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not available in the area, the applicant will install a wastewater system meeting with the ' requirements of the Department of Health. The property is located less than one mile from the village retail and employment center of Kea`au. Schools and medical, police and fire services are also located within Kea`au. Urban Districts shall include lands characterized by "city-like" concentrations of people, structures, streets, urban level of services and other related land uses. Several commercial and industrial uses have been established over the years on surrounding properties and the adjacent properties through Special Permits. Recently, four properties immediately adjacent to the subject property have received a Special Permit to establish a brewery, distillery, and water bottling facilities. Between 2004 and 2016 four State Land Use Boundary Amendments from Agricultural to Urban, and concurrent requests for Industrial zoning have been approved on lands north of the Milo Street extension and east of the Kea`au-Pahoa Bypass. As industrial and industrial- commercial uses already exist in the immediate area, the urbanization of the project site will not contribute towards scattered urban development. There are no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be properly rectified or which would render the land unusable. The Federal Emergency Management Agency designates the subject property as Zone "X", areas outside of the 500-year flood plain and it is not known to be prone to flooding. The property is relatively flat and is not located in the tsunami inundation area. All project generated runoff will be disposed of on-site, so as not to impact surrounding properties. Thus, the reclassification meets the standard which states that the lands included within the urban district, "...shall be those with satisfactory topography and drainage and reasonably free from the danger of floods, tsunami and unstable soil conditions and other adverse environmental effects." While the subject property is located within the State Land Use Agricultural and County's Agricultural (A-20a) zoned district, it is not currently being used for active agricultural purposes. The State of Hawai`i Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawai`i (ALISH) Map classifies the subject property as Unclassified. The Land Use Study Bureau's Overall Master Productivity Rating for the western portion of the -3-