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STATE LAND USE DISTRICT BOUNDARY AMENDMENT APPLICATION (fifteen acres or less) BACKGROUND REPORT APPLICANT: Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation (HICDC) REQUEST: State Land Use Boundary Amendment Agriculture to Urban TAX MAP KEY: (3) 2-4-001: 177,185 and 186 A) SUBJECT REQUEST 1) Details of the Proposed Development: a) Project description: The subject parcels are located on the northeast corner of Mohouli Street and Kupuna Place at an elevation of approximately 300 feet above sea level. The boundary amendment request includes a 6.376 -acre parcel identified as tax map key number (3) 2-4-001:177, a 1.585 acre parcel identified as tax map key number (3) 2-4-001: 185 and a 1.418 acre parcel identified as tax map key number (3) 2-4-001: 186 situated in Waiakea, South Hilo, Island of Hawaii. HICDC is requesting a State Land Use Boundary amendment from Agriculture to Urban for the subject parcels (project area) which have a total combined land area of 9.379 acres. All three parcels have been previously developed. The applicant completed the Mohouli Heights Senior Neighborhood Project Phase 1, a 60 -unit multi -family rental project for low-income seniors in 2014 on parcel 177. A 30 -unit Phase 2 project was completed in October, 2017 on parcel 185. The Hilo Adult Day Center is currently under construction and is scheduled for completion shortly in the Spring of 2018. A similar boundary amendment application was submitted in 2017 for Phase 3 of the Project which will include development of 92 additional low income senior affordable housing units and related uses and was approved on March 6, 2018. (Please see attached Figure 1 showing the three phases of the Project) b) Statement of objectives and reasons for the request: In 2010, the applicant went through an exemption process with the County of Hawaii (County) to change the State Land Use designation of 15 acres of land (which included all three of the subject parcels) from Agriculture to Urban as well as a change of zone from Agricultural one acre (A -la) to Multi -Family Residential Four Thousand (RM -4). The exemption process, authorized by Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), Section 201H-38, in conjunction with HRS 46-15.1, is intended to expedite the approval of affordable housing projects, and has been utilized to obtain State Land Use boundary amendment and Change of Zone approvals. County Resolution No. 328 10 approved the requested changes on April 26, 2010. After the development of Phase 1 of the Project, a second exemption resolution, Resolution Number 311 15 changed the zoning designation of the remaining 9.572 acres to Multiple Family Residential one thousand five hundred (RM 1.5) in 2015. The entire 9.379 acres included in the subject request have either been 1