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0 0 <br />We are, therefore, requesting approval of this amendment to allow us to continue with <br />our innovative idea to promote self- sustainable community health and welfare at a <br />community level using community resources. <br />SUBJECT PROPERTY DESCRIPTION <br />Location <br />Two of the subject parcels are owned by the Village Green Society Ltd. and are TMK 1- <br />2 -9 -034. (10.35 acres) and TMK 1 -2 -038 -050 (6,000 sq ft). The third lot TMK 1- 2 -038- <br />049 (6,000 sq ft) is leased by Hawaii's Volcano Circus. The lots are all located within the <br />Kehena- Keauohana- Keokea Homesteads in the Puna District. The applicant proposes to <br />use an area designated by metes and bounds of 3.013 acres on TMK 1 -2 -9 -034 plus TMK <br />1 -2 -038 -050 (6,000 sq ft) and TMK 1 -2 -038 -049 (6,000 sq ft) (Exhibit G) <br />Existing Uses and Structures (Exhibit H) <br />The HVC Center comprises of a 3,500 sq ft Pavilion (Building Permit B2007- 1279H) and <br />a 2,600 sq ft Greenhouse (Building Permit B2007- 0649H). These buildings, parking lot <br />and landscaping occupy approximately 3 acres. <br />(Phase II of SPACE included an additional 5,040 sq ft building with a commercial <br />kitchen, offices, a library and a shower facility also twelve student camping sites were <br />approved by SP# 1122 but none of this has been built.) <br />Uses of HVC Center facilities include school classrooms, performance arts education and <br />training, equipment storage, farmers markets, community events and meetings, family <br />activities, public performances and emergency shelter facility <br />Topography <br />The HVC Center site is almost entirely on the 1955 flow. The vegetation on the 1955 <br />flow is sparse, consisting of lichen covering most of the surface with dispersed young <br />`ohi' a trees. <br />The Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification report designates the site poorly <br />suited for intensive agricultural activities. The soils series is almost all bare `a`a lava with <br />no soil material. It is well drained, with slopes generally about 20 %. It is very poorly <br />suited for machine till ability. <br />Under the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) <br />classificatory system, the subject site is designated "Other Agricultural Land" or not <br />classified. <br />15 <br />