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Application for Change of Zone — TMK (3)1 -8- 005:133 Harry & Sandy Freitas IV. PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES A. Description of access The subject parcel is accessed via an unpaved sugar plantation style road named North Kopua Road. B. Availability of water Section 23 -84 of the Subdivision Code requires that all new subdivisions have a water system meeting the minimum requirements of the Department of Water Supply. The location of the subject parcel is not within DWS's existing service limits and is situated at an elevation such that the Department of Water Supply's water system cannot provide adequate water pressure due to budgetary constraints. The water system simply cannot support the proposed subdivision without extensive improvements and additions such as source, storage, booster pumps, transmission and distribution facilities. Also it is unreasonable to have the Applicants to design, drill and develop private wells and install the necessary water system improvements. The Applicants propose that the subject parcel and proposed subdivision be allowed to utilize a privately owned individual rain water catchment system. Such a system can meet the intent and purpose of the Subdivision Code, and is allowed if the lot receives sufficient annual rainfall per year. According to GIS data and the Department of Water Supply, the subject parcel receives some 180 inches to 200 inches of water every year. With the high levels of rainfall every year, this should provide a sufficient source of water for the planned subdivision of the subject parcel. The Applicants would be agreeable to conditions on the use of a water catchment system for the proposed subdivision. Several other parcels around the subject parcel applied for and were granted a water variance of some sort. Variance 934 and 935 (to the north or the subject parcel) granted permits for catchment systems at Tax Map Key: (3) 1 -8 -005: 115, 116 and 129. Variance 08 -054 granted a water catchment variance to Tax Map Key: (3) 1 -8 -005: 127 and 178 (to the east of the subject parcel). Most recently, Variance 10 -001 has allowed a water variance at Tax Map Key: (3) 1 -8 -005: 112 allowed a water variance to the southwest of the subject parcel. All of these variances indicated that there was more than sufficient rainfall for the utilization of a catchment -based private water system. Moreover, the CDP and the Planning Department Rules and Regulations fully allow subdivisions with no more than six lots to utilize a water variance. The Applicant provides a conceptual subdivision plan for no more than six lots as Appendix 2. Page - 14