PD RECOMMENDATION REPORT (AMEND SMA 25_PL-SMA-2021-001)

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going compliance requirements (e.g.,modifying existing conditions that required the development and approval of public access or water quality management plans to conditions that require compliance with the approved plans). Finally, the Director is recommending the modification of some conditions to match current regulations or standard condition language (e.g., inadvertent finds of archaeological or historic resources). SMA 25 and its amendments permitted the development of four(4), 18-hole golf courses throughout the WBR, two of which have been developed as the Waikoloa Beach Course and King's Course, and two (2) have not been developed. While not expressly part of the applicant's request, the Director is recommending amending SMA 25 to remove two (2) additional golf courses entitled under an August 1991 amendment to SMA 25 and related conditions. Lands planned for these new courses include both a portion of the land area slated for the Kumu Hou project and the land adjacent to the north consisting of the current `Ainamalu project area. That permit amendment required construction of the first new golf course to be completed by 1997 and the second course to be completed shortly thereafter. Through a series of administrative and Planning Commission approved time extensions, the final deadline to complete construction of the first course was before April 2013 and Final Plan Approval for the second new golf course was to be secured within one (1) year thereafter. Previous owners of the adjacent `Ainamalu property secured Final Plan Approval, a grading permit, and completed initial earth work for the first new course as required by the permit. However, based on changing market conditions and subsequent sale of the property, the course was not completed by the required time. According to letters to the Planning Director,neither JPL Hawaii, LLC (current owner of the `Ainamalu property) nor the applicant intend to develop the additional golf courses entitled under the permit. Instead, both entities intend to repurpose those land areas for the Kumu Hou project(in part) on the applicant's property and a mix of other residential and visitor uses and related improvements to complete the `Ainamalu project. As such, they are supportive of the recommended removal of the entitlement to develop two (2)new golf courses and the deletion of related conditions from SMA 25, which largely were added in the 1991 permit amendment to apply to development of the two (2) -3-