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Valerie Poindexter, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 3 Puna Community Development Plan by providing future employment opportunities and improved living standards and stimulating the development and expansion of economic activities. The Urban classification conforms to the standard that the development is within reasonable proximity to centers of trading and employment and to basic services such as schools, police and fire protection, transportation systems and water. Currently, the roads and County water system in the area to not meet industrial zoning and urban standards. However, conditions of the Change of Zone approval will require that the applicant provide an industrial standard roadway within a 60-foot wide right-of-way, and make improvements to the existing County water system to provide adequate fire flow to meet the standards for industrial land uses. As municipal sewer is 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