2022-08-18 Leeward Exh A (Items 2&3 McCullough PL-SLU-2022-000006 & PL-REZ-2022-000026)

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or very extremely poor soil. But even with that, you can see that people still can grow agriculture. But what it does is it allows them the ability to create higher density; they could actually go to the point of 0.5 acre. So instead of—in the Agricultural District the minimum lot size is one acre, in the Rural District it's point, it's a half acre. But in this particular case, Anekona as well as Kanehoa, there was quite a number of CPRs that were created already, so it's not as if this is creating higher density; it's actually just trying to resolve the ownership issue, the fee simple. So instead of having one property owned by two people, it would allow separate ownership. And I'd like to acknowledge Greg Mooers here. He was instrumental in doing a majority of the rezonings that we see on the map today. But, again, it's not really increasing the density in this particular situation; it's just resolving a longstanding ownership issue. VITOUSEK: Just to follow up, I completely agree that this particular case is not adding density or anything, but I think the question was about long-term planning and seeing others coming in, and if the infrastructure improvements potentially would be needed long-term for others. So there is a big picture of planning for this type of action in the future. DARROW: Yeah KNOWLES: That's exactly right. Thank you, Chair. DARROW: And again, this, you know, as, I mean a majority of these lots, when you look at theseI'm just talking about these two subdivisions the only way that they can come in for this rezoning and be approved is if they meet those infrastructure requirements; so if they didn't have water, it wouldn't be able to happen; if they couldn't meet the overall traffic requirements, it wouldn't be permitted or they would be required to have to look at certain improvements. This particular area has improved streets, they have water in the area, and again, a majority of them already have two dwellings, so they've been in that. There are other areas that, as I mentioned, had that changed to Rural; those would have a much more difficult time coming in because of the issue of density, increasing density, the subdivisions are substandard, they don't have water, the roads are not meeting current standards, so they would have a difficulty moving forward as this application is. VITOUSEK: And are the accesses to Kawaihae Road adequate for the planned growth? DARROW: Yes. VITOUSEK: Okay. Okay, does anybody have any further questions? [None] If not, is there a motion? PAISHON-DUARTE: Yeah, I'd like to make a motion. I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the Council, County Council, on the application for a State Land Use Boundary Amendment, Docket number SLU-2022-006, based on the Planning Director's recommendation, which shall be adopted. VITOUSEK: Thank you. Is there a second? 8 EXHIBIT A