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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: July 6, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 933/Bill No. 296 PLACE: Council Chambers TIME: 2:00 p.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Yow Committee on Planning, to which was referred Communication No. 933 and Bill No. 296, transmitted by Mayor Hany Kim, dated May 30, 2006, regarding a State Land Use Boundary Amendment application by the Plant-Mason Family Trust, at Wainaku, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-6-032:006 reports as follows: Bill No. 296 seeks to amend the State Land Use District Boundaries Map for the County of Hawaii, by changing the District Classification for approximately 11.9 acres of land from the Urban District to the Rwal District and for approximately 2.8 acres of land from the Agricultwal District to the Rwal District. Communication No. 933 reports the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by Chapter 4, Section 6-4.3(C), Hawaii County Charter, considered the above request and accompanying Bill No. 296 on May 5, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this matter. Communication No. 933 reports the Planning Director's fmdings and recommendations as the following: 1. The property was pwchased in December 2001 by the Plant-Mason Family Trust. The applicants are requesting a State Land Use Boundary Amendment for approximately 14.7 acres from the Agricultwal and Urban District to the Rwal District. 2. The subject properly fronts the south side of Kulana Kea Road and the east side of Kauhi`ula Road. Access to the site is from Kulana Kea Road, a private roadway with a 20-foot pavement width within a 60-foot wide right-of--way. Properties to the south and east consist ofsingle-family residential lots in the vicinity of Ha`aheo School. Properties to the north and west of the site are zoned Agricultwal - 20 acres (A-20a). 3. The applicants aze also requesting a concwrent Change of Zone (Bill 297) from the Single Family Residential 15,000 Squaze Feet (RS-15) and the Agricultwal - 20-acre (A-20a) to the Residential and Agricultwal 1-acre (RA-la) zoned 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 ten residentiaUagricultwal lots. Eight of the lots will be approximately 1 acre in size and the remaining two lots will be 3.2 and 2.7 acres. The applicants plan to construct a residence on one of the Tots and to retain two additional lots for family members. The remaining seven lots would either be retained or sold to fmance costs of developing the proposed subdivision. 5. The subject property was originally owned by Mauna Kea Agribusiness, which intended to develop a 25-lot subdivision on the properly for employees of their pazent company, C. Brewer. This subdivision was, however, never developed. The subject properly was sold to the applicants in 2001. PC REPORT NO. 95