PD RECOMMENDATION REPORT (PL-REZ-2021-006)

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The northern half of the property is located in an area designated for urban uses and the southern half of the property is located on the "Waimea Conceptual Plan" in an area designated for the"Small Farms and Ranches Preservation Program."The SKCDP envisions the development of an action program to acquire critical open space areas in east Waimea within this area. According to the SKCDP, the small farm and ranch lots in East Waimea are visually important to maintain the rural and paniolo character of Waimea. The SKCDP indicates that time will be needed to implement a number of important open space preservation tools and programs, and that while these tools and programs are being put into place,private lands that are currently zoned A-5a, A-1Oa, A- 20a, or A-40a should retain their current zoning. Exceptions can be made for affordable housing, agricultural cluster subdivisions, and small-scale rezonings of 4 lots or less that may assist families in allowing their children to obtain individual properties. The CDP also recommends reducing the General Plan low density urban designated areas in Waimea town. However,the subject property holds the General Plan LUPAG designations of Low Density Urban (LDU) and Medium Density Urban (MDU), both of which allow for a mix of residential and commercial type uses, as is proposed for the subject project. The establishment of commercial type uses on the subject parcel would not be expanding the existing commercial center for Waimea town as there are several existing commercial operations on commercially-zoned property further east beyond the subject site. Additionally, properties 800 feet to the east on both sides of Mamalahoa Highway are designated Urban by the State Land Use Commission. All essential utilities and services are available to the site. Mamalahoa Highway is currently striped with a two-way left turn lane in the median of the road along the frontage of the subject property. The existing dwellings on the subject site are currently accessed via Ishihara Farm Road, a private road over an approximately fifty (50) foot wide combined easement right-of-way. The subject property was allowed the ability to utilize nonexclusive access easements over and across Easements "5" and "6" and a non-exclusive utility easement over and across Easement"9", as granted by the Declaration of Easements dated May 11, 2005. The applicant is proposing three (3) driveway accesses to the project site. Two access points will be from Mamalahoa -4-