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(B) The requested amendments to the existing use would not adversely <br /> affect surrounding properties. <br /> Adjacent lands to the north and south of the property are zoned A-5a and are in <br /> residential and agricultural use. Lands adjacent to the east are zoned A-40a. Located to <br /> the west is the Nani Waimea Subdivision, with sixty (60) 8,000 to 9,000-square foot lots <br /> zoned A-la. The closest dwellings are located on the adjoining properties to the south <br /> and west about 120 feet from the Facility. The Facility is well screened from surrounding <br /> properties and Kauakea Street by earthen berms and landscape hedges. If the Inspection <br /> Station operates during the business hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through <br /> Friday, the amount of traffic should not significantly increase. <br /> According to Planning Department Rule No. 17 (Landscaping Requirements), in <br /> order to exclude all visual contact and reduce noise and dust intrusion between industrial <br /> and residential uses, a landscape buffer is required that is opaque from the ground to six <br /> (6) feet in height and intermittent from six (6) feet to at least twenty (20) feet in height. <br /> To meet this standard, the applicant may need to install additional landscaping or earthen <br /> berms, as needed, so that the permit area is completely screened from surrounding <br /> properties. <br /> With these mitigative measures in place, adverse noise, visual and traffic impacts <br /> upon adjoining properties will be effectively minimized. <br /> (C) The requested amendments to the existing use shall not unreasonably <br /> burden public agencies to provide roads and streets, sewers,water, drainage, school <br /> improvements, and police and fire protection. Access to the property from the <br /> Mamalahoa Highway is provided by Kauakea Street, a private roadway owned by the <br /> Kauakea Community Association Inc. The road has a pavement width of 16 feet within a <br /> 50-foot wide right-of-way. To comply with a previous permit condition, the applicant <br /> has resurfaced Kauakea Road from the highway to the property's driveway. That portion <br /> of the Mamalahoa Highway fronting Kauakea Street is maintained by the County of <br /> Hawaii. County water is available to the property and according to a 2009 memo from <br /> the Department of Water Supply (DWS), the applicant has installed a backflow <br /> prevention assembly at the existing water meter. According to previous comments from <br /> -5- <br />