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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Council Chair and Members of the County Council Page 6 mealtimes especially for lunch and dinner. The applicant anticipates that at a maximum, all existing and proposed uses of the Kilauea Lodge operation would generate approximately 46 trips per hour at full capacity. As a change of zone can allow an applicant to develop any permitted use in the CV zoning district, a condition of approval will require the applicant to submit a Traffic Impact Analysis Report(TZAR)should they develop a land use that generates over fifty(50) peak hour trips. The project site has no severe geological or topographical problems which cannot be properly rectified, or which would render the land unusable. The property is located in flood zone "X" which is an area determined by FEMA to be outside the 500-year flood plain. According to the Department of Water Supply (DWS), the subject property is not within the service limits of their existing water system facilities. Section 25-2-46(n) flawai'i County Code,related to concurrency states, "to facilitate the development of'village centers in rural areas that are not currently served by a public wetter system,, the council may waive the water supply requirenientsfin-rezonings.fbi-commercial or light industrial uses in areas that do not currently have apublic q,atersystern, and where the department ofwalersupply has no plans to build a public water system, and which are (1) designated as an "urban or rural center"or "industrial are"on Table 14-5 of'the General Plan and(2) designated.ft)r urban use on the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map of the General Plan; provided that conditions ofZoningshall require water supp[v consistent with public health and safety needs such as sanitation and"firefighting. Volcano Village is listed as an Urban/Rural Center on Table 14-5 of the General Plan; therefore, this section of the Zoning Code applies.The proposed project will include a stand- alone,20,000-gallon rainwater catchment tank for Fire Department use, and a separate water holding tank for trucked in potable water. According to the Department of Health's Safe Drinking Water Branch, authority on drinking water quality is based on the definition of a "public water system."Federal and state regulations define a public water system as a system that serves 25 or more individuals at least 60 days per year or has at least 15 service connections. All public water system owners and operators are required to comply with I-lawai'i Administrative Rules, Chapter 11- 20 (HAR 11-20), and titled "Rules Relating to Public Water Systems."As the intent of this change of zone and subsequent development is to expand the existing Kilauea Lodge and the applicant estimated 30 to 50 visitors a day to the