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,k:-•--+ REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: Mazch 17, 1998 Re: C-753Bi11 No. 208 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:38 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 208, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 753, dated Mazch 4, 1998, regazding the change of zone request by Kenneth C. Kjer at Waiaha 1st, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-5-17:20, reports as follows: Bill No. 208 amends Section 25-8-3 (North Kona Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) by changing the district classification for approximately 12,432 square feet of land from an Agricultural to a Village Commercial zoned district. The subject property was previously owned by Harry H. Hasegawa and Daisy T. Hasegawa, husband and wife, who sold the pazcel to Kenneth C. Kjer (Tenant in Severalty with an undivided 50% interest) and Frederick L. Barret, Jr. and Margarita V. Barrett, husband and wife, (Tenants by the Entirety with an undivided 50% interest) by a warranty deed which was recorded at the Bureau of Conveyances on July 25, 1997. Mr. and Mrs. Hasegawa had originally submitted the change of zone application (REZ 94-16), which the new owners aze continuing to process, hence the background information attached to the rezoning application forms is in the Hasegawa name. The subject property, owned in fee by the applicants, was leased to the County Board of Water Supply from 1928 to 1988 as a water tank site. On October 14, 1994, a Mutual Rescission and Release Agreement between the applicants and the Boazd of Water Supply was recorded at the Bureau of Conveyances. The applicants aze seeking this State Land Use boundary amendment and change of zone to develop athree-level structure on the subject parcel. The building, consisting of approximately 3,100 squaze feet on each floor, will have a median height of 30 feet. The applicants will use one of the proposed offices for their real estate business, and the other offices will be sold as condominium units to various commercial ventures. Other proposed improvements include 24 paved pazking spaces (15 pazking spaces will be located beneath the structure on ground level, and the other 9 stalls will be located along the Hualalai Road frontage of the property) for use by the owners and their clients, paved loading azeas, and a paved driveway access to Hualalai Road. The State Department of Transportation will not permit access to the property from the Queen Kaahumanu Highway. Access will be from Hualalai Road, a County roadway with a 20-foot PC Report 103