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Dru Kanuha, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 6 Electricity and telephone services are available to the site. Police and fire services are available a mile from the site, in Kea'au. Medical services are available at Hilo Medical Center. Access to the project site is from Milo Street, a private road maintaining a pavement width of 22 feet. This area of Milo Street has a right-of-way width of 40 feet. The Department of Public Works recommends improvements to the property's Milo Street frontage consisting of, but not limited to, pavement widening with concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk, drainage improvements and any required utility relocation meeting the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The improvements will be required to be located within a future road widening setback of 10 feet recommended by the Planning Department in order to accommodate its eventual widening of the right of way to 60 feet, the minimum standard for commercial and industrial roadways. There have been several rezonings and Special Permits approved along Milo Street over the past 20 years and each rezoning or permit included some type of road improvements to Milo Street, even though a majority of Milo Street is privately owned. A majority of the roadway improvement conditions were added to accommodate the requirements subject to minimum industrial roadway standards in the Subdivision Code as well as standard road construction details to meet County dedicable standards, which includes the construction of the road, shoulder, and curb, gutter and sidewalk or paved swale improvements within a 60-foot right-of-way width. This portion of Milo Street has a right-of-way width of 40-feet, which will require the landowners/applicants on each side of the private roadway to set aside a portion of their property equal to one-half(1/2) the distance between the existing right-of-way and sixty(60) feet, which in this case equals 10 feet along each side of the private portions of Milo Street. This road-widening setback will be dedicated to the County upon it's request. Additionally, the required road way improvements within the road widening setback shall be improved to full dedicable standards at no cost the County prior to receipt of Final Plan Approval or within five years from the effective date of this change of zone ordinance, whichever occurs first. In reviewing the previous rezoning and Special Permit road improvement conditions approved along Milo Street, a majority of applicants have yet to construct these road improvements or have not been requested by the County to do so. Most of Milo Street is currently owned by W. H. Shipman, Ltd. At this time, there are no plans for the County to request that Milo Street be improved and dedicated to the County as this is a private road. As such, it is difficult to orchestrate these roadway improvements along