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Valerie Poindexter, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 3 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. Access is from Mohouli Street onto Kupuna Place(an approximately thirty-foot paved area within a fifty-foot wide roadway parcel owned by the State but managed by the County under the EO No. 4224) then onto a paved portion within an approximately 70-foot wide road and utility easement leading to the subject property. There is an existing 10-feet wide no vehicular access easement on the subject property fronting both Mohouli Street and Komohana Street. There is an emergency access gate between the Mohouli Heights Senior Neighborhood project and the end of Kahikini Street in the adjacent Sunrise Ridge Subdivision, which will remain closed unless an emergency access is required. County water can be made available to the site with improvements. The applicant shall comply with the requirements of the Department of Water Supply. The Department of Environmental Management Wastewater Division(DEM) commented that the applicant shall conduct a sewer study in accordance with the then applicable wastewater system design standards prior to approval to connect to the County sewer system. The applicant shall provide such sewer line or other facility improvements as the Director of DEM may reasonably require,which the sewer study may indicate are advisable for mitigation of impacts of the proposed project. The City and County of Honolulu revised Volume 1, Wastewater Collection Systems in July 2017. Existing sewer studies shall be updated to reflect requirements under the new Design Standards. Police, fire protection and emergency medical services are located in Hilo, less than two miles from the property. Electricity, cable and telephone are available to the site. Urban Districts shall include lands characterized by"city-like" concentrations of people, structures, streets, urban level of services and other related land uses. The project site is located in an urban-like setting adequately served by transportation and utilities. Commercial establishments and other amenities are available within close proximity. The reclassification will allow the property to be used for the development of a total of 92- affordable senior housing units as Phase 3 of the Mohouli Heights Senior Neighborhood project. The reclassification action would conform to the following goals, objectives and/or policies of the housing element articulated in the Hawaii State Plan. The request would be consistent with the following goals, objectives and/or policies articulated in the Hawai`i State Plan as it will provide greater opportunities for Hawai`i's elderly to rent an affordable unit in an area in which housing has become scarce and costly.