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Honorable Angel Pilago, Chair And Members of the Committee on Planning COMMITTEE ON PLANNING Page 2 January 7, 2008 under construction with legal access to Puainako St., however, the Planning Department recommended that access to the newly-created lot be limited to Kanoelani St. rather than completely following DOT's recommendation that access to both lots be from Puainako St. The Council Planning Committee, however, in 2001 passed a Draft 2 of Bill 89, which amended Condition "C" so that the lots would take access via a joint driveway to Puainako St. The committee report, Comm. No. 299. 1, stated that this was "to comply with the recommendations of Public Works and State DOT", which seems an incorrect statement with respect to State DOT. The Planning Department recommends that Condition C of Bill 89 be re-amended to the original wording: "Access for the proposed vacant lot shall be limited to Kanoelani St. and meet with the approval of the Department of Public Works. All driveway connections to county roads shall conform to Chapter 22, Streets and Sidewalks of the Hawaii County Code." We also recommend that the Council include a condition limiting the lots to one dwelling per lot. This has been a fairly common requirement in rezonings. In other words, the owners would not be able to put an `ohana dwelling on the lots in addition to the first dwelling. If `ohana dwellings were allowed, this rezoning could potentially allow four homes on this property (although the location of the first home would make it difficult to build more than three homes because of setbacks.) When the application was received and reviewed, it appeared that the intent was to create a second lot where one additional dwelling would be allowed. Under "traffic impact", the applicant wrote that "the traffic impact will be nominal since one of the proposed structures fronting onto Puainako will be a replacement of an existing structure and the second structure will front onto Kanoelani which has low or no traffic to begin with." The current proposed conditions do not require any road improvements by the owners because the additional development allowed by the rezoning would be slight. We would have to re-evaluate this if the rezoning potentially allowed additional homes, particularly because there are other lots on Kanoelani which are of a similar size and could potentially be subdivided if they were also allowed RS-10 zoning.