2023-05-04 Windward Exh C (Item 3 Punalei Makai Living Trust PL-SMA-2023-000026)

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ROY: Good morning, Commission. I'm presenting today the Punalei Makai Living Trust Special Management Area Use Permit application. Here's a location map showing the project site. You can see it's on the makai side of Hawaii Belt Road, old Mamalahoa Highway just north of Laupahoehoe Point and the beach park. The applicant is requesting to first demolish an existing single-family residence and shed that was built in 1936. They want to construct a two (2) story, 3,788 square foot interior with 2,593 square feet of exterior single-family residence. We're going to call that Dwelling 1. Construct a one (1) story, 1,574 square foot interior and 794 square foot exterior first farm dwelling and we're going to call that Dwelling 2. And then also construct a 1,000 square foot stand-alone garage approximately 28-feet from Dwelling 2. Additional work includes a construction of 2 separate individual wastewater systems. The first one will service Dwelling 1 and the second one will service Dwelling 2 and the garage. They are going to install retaining walls and of course driveways and access and then landscaping. Potable water is provided by 2 existing Department of Water Supply water meters and Board of Water Supply has already commented that they are available and can be used for this project. Here's a map of the County zoning. The project parcel is zoned A-20a so, Agricultural 20-acres. Just to the north is 2 separate parcels that are zoned A-5a so, Agricultural 5-acres. So, the majority of the area as you can see is A-20a. State Land Use for this parcel is Agricultural with a small sliver of Conservation land along the coast. I just want to note that most of that land is eroded away as it's common in this area. So, this is a shoreline parcel now and the shoreline is actually the top of pali for this parcel. Just to the south is a small area of Urban where there's a small subdivision. LUPAG has the entire area as Important Agricultural Lands with of course the coastal area which is common to be in the Open zone. But the majority of the parcel or what we're calling the entire parcel pretty much is Important Agricultural Lands. Here's an aerial photograph of the site. You can see that it's fairly clear with some trees along the periphery coast but undeveloped other than the existing single-family residence and shed. Here's another shot, I kind of wanted to show this in the next slide to give some indication of the shoreline area. A very steep cliff area and no access down there. Most folks in this area would access the shoreline or the water via Laupahoehoe Point Park and then I just added in the contours again to give you more clarity on the steepness of that. It also kind of shows that the project property is actually sloped about 35 degrees, no, 35 percent slope. So, it slopes down pretty significantly from the road, Old Mamalahoa Highway down to the shore. This is part of the reason they're actually building retaining walls because they'll need to accommodate that slope. Here's a site plan. I marked out the 40-foot shoreline setback. As you can see, they're a significant distance back, 120-130 feet back from the top of pali and then well outside the shoreline setback area. So, we're happy with that. I've marked Dwelling 1, the main dwelling and Dwelling 2. They had first applied for the Ohana, they had an approved Ohana as I stated in the background recommendation. The Director, and Deputy and myself decided that it would be more conducive to put the first farm dwelling as this parcel is pre-1976 agricultural lot and so the first farm dwelling is actually more appropriate and still gives them what they're asking for. If the Commission would like we can put a condition in the approval that would rescind the old Ohana permit from 1987. That's kind of up to you guys if you want to do that. 2 EXHIBIT C