PD BACKGROUND REPORT (PL-SPP-2022-015)

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6. Project Timeframe Upon approval of the Special Permit, the Applicant will immediately apply for Plan Approval, if deemed necessary, and promptly provide any additional mitigating requirements as may be required as well as commence with tennis lessons as the existing tennis facility already provides for all necessary accommodations. C. LAND USE AND OTHER REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS 7. General Plan Designation: Rural The County of Hawai'i General Plan is the policy document for the long-range comprehensive development of the island of Hawai'i. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map, as shown on Figure 4—General Plan LUPAG Map, classifies the subject property as RURAL. This RURAL category includes existing subdivisions in the State Land Use Agricultural and Rural districts that have a significant residential component. Typical lot sizes vary from 9,000-square feet to two acres. These subdivisions may contain small farms, wooded areas, and open fields as well as residences. Allowable uses within these areas, with appropriate zoning, may include commercial facilities that serve the residential and agricultural uses in the area, and community and public facilities. The Rural designation does not necessarily mean that these areas should be further subdivided to smaller lots. Most lack the infrastructure necessary to allow further subdivision. The subject property is located within Pacific Plantation Subdivision, an approximately 70-lot subdivision consisting of parcel no less than one (1) acre in size, and consistent with the type of subdivisions appropriate within areas designated for Rural uses by the General Plan. 8. State Land Use Designation: Agricultural The Project Site is situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District (see Figure 5 — State Land Use), 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, Hawai'i Revised Statutes. Note that agricultural suitability of soils within the Project Site is considered as Class D, or Poor. 5 Page