2023-05-04 Windward Exh B (Item 2 BWA LLC PL-SPP-2023-000033)

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HATA: There are no testifiers on Zoom. LIN: Okay, thank you. We'll move on to staff presentation then. Jessica? ANDREWS: Thank you Chair. Give me a second here and I'll get the presentation loaded up. Okay,just want to confirm on Zoom. Janice, can you see the presentation? HATA: Yes, I can see it. ANDREWS: Great. HATA: Thank you. ANDREWS: Thank you. So, as previously stated, this is an amendment to a Special Permit application for Botanical World Adventures. The subject property is outlined here in red. It's located just mauka of Highway 19 just to the north of Hakalau on the Hamakua Coast. The applicant's request, excuse me, so Special Permit No. 04-005 was originally approved on June 5, 2004, to allow construction of a visitor's center, parking lot and related improvements on approximately 3.53 acres of land and presently the applicant is requesting a 5-year time extension to comply with Condition No. 2 which is the time to complete construction. This is the County zoning map, and you see that the subject property outlined in red is zoned Ag-20 so Agricultural 20-acres as is most of the property around. Most of the properties around the subject property to the south around Hakalau there's some Single-Family Residential and some Industrial zoning. There's a small portion of CV-10 and there is some Ag-10 acre but,predominately this area is Agricultural zoning. The State Land Use is Agricultural with the exception of the Hakalau area which is a little unique in that it's Urban. The General Plan designates this property as Important Agricultural Lands. There is some Open designation along the shoreline which touches kind of the upper north makai corner of the property there, but the permit area is as is most of the subject property is Important Agricultural Lands. There is some Conservation land a good distance to the south of the property and then again Hakalau has some unique Low Density Urban and even Industrial designation there. So this applicant site plan here shows the layout of the entire property with this portion in the lower right of your slide showing the permit area. Where the applicant currently has this labyrinth maze where visitors come and then the existing parking is here just off of Old Mamalahoa Highway. And the proposal for the eventual visitor center will be that the applicants or that the users, guests access the property down this driveway off of Leopolino. So, that would be the eventual driveway and then that the visitor center will be constructed to be a more permanent structure. Here you see the aerial photograph showing you the development of the permit area which again is in this kind of lower mauka portion of the property and Leopolino Road is the access road off of the highway. These are some views of the highway access. So, at Highway 19 at the intersection with Leopolino Road, you're looking in the northbound direction on the left and looking in the southbound direction on the right there. This is the view of the Leopolino Road looking on the 2 EXHIBIT B