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Application for Special Permit Rodney & Lorrie Diamond TMK (3) 1- 5- 017:112 without returning to the subject property in the interim. when there are no active jobs in progress, drilling equipment will be parked on the subject property for days at a time. Deliveries to the subject property include occasional FedEx or UPS deliveries once or twice a week, fuel deliveries once every six months, and a 40' container of drilling supplies from the mainland once a year, if needed. The business flatbed support truck is used to transport sand and gravel to be the remote job sites. Extra sand and gravel not used on a job is stored on the subject property in small quantities - less than two tons of gravel and sand at any given time. Transport of farming equipment to /from the oil palm farm occurs one or two times a month. As stated previously, the subject property will not be used as a retail or wholesale outlet. Business at the subject property is done over the phone and by email. Items purchased by clients are delivered to their property. Clients will not be coming to the subject property to receive purchased items. Availability of Utilities Metered electricity, telephone, and internet connectivity are available to the subject property. However, electric demand for the residence and subject property is supplied by an onsite 10kw photovoltaic system. Water demand is supplied by an onsite private well. There is no wastewater service available to the subject property. The property has an existing cesspool that serves the residence only. The other structures on the subject property do not have plumbing, and are not connected to the cesspool. Because the existing cesspool only serves one residence with two full time residents the cesspool is not classified as a high capacity cesspool by the State of Hawaii Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Grounds for Special Permit The granting of this request would promote the effectiveness and objectives of Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended. 205 HRS The proposed use is an unusual and reasonable use of land situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District and would promote the effectiveness and objectives of Chapter205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended. In recognizing that lands within the agricultural districts might not be best suited for agricultural activities and yet classified as such, and in recognition that certain types of uses might not best strictly agricultural in nature, yet reasonable in such districts, the legislature has provided for the Special Permit process to allow certain unusual and reasonable uses within the Agricultural District. In addition, the State Land Use law and Regulations are intended to preserve, protect, and encourage the development of lands in the State for those uses to which they are best suited in the interest of the public health and welfare of the people of the State of Hawaii. In the case of the Agricultural District, the intent is to preserve or keep lands of high agricultural potential in agricultural use. The land on which the subject property is located is classified as "E" or "Very Poor" for agricultural productivity by the Land Study Bureau and unclassified by the Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) Map. Page 7