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Valerie T. Poindexter, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 6 coastline and will not be impacted by coastal hazard and beach erosion. As stated above, the applicant has submitted a concurrent request for a Special Management Area (SMA) Use Permit to allow for the proposed development. There are no identified recreational resources, public access to the shoreline or mountain areas, scenic and open space preserves, coastal ecosystems, marine resources or other natural and environmental resources in immediate the area. Thus, the proposed request and use of the property will not adversely impact those resources. It is not anticipated that endangered or threatened candidate species of flora or fauna are located within the subject property because the property was previously bulldozed, cleared and was developed and previously used as a school site. Presently, there is no evidence of any traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights being practiced on the site. Haun and Associates prepared an Archeological Assessment in association with this application. The assessment was prepared for the 0.047 -acre, undeveloped portion of the property located on the southeast side of a chain-link fence surrounding the majority of the property. The report referenced a 1989 archeological study by William Barrera, Jr. of Chinango, Inc. which was prepared for the Use Permit No. 72 to allow for a school. Barrera conducted a reconnaissance survey of the project area which at that time was classified as a portion of TMK: 6-8-001:052, which identified one site in the area, described as a "crude shelter wall and several excavations into the pahoehoe (often referred to as aboriginal scoria quarries)." These features were not mapped or described and the site was not assigned a State Inventory of Historic Places (SIHP) site number. Barrera recommended that the site be preserved and protected by a 15 -ft buffer and that a chain-link fence be built where the buffer zone bounded the school site. Implementation of this buffer and fence satisfied the Use Permit condition for historic site mitigation and memorialized in an undated letter from SHPD to Duane Kanuha, Director of the County of Hawaii Planning. According to this letter, "We believe that [t]his site will be adequately preserved and that the project will have `no effect' on historic sites." The area was subsequently subdivided with the school lot designated as TMK: 6-8-001:058. The fenced area to the property line constitutes the .047 -acre, undeveloped portion of the property that was the subject of Haun and Associates 2016 study. A copy of this Archeological Assessment was submitted to State Historic Preservation Commission (SHPD) for consultation on November 12, 2016 and as of this writing, the Planning Department has not received any response from SHPD. A condition of approval will require that the applicant maintain the previously agreed upon 15 foot -buffer, which encroaches on an .047 -acre portion of the subject property up to the existing chain link fence. Based on the preceding, it is not anticipated that the proposed request will have any adverse impact on cultural or historical resources in the area.