2013-08-01 Windward Planning Commission Transcript Kuwahara

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property that’s zoned Agricultural-20 acres. This is the State land Use District designation for the property. The light green is Agricultural, so the properties are currently in the Agricultural District. And the pink is Urban. So you can see Pāhoa town is primarily Urban, as well as those commercial uses that I mentioned before. So the applicant is requesting to change the State Land Use District for the properties to Urban. This is the General Plan Map for Pāhoa. You can see that the properties are in an area designated Medium Density Urban that’s shown by the orange color. And that allows for Single- Family Residential, Multiple-Family Residential, as well as Commercial uses. This is the Puna Community Development Plan map for Pāhoa. It shows the regional town center in two separate areas that are outlined by these little circular dash marks. So you have old Pāhoa town on the right side of the slide and then, which the Community Development Plan designates this area mostly for community uses that serve the people living in Pahoa. And then you have a regional use town center out near the Bypass that is intended to serve the greater lower Puna area for commercial uses. And the subject property is outlined in green here; and it’s not in the town center but it’s just adjacent to that area. So as I mentioned before the applicants are requesting a State Land Use Boundary Amendment from Agricultural to Urban for 9.93 acres; and a Change of Zone from Agricultural-1 acre to Village Commerical-10,000 square feet. And the reason they’re requesting these changes is because they plan to develop a commercial center consisting of about 104,000 square feet of leasable space. The applicant, in order to serve the commercial development, will need to extend Kahakai Boulevard over a State-owned road lot; and that will serve as the primary access. They’re currently proposing two driveways off of the Kahakai Boulevard extension. They’ll also have a secondary access off of the Pāhoa Village Road. And I believe now they’re also proposing two driveways off of Pāhoa Village Road. Other transportation improvements that they will implement is to signalize the Kahakai Boulevard/Pāhoa Village Road intersection, provide four crosswalks and dedicated turn lanes, as well as widen the Village Road fronting the property, provide turn lanes there, in and out of their driveway accesses, as well as curb, gutter, sidewalk and drainage improvements. They’re also, as I mentioned, going to construct the Kahakai Boulevard extension to County dedicable commercial standards that would include curb, gutter, sidewalk and drainage improvements. And they’re also proposing to install a bus stop along the west side of Pāhoa Village Road fronting the property. So these improvements will make a little bit more sense once you see the map. This is an aerial view of the property. You have Malama Market Place here, Woodland Center here. Pāhoa Auto Parts is this building. And then the subject property, I’m just going to run along here with the outline, is in this area here. The Kahakai Boulevard is in this location here. So the Kahakai Boulevard would be extended to the rear property line in this direction here. And then you have Pāhoa Village Road running in a north-south direction. This is the applicant’s preliminary site plan. If the zoning were to be approved, they would be allowed to establish any of the uses that are in the Village Commercial Zoning District. At this time though they’re proposing a supermarket, and a paint and hardware store, a garden center, a 2 EXHIBIT A