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• , REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: April 1, 1997 Re: C-218 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 2:35 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Counci] Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 67, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 218, dated March 13, 1997, regarding the change of zone request by James McCully at Keaau, Puna, Hawaii, TMK: 1-6-03:5, reports as follows: Bill No. 67 amends Section 25-8-22 (Puna District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the district classification for approximately acres 17.042 of land from the Agricultural (A-20a) to Family Agricultural (FA-3a) zoned district and approximately ]4.234 acres of land from Agricultural (A-20a) to Limited Industrial (ML-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 Puna Sugar Company Mill site where the applicant intends to develop 14 industrial lots ranging from 20,000 square foot to ane-acre sized fee simple lots on the industrial zoned area of the subject property and to create approximately five 3-acre lots on the remaining 17± acre agricultural zoned area of the subject property. The applicant's overall objective is to develop a mixture of industrial and agricultural lots to service the needs of the community and the region in the Puna District. The applicant is concurrently requesting a State [,and Use Boundary Amendment for this 14+ acre portion of the subject property that fronts the private section of Milo Street. Access to the subject property is propused to be by the proposed Keaau By-Pass Road which would serve as the principal access via the extension of Milo Street. Legal access to the subject property is from the Old Volcano Road, a county maintained road which has a 50-foot right-of- way with a 20-foot wide pavement. Milo Street which intersects the Old Volcano Road, has an existing 18-foot wide pavement with 4-toot wide rolled asphaltic-concrete curb sidewalks along its southern side. Although Milo Street extend further to the east fronting the subject property, the County owned portion of Milo Street extends approximately 1,800 feet from the Old Volcano Road to a private road lot (TMK: L-6-2:98) owned by W.H. Shipman, Ltd. The applicant presently does not have easement rights over this roadway lot. This roadway lot identified as TMK: 1-6-2:98 will be eventually conveyed to the State as part of the Keaau bypass road project. PC REPORT NO.: 41