PD RECOMMENDATION REPORT (PL-PUD-2022-001)

Home

the Hale Ho`ola Hamakua medical complex. Immediately to the east of the project along Lehua Street is a recent 8-lot subdivision consisting of lots at least 10,000 square feet in size on lands zoned RS-10. To the immediate west of the project site are vacant lands zoned RS-10. The proposed PUD zoning is consistent with the urban,residential nature of the surrounding community and aims to provide similar characteristics to the older residential subdivisions that are common in this area of Honokaa. Furthermore, proposed residential subdivision is conisitent with the LDU and MDU LUPAG designations of the subject parcels. Additionally, exemptions requested as part of this proposed PUD,will allow the applicant to defray infrastructure costs associated with typical subdivision requirements in order to ensure that 50% of the proposed lots would be offered at affordable rates to prospective buyers. The preceding will be accomplished through the development of an affordable housing agreement between the applicant and the County Office of Housing and Community Development pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Hawaii County Code,that will be executed prior to receipt of Final Subdivision Approval for any portion of the project. This will be added as a condition of approval. Based on the preceding, the proposed PUD request conforms to the goals, policies and standards of the General Plan and the Hamakua Community Development Plan (CDP). Any residential or agricultural development shall constitute an environment of sustained desirability and stability for the district that is in harmony with the character of the surrounding area, that results in an intensity of land use no higher than that otherwise specified for the district, and that maintains the standards of open space at least as high as that otherwise specified for the district in which the development occurs. According to the applicant,Lehua Villages 1 and 2 are presented as a manner that is consistent with single-family residential subdivisions within this particular part of Honokaa town, such as the various phases associated with the Frank Texeira subdivisions, created in the mid-1950s to early 1960s, located to the south of the Project -8-