PD BACKGROUND REPORT (PL-REZ-2022-018)

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d. Real Property Tax Division records make reference to two easements relating to the Project Site, • Doc No. 9700019862 (Exhibit A) grants a utility easement in favor of Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. and GET Hawaiian Telephone Company Incorporated, affecting Parcel 31 (formerly Moonlight Road), for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, repair, maintenance and operation of poles, wirelines and/or underground lines associated with transmission and distribution of electricity, along with other privileges. This Easement will be maintained as part of the proposed subdivision. • Doc No. 9800076194 (Exhibit B) grants Access and Utility Easement 1 in favor of the Applicant over and across the adjoining lands to the west identified as TMK: 3-9-001:004 as shown on Figure 2—Section of Tax Map and in greater detail in Figure 3— Preliminary Subdivision Plat. Easement 1 currently provides an existing 40-foot wide paved physical access along the entire western boundary of the Project Site. This Easement will not be affected by the proposed subdivision action, except for partial widening of the pavement in order to accommodate the proposed internal subdivision roadways. 6. Timeframe and cost Should the requested FA-1a zoning be approved, the Applicant will be prepared to submit a subdivision application to the Planning Department within a period of one year. Upon the issuance of tentative subdivision approval, the Applicant anticipates that the design and construction of required subdivision-related improvements will take about 3 years. Anticipated site development and infrastructure systems will be somewhere around $160,000. B. LAND USE AND OTHER REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS 7. State Land Use Designation: Agricultural. The project site is situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District, which includes lands for the cultivation of crops, aquaculture, raising livestock, wind energy facility, timber cultivation, agriculture-support activities (i.e., mills, employee quarters, etc.) and land with significant potential for agriculture uses. Uses permitted in the highest productivity agricultural categories are governed by statute. Uses in the lower- productivity categories—C, D, E or U —were established by the Land Use Commission to include those uses allowed on A or B lands as well as those stated under Section 205- 4.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes. 8. Current County Zoning: Agricultural-20 acres minimum lot size (A-20a) The Agricultural (A) zoning district provides for agricultural and very low density agriculturally-based residential use, encompassing rural areas of good to marginal agricultural and grazing land, forest land, game habitats, and areas where urbanization is not found to be appropriate. In the case of the A-20a zoning district, it defines a minimum lot size of 20 acres, thereby classifying the subject properties as "non- 5 Page