2012-11-15 Leeward Exh D - Innovations

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closest residential development is the Kona Heights Subdivision in this area here that’s zoned Single-Family Residential-15,000 square feet, and then you have the Hualālai Colony Subdivision in this area here, also zoned Single-Family Residential. The Kona Heights Subdivision is about 1,000 feet from the subject property, and the Hualālai Colony Subdivision is about 300 feet to the east. The property is situated in the Urban Expansion General Plan designated area that’s shown in the crosshatch pattern; Urban Expansion allows for a mix of urban uses. And then this is the Kona Community Development Plan map for the area. You’ll see that the subject property is located in the Pua‘a-Wai‘aha Village Transit Oriented Development circle; this would require, if the property were coming in for rezoning entitlements, they would have to do various infrastructure improvements. But since they are requesting a special permit to expand an existing school, they would not have to do any transit oriented development improvements for the project. Then they also want you to know that the expansion of the school would support one of the policies of the Kona Community Development Plan, which is to support the creation of charter schools for the Kona community. The current campus was established in 2005 upon approval of Special Permit No. 1262. It is, they’re currently operating an elementary school for grades 1 through 6 on five acres, and the current permit limits the school enrollment to 200 students; they are currently operating at about 188 students. The campus includes an administrative building, a pavilion, a restroom building and four classroom buildings, as well as unpaved parking areas and walkways connecting the various buildings. Current access for the campus is via a one-way paved driveway from the highway; it is limited to right-turn in and right-turn out movements, and I will show you that later. The proposed amendment is to expand the campus by adding an additional 4.298 acres for a total of 9.298 acres. They also want to expand the grades of instruction from 1 to 6 grade up to K to 12, and add additional students for a maximum enrollment of 350 students. So initially, the plans are to construct a middle school campus on the mauka four acres that would include various buildings, classroom buildings, outdoor play areas, a covered basketball court. And then their future plans are to include a high school program, if the middle school does well and they continue to expand; however, the 350-student cap would apply to K through 12, the entire campus. They are also proposing a new access driveway from Hualālai Road to the upper campus. They were not in this application proposing any vehicular connection between the upper and lower campus, but I’m also going to talk about that a little bit later as well. They are implementing staggered school hours between the intermediate and middle school so that traffic on the highway and Hualālai Road is reduced. This is an aerial view of the property; you can see the existing school buildings in the middle of the slide here. The area for the proposed expansion is in this general outline area here; it’s currently undeveloped land. You can see a little bit of the Hualālai Colony structures over here, and then, of course, the highway running on the left side of the slide. This site plan shows their existing access; currently they come off of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway here, they travel along a one-lane paved driveway up to a large parking area here – there is also some parking on both sides of the road here – and then they travel up to the property just north. They have an access easement from the landowner to exit out onto Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway. So both of these accesses are limited to right-turn in/right-turn out only movements. But they are currently operating it as a one-way; so vehicles enter here, drop off students, exit here and go north. So you can tell that’s very limiting for the people, the parents who are traveling from the north and want to turn left into the site, they are not able to do that now. 2 EXHIBIT D