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RECOMMENDATION 0 COUNTY OF HAWAII PLANNING DEPARTMENT 0 0 RConceptREZ.doc - 12/3/09 CONCEPT CONSTRUCTION, INC. CHANGE OF ZONE APPLICATION (REZ 09 -108) Upon careful review of the request against the guidelines for granting a change of zone, the Planning Director is recommending that a favorable recommendation of the Change of Zone request be forwarded to the County Council. Since this recommendation is made without the benefit of public testimony, the Director reserves the right to modify and/or alter this recommendation based upon additional information presented at the public hearing. This favorable recommendation is based on the following findings: The applicant requests a change of zone from RS -10 to CN -20 to construct an approximately 12,000 square -foot facility to accommodate the relocation of the Liberty Dialysis Center from its present location on Rainbow Drive. Liberty Dialysis Center will lease the property and facility from the applicant. Proposed improvements include: • a single - story, approximately 12,000 square foot facility • a 42 -inch high rock wall along the north, west and south property boundaries • 40 parking stalls, including 4 ADA accessible stalls and 7 compact stalls • extensive landscaping • related improvements The dialysis center will offer hemodialysis treatments, home dialysis training, medical offices, and a kidney disease prevention clinic. The Liberty Dialysis Center is currently the only dialysis center in East Hawai`i. There is projected to be approximately 35 employees serving approximately 65 patients per day in three shifts. The applicant states that the property is a suitable location for the dialysis center as it is located on a major thoroughfare and all utilities are available to the site. In order to consider an area for any type of zoning designation, the applicable goals, policies and standards of the General Plan must be adequately addressed. It is only through such a comprehensive policy analysis approach that evaluations and decisions can be made to better time and stage developments to achieve growth determined by the General Plan and related planning documents. The implications of these evaluations and ATTACH: Calm. 703 Bill 208