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Valerie T. Poindexter, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 2 property, and request for relief from fair share contribution provisions for an assisted living facility. The property is located on the southeast side of the intersection of Kanoelehua Avenue (State Highway 11) and East Kahaopea Street, Waiakea Homestead House Lots, South Hilo, Hawai`i, TMK: 2-2-044:031, 032, 035 and 037. The applicant is currently in contract to purchase the property from the landowner, Graphic Images Hawai`i, Inc. In August 2016 the applicant submitted a Use Permit application to develop a 120-bed assisted living facility in an approximately 81,404 square foot, three- story building. The assisted living facility would be developed in two phases with 88 beds developed in the first phase and 32 beds in the second phase, which would occur about 3- 5 years after the first phase is completed. The applicant also plans to develop about 6,800 square feet of leasable office uses and about 6,800 square feet of leasable retail space on the portion of the property not being occupied by the assisted living facility. Access to the property will be from a driveway from Kahaopea Street, directly across from `Awapuhi Street. The property will be filled to level the buildable areas, due to the topography and intermittent flow of water that runs across the makai portion of the property. Granting of the amendments would not be contrary to the original reasons for granting the rezone or to the General Plan or the Zoning Code. The original reasons for the approval of the change of zone are still applicable and the request is not contrary to these reasons. The zoning was originally approved in 1996 to provide additional land for commercial land uses in Hilo in close proximity to existing services. The applicant currently plans to construct a 120-bed assisted living facility which is a permitted use in the Neighborhood Commercial (CN) zoning district with a Use Permit. The Housing Element of the General Plan encourages the construction of specially designed facilities or communities for elderly persons needing institutional care and small home care units for active elderly persons. Currently there is one assisted living facility on the island, in Kailua Kona. The proposed assisted living facility will fulfill this need in the community and therefore is consistent with the General Plan. The applicant is simply seeking additional time to complete the consolidation and re-subdivision for the subsequent development and to change the timing of constructing drainage improvements to be done at the same time the assisted living facility is constructed rather than prior. The Planning Department is supportive of the request for a time extension to complete consolidation and re-subdivision of the property, since they have been consistently working on drainage and traffic improvement plans for the proposed development.