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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council County of Hawai`i Page 3 (multiple family residential-up to 87 units per acre). In addition to being consistent with the LUPAG Map,the request would also support the following goals and policies of the General Plan Land Use element: • Provide for commercial developments that maximize convenience to its users. • Provide commercial developments that complement the overall pattern of transportation and land usage within the island's regions, communities, and neighborhoods. • Commercial facilities shall be developed in areas adequately served by necessary services, such as water, utilities, sewers, and transportation systems. • Commercial development shall maintain or improve the quality of the present environment through the consideration of visual, access, landscaping, and other design elements in their development. • Preference shall be given to commercial lands with a reasonably level topography. The subject property is located at the northeast corner of the Kino`ole Street/West Lanikaula intersection. The property is rectangular in shape with about 220 feet of frontage along West Lanikaula Street and 160 feet of frontage along Kino`ole Street. The topography is fairly level. According to tax records there are four(4)single-family dwellings on the site, three (3) of which were constructed in 1946, while the other, in 1928. These dwellings will be removed and/or relocated for possible housing use, if deemed appropriate and salvageable, by the contractor. • The property is surrounded by a mix of commercial and residential uses. There is an office building directly across of and kitty corner of the subject site on property zoned Neighborhood Commercial(CN-20). There is also a small commercial complex zoned General Commercial (CG-10) on the corner of Lanikaula and Kilauea Avenue, less than 200 feet east of the subject parcel. The University of Hawai`i at Hilo campus begins approximately 500 feet to the west at Ululani Street. There are also some scattered single-family residences north of the subject site along Kino`ole Street and an apartment complex fronting West Lanikaula Street, zoned Multiple-Family Residential(RM-4). Despite the transitioning nature of the neighborhood from residential to commercial zoning and the proposed zoning's consistency with the General Plan,there are still several residentially-zoned lots in close proximity to the subject property. The applicant received a