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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: May 5, 1998 Re: C-79§Bill No. 219 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 2:05 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referted Bill No. 219, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 795, dated Apri18, 1998, regazding the change of zone request by James McCully at Keaau, Puna, Hawaii, TMK: 1-6-03: Portion of 5, reports as follows: Bill No. 219 amends Section 25-8-22 (Puna District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the district classification for approximately 14.234 acres of land from a Limited Industrial (ML-20) to anIndustrial-Commercial Mixed (MCX-20) zoned district. The subject property is located approximately one mile east of the Keaau Town Center at the end of Milo Street in the vicinity of the former Puna Sugaz Company Mill site, and is owned in fee by the applicant and his wife. The applicant is requesting that the existing ML-20 zoned portion of the subject property be rezoned to MCX-20 to allow for a greater mix of uses. The subject property is bound by private roads along the north and south boundazies. W. H. Shipman, Ltd. has, by deed, granted permission to use these private roads. Once the Keaau by- passroad is completed in late 1998 or 1999, it will serve as the principal access to the subject property. The County Council approved Ordinance No. 97-66, effective May 14, 1997, which redesignated a 14+-acre portion of the subject property that fronts the private section of Milo Street from State Land Use Agricultwal to Urban. The County Council also approved Ordinance No. 97-67 to rezone the subject property from A-20a to ML-20 and FA-3a, effective May 14, 1997. The applicant intended to develop a mixture of industrial and agricultural lots to service the needs of the community and region in the Puna District. The ML-20 zoning would allow for approximately 14-one-half to one-acre sized fee simple lots and the remaining 17+-acre portion that was rezoned to FA-3a would allow the creation of five 3-acre lots. The applicant's objective is to provide lots that would allow a vaziety of uses allowed in the MCX zoning category, including some commercial uses. In doing so, it would service both the limited commerical and light industrial needs of the immediate community, particulazly those living in the 8 %x Mile Camp, and the broader community as well. PC Report 108