PD Background Report PL-SLU-2022-008 & PL-REZ-2022-039

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(Nene), Hawaiian Hoary Bat, Hawaiian Stilt, Hawaiian Coot, Hawaiian Duck and other seabirds. DOFAW provided recommendations to mitigate impacts on these species. 21. Archaeological/Historic/Cultural Resources: No archaeological inventory survey was conducted for the project area. According to their October 12, 2021 letter, the Department of Land and Natural Resources-State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) notes no historic properties have been documented nearby and the potential to impact significant historic properties is unlikely due to prior extensive land alteration associated with modern farming. SHPD also indicated that the subject property is outside the area known to contain segments of the Waimea Field System which comprises significant agricultural features. As such, SHPD stated no objections to the proposed State Land Use Boundary Amendment and Change of Zone. Additionally, the Planning Department has no records of historic resources on the property, and the property is not listed on the State or National Registers of Historic Places. No traditional or customary native Hawaiian rights are known to have been exercised in the area. The property has historically been used for farming by the Ishihara family from the 1930's until around 1990. 22. Public Access: There is no known public access to the mountain or shoreline that traverses through the subject property. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND SERVICES 23. Vehicular Access: Access to the proposed development is proposed via Mamalahoa Highway and Ishihara Farm Road. Mamalahoa Highway is a two-lane,paved roadway, striped with a two-way left turn lane in the median of the road, with an approximate 40- foot-wide pavement within a 60-foot right-of-way in this area. According to the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division (DPW), the section of Mamalahoa Highway fronting the subject property was transferred from County to State ownership in December 2021 and is now State-owned and maintained. Mamalahoa Highway is designated by the General Plan as a secondary arterial road and thus shall be improved to the required standard with an 80-foot right-of-way, which will require the applicant to continue to provide a 10-foot-wide future road widening setback along the property's entire Mamalahoa Highway frontage. As a result of Subdivision No. 7820, approved by the Planning Department in 2004, the subject property currently has a I0-foot-wide "No Vehicular Access & Planting Screen" easement and a 10-foot-wide future road widening -7-