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Dru Kanuha, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 3 The applicant will provide basic infrastructure needed to support commercial uses such as County potable water, connection to the County sewer system, a future road widening strip, reconstruction of the existing damaged sidewalk to full-width concrete sidewalk along Kilauea Avenue, and electrical service. Thus, the applicant's request is consistent with surrounding land uses and zoning and the goals, policies and standards of the General Plan. All essential utilities and services are available to the site. Access to the property is from Kilauea Avenue, which is a two-lane paved County roadway with a northbound center left-turn lane fronting the subject property and sidewalks, all within a 60-foot wide right-of-way. The General Plan identifies Kilauea Avenue as a secondary arterial street which requires a minimum right-of-way width of 80 feet, thus a 10-foot wide future road widening strip along the property frontage would be required to meet the General Plan standard. The Planning Director recommends the applicant subdivide and provide this future road widening strip at no cost to the County when required by the Department of Public Works (DPW). Additionally, the DPW recommends that the applicant reconstruct the damaged sidewalk fronting the subject property to a full-width concrete sidewalk and curb prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy for any commercial uses on the property and install any streetlights or traffic control devised that may be required by the Traffic Division. According to the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation Manual, a 1,800 square foot hair salon would generate about 4 trips during the a.m. and p.m. peak hour periods. To be consistent with the concurrency requirements of the Zoning Code, a condition of approval will require submittal of a Traffic Impact Analysis Report (TIAR) should a different land use be developed that would generate over 50 peak hour trips. The applicants will be responsible for constructing any improvements identified in the TIAR required by the Department of Public Works. The project site has no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be properly rectified or which would render the land unusable. The property is located in flood zone "X" which is an area determined by FEMA to be outside the 500-year flood plain.