2012-11-15 Leeward Exh A - Riverbend

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acre zoning located across the street, which is also the subject of your next agenda item, and commercially zoned land indicated by the pink color. This is a depiction of the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map, which roughly designates the project area and surrounding lands as for Extensive Agricultural Uses, Open designated lands indicated by green here, Medium Density Urban, which could accommodate commercial and multiple-family residential use indicated by orange, and Low Density indicated by the yellow color. I should note that the General Plan is a broad-brush document that defines the land use policy direction for the County of Hawai‘i. This is a depiction of the South Kohala Community Development Plan. The project site is located right where this little icon is situated. Again, Waikoloa Road is in this vicinity here, with Paniolo Avenue in the proximity. The CDP map does identify the project site as a potential community center and park site, as well as it does identify that the project site and immediately surrounding lands maintain an Agricultural zoning designation. And I can clarify that further on in the presentation. This is an aerial photo of the subject property, with Waikoloa Road running left to right at the bottom of the site plan, I mean, the aerial photo, and Paniolo Avenue extending to the top of the map. The project site is located in this vicinity here. Off to your right is the Waikoloa Stables, and the Highlands Shopping Center is across Paniolo Avenue in this vicinity here. This is a further close-up of the intersection of Waikoloa Avenue running left to right and Paniolo Avenue extending to the north. The project site is located in the upper right hand corner. Again, the applicant’s request before you today is a State Land Use boundary amendment from Agricultural to Urban for approximately 14.622 acres of land within a larger roughly 31-acre property. Also accompanying the request is a change of zone application from Agricultural-5 acres to Village Commercial-20,000 square feet. The applicant is proposing to develop a commercial shopping complex whose concept reflects approximately 170,000 square feet of commercial floor area. This is a concept map of the applicant’s master plan. Again, Waikoloa Road at the bottom here, Paniolo Avenue extending to the north, and the project site itself is shown in this mustard color that comprises approximately 14.6 acres within the larger 31-acre property. Off to the right hand in the area colored green is roughly 10.5-acre site that is currently undergoing subdivision, and the applicant intends to provide the parcel to the County of Hawai‘i for development into the park site consistent with one of the policy recommendations within the South Kohala Community Development Plan. There is a pending subdivision currently before the Planning Department, which would parcel out this 14.6-acre project site, as well as the park site, with the remaining five, almost six-acre remainder parcel located in the upper left corner. This is a photograph from Waikoloa Road, looking makai at the Highlands Shopping Center, with the project site off to your left, or right, sorry – feel free to correct me throughout the presentation, my apologies. This is looking at Waikoloa Road from across the street to the south, looking directly at the project site. The Planning Director is recommending favorable consideration of both the State Land Use boundary amendment from Agricultural to Urban, as well as the change of zone request to Village Commercial-20,000 square feet zoning designation. I would like at this time to supplement the Director’s recommendation report. We have distributed to you this morning a sheet of paper, which references “Item No. 1 – Hawaiian Riverbend, LLC,” and you have before you two proposed amendments to the Director’s recommendation and the conditions of approval therein. Condition I: We ask that that be amended with the additional language highlighted in yellow. And what that 2 EXHIBIT A