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Aaron S.Y., Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 3 The reclassification action would be consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the Hawaii State Plan by providing urban type uses in close proximity to existing urban areas where adequate public facilities are already available and converting marginal or non-essential agricultural lands for appropriate urban uses while maintaining more productive agricultural lands in the agricultural district. 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. The current proposed access to the project site is from Wainaku Street, a County - owned and maintained road with which is an existing approximately 20 -24 -foot wide paved roadway within a 57 -foot right -of way. The applicant proposes to construct a new fifty (50) -foot wide road along the northern end of Parcel 26, intersecting to Wainaku Street as the main access way built to County dedicable standards and dedicated to the County. Conditions of approval of the concurrent Change of Zone will require the development of a Traffic Impact Analysis Report (TIAR) and additional improvements to the roadway facilities as may be required by the County Department of Public Works. According to the Department of Water Supply (DWS), water for the proposed project can be made available from an existing 10 -inch waterline along Wainaku Street fronting Parcel 26. Conditions of the accompanying Change of Zone Ordinance will require the applicant to construct and dedicate improvements to the County water system necessary to bring County water to all of the habitable lots in the proposed project. County sewer is available in the area and conditions of the accompanying Change of Zone Ordinance will require the applicant to conduct a sewer study, make sewer line improvements and connect as may be required by the County Department of Environmental Management and connect the entire project to a sewer system. All other essential utilities are available to the project site. Police services, fire services and schools are available approximately two (2) miles from the site, in Hilo. Urban Districts shall include lands characterized by "city -like" concentrations of people, structures, streets, urban level of services and other related land uses. This proposed reclassification action does not represent the creation of a new urban concentration, as the surrounding area is already an urban -like environment. There are many residential sized lots adjacent to and makai of the project site, Single - Family Residential (RS) and Multiple -Family (RM) zonings are situated makai and to the