2012-07-19 Leeward Exh A - Kohanaiki

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properties as being Open zoning. The different other colors on the map: You have Resort zoning, which is the purple, Single Family Residential, we have some Multiple Family Residential and some Industrial and also Village Commercial in the area. This is an aerial photo. It shows you the progress that is being made on the project to the makai side, and it shows you the structures that are located in the industrial area along Huliko‘a Road. And again, we show the particular area that is undeveloped that is part of this application. This is the State Land Use Boundary Map. The two colors that are represented represent Urban Development, which is the pink color, as well as Conservation, which is the blue. So in this particular area, Parcel 18 is actually identified in Conservation. As a result of this, the applicant was required to do an environmental assessment for this project, which was completed. This is the General Plan LUPAG Map for the area. It identifies the property mainly as Urban Expansion. This is the Kona Community Development Plan Map, which shows the two Transient Oriented Development areas located just mauka of the project. It also identifies the proposed frontage road, or what they call a secondary road, which runs parallel with Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway. This is the Concurrency Map, which is located within the Kona Community Development Plan. The project site is within Concurrency Zone A, and within that zone it identifies a road that is requested to be improved in this area; it is identified as Road 4A, and in the Plan it states that “Queen Ka‘ahumanu Frontage Road and provide adequate access to Queen Ka‘ahumanu Frontage Road.” So this is the proposed road for improvements being done within Concurrency Zone A. This particular project is implementing a portion of this road and complying with the requirements of the concurrency zone. It says, “The Kona CDP calls for a frontage road makai (west) of, and parallel to, Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway from the Kona International Airport at Keāhole to Honokōhau Harbor (Kona CDP Policy TRAN-1.5). The Kona CDP envisions this frontage road to serve as a secondary transit route to ‘enable the consolidation of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway vehicular access points for the developments makai of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway’ (Kona CDP Policy TRAN-1.5). As a secondary transit route, eventually the frontage road will also include bus transit stations along its path to facilitate the expansion of Kona’s bus transportation system.” The applicant is requesting a special management area use permit for the construction of a frontage road from Huliko‘a Drive intersection at Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway to Kohanaiki Way. The project involves the construction of the first portion of the frontage road envisioned by the Kona Community Development Plan, and includes the extension of Huliko‘a Drive makai of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, from the makai highway right-of-way to a newer intersection with the new frontage road, the creation of a new intersection makai of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway connecting the makai portion of Huliko‘a Drive to the frontage road, and lastly, the construction of the frontage road from the new intersection to the existing Kohanaiki Way to the north. This is the applicant’s site plan. Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway is on the upper portion of the map. This shows the extension of Huliko‘a Drive to the new intersection, and then from the intersection frontage road, the new frontage road portion up to Kohanaiki Way. This is an aerial again zoomed in. We have Huliko‘a Drive on the lower right-hand portion of the map. This extension would come down to this particular area, and then come across creating the new frontage road and then hooking up with Kohanaiki Way. The Planning Department is recommending approval of this request with conditions. I have a few items to bring to your attention. No. 1, this morning and yesterday the Planning Department had received a comment letter from Kaloko-Honokōhau National Park Service. This is dated July 19, 2012, and it’s been handed out to the Commissioners. Basically, they are concerned, they are respectfully requesting that “appropriate mitigation measures to protect cultural and biological aquatic resources from roadway-associated nonpoint source pollution” be added in the conditions. 2 EXHIBIT A