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of Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway. The main entrance to the Niumalu Project is approximately 500 feet south of the Queen Ka'ahumanu Hwy. and Henry St. intersection. The second, lower entrance is at the southern(makai) end of the property off of Henry St. Each driveway entrance is approximately 700 feet apart. The approximately 19.5-acre size of the Property and the length of the roadway frontages along Queen Ka'ahumanu Hwy. (940 feet)and Henry St. (1,250 feet), allow for the proposed ground signs to be sufficiently spaced apart to minimize the impact of additional and larger identification/directory signs from adjacent properties, and their businesses and vehicles, and pedestrians traveling along both thoroughfares. 4) The strict application of the terms of the Hawaii County Sign Code would create an unnecessary hardship on the Applicant, as it would deprive the Applicant of the ability to effectively market the property due to the existing site constraints. The strict application of the Sign Code could also create traffic and public safety situations,as drivers may get distracted due to the limited visibility of smaller signs allowed by the Sign Code. Additional and larger signs will allow drivers to view signs from a greater distance to initiate lane change and turns in a safe manner. IV) Sign Variance Requests A) Sign Type GR-ID-lA and GR-ID-IB: Niumalu ID/Directory(See Sheets G-3 thru G-5) Sign Variance Request No.Al Hawaii County Code Requirements: Hawaii County Code Section 3-5 -Multi-faced signs. (a) The sign area/size for a sign with more than one face shall be computed by adding together the area/sizes of all sign faces, except that when two identical sign faces are placed back to back, so that both faces cannot be viewed from any point at the same time, and when such sign faces are part of the same sign structure and are not more than twelve inches apart, the sign area/size shall be computed by the measurement of one of the faces. Variance Request: GR-ID-1 (Niumalu ID/Tenant Directory) is a 2-sided ground sign located at the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway/Henry St. intersection with identical sign faces placed back-to-back. There is a 24-inch separation between sign faces. GR-ID-1 exceeds the twelve(12)inch maximum separation for 2-sided ground signs allowed under HCC Section 3-5(a)by twelve(12) inches. Niumalu requests a variance to HCC Section 3-5(a) to permit the installation of a 2-sided ground sign with twenty-four(24)inch separation between identical sign faces placed back-to-back. KVDC Recommendation: At the 1/8/19 KVDC meeting, the Commission recommended relocating GR-ID-1 to Henry Street, reducing the overall size to 50 square feet and reducing the overall height to five (5)feet. The Owner submitted revised documents, maintaining GRID-1 location at the intersection of Queen Ka'ahumanu Hwy. and Henry St.but set back approximately five(5) feet further from the Queen Ka'ahumanu Hwy. property line and mounted on top of the rock retaining wall. The overall size has been 4