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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: July 6, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 933Bi11 No. 297 PLACE: Council Chambers TIME: 2:00 p.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was refereed Communication No. 933 and Bill No. 297, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim, dated May 30, 2006, regazding a Change of Zone request by the Plant-Mason Family Trust, at Wainaku, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: 2-6-032:006 reports as follows: Bill No. 297 seeks to amend Section 25-8-34 (Papaikou-Onomea Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), by changing the District Classification of approximately 14.771 acres of land from the Single Family Residential 15,000 Square Feet (RS-15) and the Agricultural - 20-acre (A-20a) to the Residential and Agricultural 1-acre (RA-la) zoned district. Communication No. 933 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. 297 on May 5, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this matter. Communication No. 933, in synopsis, reports the Planning Director's findings and recommendations as the following: 1. The applicants aze the owners of the property. The applicants are requesting a Change of Zone for approximately 14.771 acres of land from the Single Family Residential District and from the Agricultural District to the Residential and Agricultural District. 2. The subject property is located adjacent to and west of Ha`aheo Elementary School, in Wainaku, South Hilo, Hawaii. The subject property fronts the south side of Kulana Kea Road and the east side of Kauhi`ula Road. 3. The applicants are also requesting a concurrent State Land Use Boundary Amendment (Bill No. 296) from the Urban District and from the Agricultural District to the Rural District. 4. The applicants are requesting the Change of Zone and the State Land Use Boundary Amendment so that they may subdivide the property into ten residential/agricultural lots. Eight of the lots will be approximately 1 acre m 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 lots and to retain two additional lots for family members. The remaining seven lots would either be retained or sold to finance 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 property for employees of their parent company, C. Brewer. This subdivision was, however, never developed. The subject property was sold to the applicants in December, 2001. PC REPORT NO. 96