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The Honorable J Yoshimoto, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 4 The proposed request will not burden public agencies to provide utilities and services. Access to the property is from the Old Mamalahoa Highway, a County maintained road with a right-of-way of approximately 50 feet. There is a section of a County-owned paved access road connecting the Old Mamalahoa Highway with the Hawai`i Belt Road. County water is available to the proposed two lots. Solid waste will be disposed of in appropriate landfill locations. All essential utilities and services are available to the site, and police and fire services are located in Honoka`a and Laupahoehoe. There are no severe geological or topographical problems that cannot be properly rectified or which would render the land unusable. According to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA), the property is located in an area identified as Minimal Tsunami Inundation. The applicant will be required to direct all development generated storm run-off to be disposed on-site and not onto adjacent properties or roadways. The request is not contrary to Chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statues, relating to Coastal Zone Management. Although the property is located within the Special Management Area and fronts the coastline, it is elevated from the shoreline by cliffs of approximately 200 feet in height and has no direct ocean access. The proposed action will not have any significant impact on shoreline resources due to the property's location on top of a high bluff. However, as the property is located within the SMA, the applicant filed a SMA Assessment application for the construction of a single-family dwelling/demolition of an existing single-family dwelling upon the construction of the new dwelling. The request was approved by the Planning Department on March 28, 2011. There is no record of a designated public access to the shoreline or mountain areas that traverses the property. Although no studies were conducted of the site, it is not anticipated that endangered or threatened candidate species of flora or fauna are located within the site because the property has been improved with a dwelling and used for agricultural purposes for over 100 years. According to the applicant, there is no evidence of any traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights being practiced on the site,nor existence of known valued cultural, historical or native resources in the area. Thus, it is not anticipated that the proposed request will have any adverse impact on cultural or historical resources in the area.