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< < ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW CHANGE OF ZONE REQUEST FOR TMK 7-3-53:49 HAMANAMANA, NORTH KONA, HAWAII by Ron Terry, Ph.D. Februazy 1997 Introduction This Environmental Review (ER) was developed as supporting material for a change of zone request submitted to the Hawaii County Planning Department at the request of Dennis Haserot. The rezoning applies to a 2.0-acre pazcel currently zoned A-Sa (Agriculture, minimum lot size 5 acres). The property takes access from Hamanamana Street in - Hamanamana Qust north of Kalaoa), approximately 1,600 feet makai of the Mamalahoa Highway (State Highway 190). The property is bordered by residences and vacant residential and agricultural lots. The landowner is Randy Wilson. The requested change of zone is from A-Sa to A-la. This would allow subdivision of the parcel into two lots. Methodology Methodology included field survey and examination of published records related to the. environmental conditions on the site. A field survey of the property was conducted on 14 January 1997. The primazy objective was to determine whether any rare or endangered species, or habitat for such species, were present on the parcels. A secondary objective was to characterize the general vegetation type or cover present. The final objective was to identify any other sensitive environmental conditions or potential impacts. Because the property was almost entirely graded with virtually no vegetation, the length of the property was walked only once, which allowed full visual surveillance of the entire property. Records, maps and publications examined included the zoning maps, pazcel maps and records, State Land Use District Maps, and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) maintained at the Hawaii County Planning and Public Works Departments. Published sources included the Atlas of Hawaii (2nd ed.), the Manual of Flowering Plants of Hawaii, the Rainfall Atlas of Hawaii, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographical map Kailua (1:24,000 scale), the U.S. Soil Conservation Service's Soil Survey of Island of Hawaii, the USGS publication Volcanic and Seismic Hazards on the Island of Hawaii, and the 1990 U.S. Census of Population. The References section at the end of this report supplies full references for all published material.