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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 3 The Urban classification conforms to the standard that the development is within reasonable proximity to centers of trading and employment and to basic services such as schools, police and fire protection, transportation systems and water. The properties are located less than one mile from the village retail and employment center of Kea`au. Schools and medical, police and fire services are also located within Kea`au. According to the Department of Water Supply, water is available to the site from an 8 -inch waterline within Milo Street. Access to the subject properties is from the Milo Street extension, which is a private roadway owned by W. H. Shipman. According to a 1938 deed the applicant has legal right of access over this roadway, which has a minimum pavement width of 24 feet within a 40 -foot wide road lot. The applicant will provide improvements to the properties' frontage along the end of the Milo Street extension. The applicant will install aerobic individual wastewater treatment system(s) meeting with the approval of the Department of Health to maintain the quality of water from the County -owned potable water wells in the area. Urban Districts shall include lands characterized by "city -like" concentrations of people, structures, streets, urban level of services and other related land uses. Several commercial and industrial uses have been established over the years on surrounding properties and the subject properties through special permits. Recently large areas of land north of the Milo Street extension and east of the Kea`au-Pahoa Bypass have been reclassified from the Agricultural to Urban state land use district, and have been rezoned from agricultural to industrial or mixed commercial -industrial. As industrial and industrial -commercial uses already exist in the immediate area, the urbanization of the project site will not contribute towards scattered urban development. There are no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be properly rectified or which would render the land unusable. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency designates the properties as Zone "X", areas outside of the 500 -year flood plain. The properties are located over three miles from the shoreline, at an elevation of about 300 feet above sea level and are fairly level with less than a 5% slope. All project generated runoff will be disposed of on-site, so as not to impact surrounding properties. Thus, the reclassification meets with the standard which states that the lands included within the urban district "....shall be those with satisfactory topography and drainage and reasonably free from the danger of floods, tsunami and unstable soil conditions and other adverse environmental effects."