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The Honorable Dominic Yagong, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 3 and Homestead Road. Surrounding properties are zoned A -la to the north and east, and CV -10 to the south and east across Mamalahoa Highway. The Honpa Hongwanji Mission, Holualoa Library and Holualoa Post Office are located south of the parcel, on TMK Nos. 7-6-4: 5, 7 and 9, respectively. The project site is designated Zone "X", areas determined to be outside the 500 - year flood plain. The property is unclassified by the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) System. Soils within the property and surrounding area are designated "C" or "Fair" by the Land Study Bureau. The access to the site is from the Mamalahoa Highway, a two-lane County roadway with a pavement width of approximately 20 feet, and Old Government Road, a two-lane County roadway with a pavement width of approximately 8 feet (in poor to good condition) with gravel/grass shoulders, within a 25 -foot right-of-way. The property frontage along the Mamalahoa Highway and the Old Government Road is not improved. In a memo dated December 7, 2011, the Department of Public Works (DPW) recommends improvements to the Government Road/Mamalahoa Highway intersection to allow for two-way traffic along the property frontage of old Government Road consisting of, but not limited to, pavement widening and transition, drainage improvements, and any relocation of utilities. According to the DPW, a portion of the subject property fronting Old Government Road serves as perpendicular parking for businesses on TMK: 7-6-4: 13. The DPW recommends that conditions be imposed to require the applicant to maintain the parking use on the property as the Holualoa commercial area has limited capacity for parking. In addition, the DPW recommends that the applicant improve and dedicate an additional 8 feet of right-of-way width to the entire subject property's Old Government Road frontage to accommodate on -street parking, meeting with the approval of the DPW, at no cost to the County. Conditions of approval will generally reflect the DPW's recommendations. However, some flexibility in the ultimate extent of improvements to the Old Government Road will be afforded to the Department of Public Works due to this limited volume of traffic along this section of the Old Government Road, the existence of historic rock wall features within the existing right-of-way, existing utilities that could complicate any widening, and other possible issues that may complicate or prevent the widening of this roadway to the preferred 16 -foot wide width. Currently, in addition to the Mamalahoa Highway and Old Government Road, the property has access from a 12 -foot wide asphalt and gravel private roadway; however, the private roadway will not be used for access should the request be approved. This road