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developing a specific chronology of land use history for the project area. Eleven (11) sites that have been previously approved for data recovery by SHPD will be reassigned a preservation treatment, reducing the total number of sites that will be subject to data recovery from eighteen (18) to seven (7) and increasing the number of preservation sites from sixteen (16) to twenty-seven (27). SHPD approved the AIS for the project in 2016. The project archeologist contacted SHPD in 2018 with revised treatment recommendations based on the reduced development proposal. By letter dated June 3, 2019 the SHPD agreed to the revised mitigation commitment from data recovery to preservation for these sites. (Planning Department Exhibit 2—June 3, 2019 Letter) 25. Scenic Resources: The project has been designed to include restrictions in density, grading, tree removal, home height, and home site location to minimize impacts on protected scenic view planes, including views from Akoni Pule Highway to the coast. The project will contribute to the transformation of views of undeveloped coastal areas occurring in North Kohala, but the effect is not severe due in part to the remaining undeveloped coastal areas to the North, as well as the presence of a large development mauka and south of the project parcel. Hawai'i State Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) No. 179, H.D. 1, adopted in 1988, urged the retention of view ad open space makai of Kawaihae-Mdhukona-HdW-i Road from Kawaihae to Upolu Point. Concern with view planes by the community forced integration of view plane protection strategies into the Hawai'i County General Plan and the North Kohala Community Development Plan. To that end, the owner proposes: 1) to have all homes set back from Akoni Pule Highway by a minimum of 150 feet, 2) all homes sited 100 feet from the shoreline mauka of the ala loaljeep road, and 3) all proposed structures will have a maximum height of 25 feet. Due to these proposed restrictive covenants the applicant states the project will maintain view corridors and scenic resources of this coastal area, including mauka-makai lateral views. 26. Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: According to the applicant, for subdivisions near the shoreline in leeward Hawai'i, key considerations are the potential for increased runoff from storms, increased fire risk from droughts, higher wind loads from more frequent hurricanes, and rising sea levels. Because of this the applicant is proposing to place all 10