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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 4 The project site is situated within close proximity to commercial areas, employment centers and public safety services. The project site is located less than one mile from the urban retail and employment area ofKea'au Town Center. Police, fire and emergency medical services are located in Kea'au, approximately one mile from the property. Kea'au is centrally located at the junction of two major highways in the Puna District, Highway 11 and the Kea'au-Pahoa Highway. All utilities and services are or will be made available to the project site. All essential utilities are available to the site. Access to the project site will be from the Kea'au-Pahoa Bypass onto a frontage road, formerly known as the Old Volcano Highway. The Old Volcano Highway connects to Slaughterhouse Road (a private road), approximately one mile from the Bypass. Both the Highway and the Road have a pavement width of20 feet w'ithin a 50-foot wide right-of-way. The Slaughterhouse Road tapers near the entrance to the project site to a pavement width of20 feet. According to the applicant, water can be made available from a 6-inch waterline fronting the site. There is no municipal wastewater system in the area. According to the applicant, an enhanced septic system meeting with the requirements of the Department of Health will be required. This will be done by the applicant in conjunction with the issuance of a building permit for the proposed brewery. The request is not contrary to Chapter 20SA, Hawai'i Revised Statues, relating to Coastal Zone Management. The project site is not proximate to the shoreline and not located in the SMA. There is no record of a designated public access to the shoreline or mountain areas that traverses the site. According to the applicant, no valued cultural, historical or natural resources exist on the properties and there is no evidence of any traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights being practiced on the site. Thus, it is not anticipated that the proposed request will have any adverse impact on cultural or historical resources in the area. Therefore, no action is necessary to protect these rights. The property has no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be rectified or which would render the land unusable. The project site is located within Zone "X", area determined to be outside the 500-year floodplain. All development generated storm run-off shall be disposed of on-site and not allowed onto adjacent properties or roadways.