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REPORT OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: January 28, 1997 Re: C-61 , PLACE: Kona Surf hotel, King Kamehameha Ballroom TIME: 10:15 a.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 16, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 61, dated December 27, 1996, regarding the change of zone request by Robert F. Greenwell Company, L.P. at Honokohau 1st and 2nd, North Kona, TMK: 7-4-5:2, reports as follows: Bill No. 16 amends Section 25-86 (North & South Kona Zone Map), Article 3, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the district classification for approximately 85.396 acres of land from an Agricultural (A-20a) to an Agricultural (A-l0a) zoned district. The subject property, between the elevation of 1700 feet and 2300 feet, is located one mile southeast of the Mamalahoa Highway/Palani Junction and 2,200 feet mauka of the Mamalahoa Highway where the applicant wants to subdivide the subject property into five lots of 10 to 36 acres for the purpose of transferring individual title to family members. Access to the subject property is by way of Mamalahoa Highway on a 60-foot wide private roadway and further over a 60-foot wide road and utility easement which will be used by the Department of Water Supply as an access to the Honokohau Production Well site. The Department of Water Supply is in the process of improving the access with a 12-foot wide paved road. In recent years, approximately half the subject property has been grubbed and planted in pasture. The balance of the property is overgrown with primarily non-native trees and underbrush. Soils within the subject property have been classified as "E" ur Very Poor for agricultural productivity by the Land Study Bureau's Detail Land Classification System and the Agricultural Lands oflmportance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) system classifies the soils within the subject property as "Other Important Agricultural Lands." County water is not available to the subject property because the property is outside the service area of the North Kona Water Systcm at an elevation above the existing County water system. Extensive improvements and additions, including storage, transmission, booster pump, and distribution facilities must be constructed. The applicant proposes to extend a privately operated system to serve the proposed development. PC REPORT NO.: 3 ~