject property was part of the original 27-lot Kanehoa Estates Subdivision that was created in 1985. 6. Access to lots is proposed from Kanehoa Place, a private roadway with a 50-foot right-of--way. 7. The approval of the Change of Zone request from the Agricultural District 5-acre (A-Sa) to a Residential and Agricultural 2-acre (RA-2a) zoned district would result in an appropriate land use pattern that will further benefit the public based on the following: • A State Land Use Boundary Amendment (Bill 289) is being concurrently processed with this request. PC REPORT NO. 91