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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 4 All essential utilities and services are available to the property. Access to the property is from the Old Government Road (aka Hooper Road), which is not presently maintained by the County. From its intersection with Mamalahoa Highway to the subject property, the pavement width on Hooper Road is approximately 16 feet wide but narrows to 9 feet wide fronting the subject property and beyond. The pavement fronting the subject property is in poor condition. The right-of-way varies in width but appears on available maps to be less than 30 feet. Conditions of approval will be added requiring the applicant to provide for future road widening improvements, which includes a ten (10)-foot wide future road widening setback along the subject property's Hooper Road frontage and to conduct a location survey to show the location of existing features relative to the Hooper Road right-of-way boundary and the future road widening setback, including but not limited to pavements, walls, trees and utilities and remove any possible encroachments. As the revised request would, if approved as recommended, simply allow the subdivision of the property into 2 lots, each accommodating an existing single family dwelling with no proposal for further residences, the impact to the existing substandard roadway will remain status quo. Regarding water for this application, Section 25-2-46 (m) (Concurrency Requirements) within the Zoning Code states that a zoning amendment application shall not be granted unless: (1) the department of water supply has determined that it can meet the water requirements of the project and issue water commitments using its existing system; or(2) specific improvements to the existing public water system, or a private water system equivalent to the requirements of the department of water supply will be provided to meet the water needs of the project and conditions of zoning delay occupancy until the necessary improvements are actually constructed. As mentioned above, the Department of Water Supply has verified that the subject property is currently served with two 5/8-inch meters,but the system has substandard water pressure conditions and does not meet water system standards for subdivisions in accordance with the Hawai`i County Code and Rules and Regulations of the Department of Water Supply. For the applicant to upgrade the system to meet these standards, it will require extensive water system improvements, including, but not limited to, storage reservoirs,booster pumps, and distribution pipelines. In this particular case,the Planning Director will support a change of zone to FA-2a to allow for the property to be subdivided into two (2)parcels to separate the interests of the family members. The main reason for supporting this request is that both existing dwellings are currently serviced by DWS water meters and the approval of this change of zone will not increase the number of dwellings. It will only allow the property to be subdivided to separate the interests of the family members.