PD BACKGROUND REPORT (PL-SPP-2024-000064)

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AMENDED REPORT (March 29 2024) PROPOSED 2-ROOM ADDITION TO AN EXISTING 3-ROOM BED AND BREAKFAST SPECIAL PERMIT (SPP 13-000151) APPLICATION GARVIN AND LAURA GOODE ALEAMAI, SOUTH HILO, HAWAII TAX MAP KEY: (3) 2-7-008: 130 I. INTRODUCTION In a letter, dated February 8, 2024, the County Planning Department accepted the application of Garvin and Laura Goode ("Applicants") to amend Special Permit (SPP 13-000151) by converting a 3-room Bed and Breakfast ("B&B") into a 7-room inn within an 8-bedroom single family residential dwelling. After due consideration of their personal goals, the nature of their current B&B operation, and the added permitting requirements to convert the B&B into an inn, the Applicants realize that continuing their B&B operation and increasing the number of rentable rooms from three (3) to five (5) rentable rooms would best fulfill their objectives. Accordingly, they wish to forego their request to establish a 7-room inn and instead request to increase the number of their B&B from three (3) to five (5) rentable rooms. II. PROJECT LOCATION The subject site is located on the mauka side of the Hawai'i Belt Highway (19), approximately % mile north or Hamakua side of the intersection of the Old Mamalahoa Highway and Highway 19. More specifically, it is located on the north side of Kalaoa Camp Road, approximately 600 feet west of Highway 19. (Figures 1 and 2) The B&B is situated on a 2.323-acre site, identified as (3) 2-7-008: 130. The Applicants recently moved into their recently completed dwelling located across of the B&B on a 3.131 acre site, identified by TMK: (3) 2-7-008: 144. (Figure 2) They intend to either have a family member or a non-family member live in and operate/manage the B&B. III. LAND USE ENTITLEMENT HISTORY A. Special Permit (SPP 13-000151) As noted earlier, the subject permit which allowed the establishment of a 1