2015-09-17 Leeward Exh A (REZ 15-192)

Home

of like sitting down and just doing the numbers, and the fair share impact fee is like roughly about $13,500 per lot; so if you multiply that by three, you know, you are looking at $40,000. And relative to the fees for the water facilities charge, it’s about $6,500 per lot. So just off the gate, you know, for a three-lot subdivision you are looking at fees of, you know, like nearly $60,000. And so even if you own the land, and then you’ve got tie in like whatever required infrastructure, then it becomes very costly even to subdivide a property then, you know, for family purposes. The request is like, you know, I think a number of years, maybe a couple of years ago, I had assisted another family subdivision, Harold Teshima, you know, out in the Honalo area. And essentially it’s a same type of request; it’s a family oriented type of subdivision. The utilities are all available. The property comes off of this old homestead road. Your staff is recommending, and which the applicant wholeheartedly agrees, that there be a pull-out, you know, constructed on the property. What we are suggesting is that, and we have a language along the way, is that because on the makai side of the old homestead road, the land kind of like drops down; to be able to accommodate the pull-out, the applicant would like the ability to have the pull-out be constructed on his property rather than necessarily all within the existing right-of-way. So we have language that would make that possible, you know, and whatever the additional right-of-way that he would have to relinquish and improve, he would like to then subsequently dedicate the portion to the County. I guess to answer a little bit Commissioner Unger’s question as far as, you know, the proposal is for three lots, and it’s ultimately, you know, the parents and the two siblings, and that’s the reason why they want to do a three. But from an infrastructure standpoint, however, they do have some limitation in terms of the ability to develop the property into a five-lot subdivision in spite of the, you know, the size of the property and the requested zoning, and the limitation is tied into the water availability. So currently the property is being serviced by three existing water meter, and the meters they already have an executed what-is-called like an out-of-bounds agreement with the Water Department, as well as an elevation agreement with the Water Department; so they have three meters and it’s ready to be hooked up, you know, if the rezoning is approved and they subsequently go through the subdivision process. To have like additional meters would require considerable cost and expense to upgrade the system, and thus, you know, be compliant with the Subdivision Code. The applicant also conducted an archaeological survey at the property. They found out that there is an entrance to a cave on the property on the south end of the property. And so he is proposing that that area be preserved; it’s going to be like a buffer, you know, around the portion. And he has already submitted the portion, the proposed preservation plan to the State Historic Preservation Division and just king of waiting for further comments. So the idea is once the preservation plan is approved, then he would modify the proposed subdivision layout and then submit that to the County. You will also notice that as conditions there are like, you know, as a result of comments from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, there are conditions relating to when you can or cannot clear the property; this is all in deference to the Hawaiian hoary bat, the sphinx monks, moth rather, as well as the Hawaiian hawk. So fortunately, you know, we are at the time when, you know, that’s the closedown period, so it’s not really going to significantly affect the proposed development of the property. 4 EXHIBIT A