2016-10-20 Leeward Exh A (SPP 16-190)

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Industrial minimum lot size 20,000 square feet by the County Zoning Code. And the project area comprising of two acres of land is situated on a portion of a much larger parcel comprising about 13,285 acres, as outlined in dash blue. The project area itself is two acres in size, and currently resides on lands designated Agricultural minimum lot size of five acres. This is an overlay of the project area with the State Land Use District boundaries. The areas colored in green – I wish this pointer was a lot brighter but – the area designated in green here is State Land Use Agricultural and that also encumbers the project site. And this pink area are those lands currently designated State Land Use Urban. This is an overlay of the County General Plan. As you can see, the project area is within the area colored white, and that would depict it an Extensive Agricultural designation according to the General Plan, which is typically range, lands and pasturage. You have a green color here, which is Important Agricultural Lands to the north, and lands designated for industrial uses as depicted by the gray color. I should have noted earlier that the Māmalahoa Highway is located to the right, running top to the bottom of the map in the center of the screen. This is the South Kohala Community Development Plan Land Use Concept Map, and you may see the project area here located in the middle of the map toward the bottom. And you will also note that it’s in a blue-colored area and identified as Industrial Zoned Area. So the proposed project site is situated within that area, anticipated for industrial uses by the South Kohala CDP. This is an aerial photograph taken from the applicant’s submittals. You can see the Māmalahoa Highway off to your right here, access by an easement, and servicing the Waimea Self Storage facility, and the back of it is the DeLuz Trucking & Gravel facility, with the project site off further to the left, or makai, encompassing approximately two acres of land. The applicant is currently requesting a Special Permit to establish a concrete ready-mix batching plant facility, the manufacturing and storage of concrete precast products, and base yard for the storage of equipment, materials, stockpiling of aggregates and sand, and related uses and improvements. The project area itself encompasses approximately two-acre portion of a much larger 13,285-acre parcel. Approximately three-quarters of an acre within the two-acre project area will be utilized for the concrete ready-mix batch plant facility and water catchment tank and base yard, with the remaining 1.25-acre portion of the project area to be utilized for the manufacturing and storage of concrete precast products. An on-site graveled employee parking area will accommodate six vehicles and a landscaping buffer has been planted to mitigate noise, visual and dust impacts. The purpose of the request today as submitted by the applicant is to accommodate the Kohala Coast Concrete & Precast, LLC, which currently operates a similar batching plant in Kawaihae where their existing facility has outgrown its current space and no longer meets the company’s operational needs. The Kohala Coast Concrete & Precast, LLC’s sister company, Edwin DeLuz Trucking & Gravel, LLC, operates a base yard located on the adjoining parcel to the east of the project area, a base yard in Pa‘auilo and quarry operations in Āhualoa and Waimea. The purpose of the request is to consolidate the project operator’s business operations to a centralized location within close proximity to other existing operations, I’m sorry, in close proximity to its other existing operations, 2 EXHIBIT A