2005-03-04 Planning Commission Minutes

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Okay, agenda item for today, we have one agenda item for today. Applicant: Hawaiian Island Development Incorporated, its a Rezoning 04-034, Change of Zone for approximately 2,048.05 acres of land from an Agricultural 20-acre (A-20a) district to an Agricultural Project District. The nearest portion of the property is located approximately 1 mile northwest of Pahala Village and includes the former Higashi and Middle Moaula, Moaula Camps, Moula. HAYASHI:Moaula. ALAMEDA:Moaula, Kopu and Makaka, Ka'u, Hawaii. Okay, staff? HAYASHI:Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. If I may direct your attention to the maps on the ping pong ball board, the subject property is indicated where the red dot is. Its outlined in yellow. Pahala Village is situated here and, in this yellow shaded area. We are currently located at, the meeting place is at this location here. This is the Hawaii Belt Road that leadstowardNaalehu;andthiswouldbetheHilodirection.Thecolorsonthemapindicatethe various zoning districts. The area in dark green, including the subject property, is currently zoned Agricultural 20 - acre. We also have some areas in Pahala which are zoned for single family residential. Those are those yellow-shaded areas. We have some industrial areas, which is the old former Sugar Cane Mill processing facility, and these are in the gray-shaded areas. We also have an area thats in brown which is the multiple-residential zoned areas. This particular area here is an agricultural project district that was granted last year to the Hester Farming and that constitute, comprises of approximately 170 acres. I have various maps on the board. The applicant is proposing to develop an agricultural project district consisting of approximately 188 lots; and these lots would range from 5 acres to 50 acres in size. So there will be various sized lots within this particular area. This is their proposed subdivision layout. I must warn you that this is just preliminary at this time and more detailed plans will be finalized once the rezoning is approved or should the rezoning be approved. The, according to the applicant, basically, what they intend to do is limit the lots for agricultural purposes and also to allow for only one single family dwelling on the property. The cost of the lots at this point in time is undetermined. It will be based on what the infrastructure cost would be for the total development. And basically the reason for the agricultural project district are to seek for deviations from some of the Zoning and Subdivision Code requirements. And one of them would be water. There are currently no water system, nor will there be a municipal water system or overall public water, private water system for this particular area. Initially the applicant will be providing approximately 2,000 gallon tanks per lot; and if the applicant needed more water then they would have to provide their own system, water system. Another reason for the request would be to deviate from some of the roadway requirements as spelled out in the Subdivision Code. Basically, within the project area except for a couple of roads, which would be within, constructed with 20-foot to 24-foot wide pavement, most of the lots would be, interior lots would be 16,000 square feet and paved with, at a width of 16,000 square feet, excuse me, 16 feet. Some of these will also be gravel roads, also at a width of 16 feet. Utilities also are not available to this particular area. These include the electrical and telephone services. 2