2017-06-15 Leeward Exh A (USE 17-000068)

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The applicant is requesting a Use Permit to construct a new non-manned 60-foot tall steel monopalm tower with twelve eight-foot panel antennas and twelve remote radio head units mounted on top of the tower and related facilities within a 750-square foot portion of a 11.325-acre parcel situated in the County’s Single-Family Residential zoning district. The monopalm will emulate the appearance of a palm tree with the pole made to look like the trunk painted brown and imitation palm fronds on top of the pole. Additionally, the antenna will be painted green to match the frond color. The applicant is requesting the Use Permit for this facility in that it will allow Verizon adequate wireless telephone service to the center area of Waikoloa Village, to the school, nearby churches and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as to travelers along Paniolo Avenue. The height of the facility will also allow sufficient handoff of signals to existing telecommunication towers at the southern end of Waikoloa Village and Huehue Ranch. Here is the applicant-submitted site plan. On the left – oh, pardon me – on the left hand side we’ve got the entire parcel shown with the project area, or the permit area, outlined here in the red dash line. On the right hand side we’ve got a little bit zoomed in showing the existing property. This is the property of the Waikoloa Baptist Church. There is an existing childcare facility located towards the southern portion of the property and the parking area, and the telecommunication facility will be located here along the northern boundary of the subject parcel. They are proposing a twelve-foot wide, approximately 320-foot dirt road to access off of Paniolo Avenue to access the facility. The zoning for the subject parcel and surrounding area is Single-Family Residential 10,000 square feet, as indicated in yellow. Again, we’ve got the subject parcel outlined in red and Paniolo Avenue running generally north-south. And I just wanted to give you an idea and a sense of where the roadway and the facility would be located. The State Land Use Boundary designation for the subject parcel and surrounding area is Urban, as indicated in the pink color. And the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designates the subject parcel and surrounding area as Low Density Urban, as indicated in the mustard color. Here is an aerial photograph of the subject parcel. Again, we’ve got Paniolo Avenue running north-south, the Waikoloa School here. There is a single-family dwelling on the parcel as well that is acting as a parsonage for the church. Again, we’ve got the childcare facility here, daycare facility, and the church recently, back in 2016, came back for a time extension to actually build the church facility, which will be located roughly in this area. Again, we’ve got access coming off of Paniolo Avenue and the facility will be located roughly here to the north, northern portion of the parcel. Here is an elevation of the monopalm facility, again, showing that it will emulate a palm tree with palm fronds around the antenna, and the trunk painted brown and – we actually went and took a look at another monopalm facility that’s over by another project that we are doing in a few months, and they actually have a texture on the trunk as well to make it look like a palm tree, it’s pretty kind of fun. Again, there will be an eight-foot CMU wall surrounding it for safety purposes and – these are the elevations for the facility. Here is site photos that came from the application; we weren’t able to access the site to actually take a look at it, but I just wanted to give you a sense of where we are looking. This is looking west to the 2 EXHIBIT A