2013-08-01 Windward Planning Commission Transcript PD UH

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Also, part of this request is a portion of an 80-foot wide proposed road as depicted on the City of Hilo Zone Map. As you can see, that alignment will connect Komohana Street with Kumukoa Street near the University Heights Subdivision. We are asking, as part of this change of zone request, to reclassify the University lands to the University zoning district. We also want to eliminate this 80-foot wide proposed roadway that would basically bisect the University’s main campus. As you can see here, this is the General Plan LUPAG (Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide) Map which provides the policy direction for land use within the County of Hawai‘i. The blue color indicated here depicts those lands where the County has envisioned university-related uses. You can barely see it, but that’s where Komohana Street is, where my pointer is showing. While the General Plan depicts lands both makai and mauka of Komohana Street, the subject of today’s request is really only on those lands situated makai of Komohana Street. And within the area makai of Komohana Street, you not only have the University of Hawai‘i main campus but you have the Komohana Ag Station, which is located just in this vicinity here where my pointer is showing. You have the University Park complex where you have the Imiloa complex, the University School of Pharmacy complex located there, as well as other facilities associated with observatories on Mauna Kea, like the Gemini complex and Subaru. This is a map showing, depicting the City of Hilo Zone Map and the proposed roadway alignments that are shown on the City of Hilo Zone Map. And what these road alignments do is help plan and program in the future roadway alignments within the City of Hilo. One of them is, as you can see at the bottom in the purple dash line is the proposed realignment of Puainako Street so that it connects with the existing Puainako Street Extension, where my pointer is showing. And as you can also see it shows that 80-foot road extension that we’re asking to be deleted as it goes through the University’s main campus. As you can see this road continues on further mauka to eventually connect with the existing Mohouli Street Extension which is located here off to the top left of the map. So in essence it renders this alignment here somewhat redundant because you already have Mohouli Street extending and connecting with the existing Mohouli Street here, which then provides circulation throughout this section of Hilo. And due to that basic redundancy and the fact that you’re proposing an 80-foot roadway right through the main campus of the University of Hawai‘i, we are asking that that alignment be deleted from the maps. So it would no longer be programmed into our planning efforts in the future. Again, just to recap, we are asking for a change of zone from Single-Family Residential-10,000 square feet, and that should also say Agricultural 1-acre zoned lands, to the University District for approximately319 acres of land. The main campus itself includes approximately 115 acres of land and accommodates a University Park and Techonology complex. The expansion area, I’m sorry, that’s not correct. It shouldn’t be mauka of Komohana Street. As I mentioned, everything is going to be occurring makai, the rezoning. And it does also include the UH Agricultural Park. The reasons for this request are to make it consistent with the General Plan designation that I showed you earlier, as well as to allow flexibility of uses that will help support the existing University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Complex. 3 EXHIBIT B