PD BACKGROUND REPORT (PL-SPP-2022-000012)

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2. Parcel Background Information a. January 6, 2011—Special Permit 10-000110 (see Exhibit C) issued by the Windward Planning Commission to Yamada and Sons, Inc. to allow for the establishment of a quarry and related use on 14.99 acres of land situated immediately adjacent to the southwest of the Project Site, as shown on Figure 3 —Aerial Site Plan. This quarry remains in operation, but its supply of rock material has been exhausted, prompting the need to pursue this Special Permit application. b. The parent Parcel 002, consisting of 2,407.75 acres, is encumbered by the existing Yamada 14.99-acre quarry site described above as well as a State-issued revocable permit for the County public skeet shooting range adjacent to the north. The Project Site does not infringe upon the public skeet shooting area. c. The Applicant originally considered a quarry license area encompassing 51 acres, but reduced the Project Site to 37.882 acres to exclude the intact `Ohi`a forest and lands south of the access road as shown on Figure 3-Aerial Site Plan. 3. Surrounding Zoning/Land Uses The Project Site is situated approximately 3.5 miles from Downtown Hilo, within an area that has been witnessed to decades of industrial-type of uses, such as: a. Hilo International Airport a little over a mile to the north; b. County skeet range adjacent to the north; c. existing Yamada and Sons quarry and former quarries adjacent to the west; d. County landfill & related solid waste operations about 600 feet to the northwest; e. County stockpile area approximately 2,000 feet to the northeast; f. County's drag strip about 3,000 feet to the south; and g. County's Mass Transit baseyard about 1,500 feet to the southwest. The most notable, non-industrial type use within proximity to the Project Site is the Panaewa Farm Lots located along the east side of Railroad Avenue, approximately 2,000 feet to the west of the Project Site. Lands generally to the east and south are State-owned lands which are vacant and designated for agricultural uses. 4. ALISH: Other Important Agricultural Land Soils within the Project Site are classified as Other Important Agricultural Land according to the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawai'i. These comprise of lands other than Prime or Unique Agricultural Land that is also of statewide or local importance to agricultural use 5. Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification System: "E" or"Very Poor" The soils within the Project Site are classified as Class "E" or "Very Poor" for agricultural productivity. 8 Page