2018-08-16 Leeward Exh B (AMEND REZ 1049)

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As the Chair said, this is an amendment to a Change of Zone. If I can direct your attention to the screen. The subject parcels are located in the North Kona District of Hawai‘i Island, more specifically in the Kaloko-Honokōhau area. For your reference the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway is running generally north-south through the slide. The subject parcels are outlined in red, the three subject Parcels 1, 2 and 3. For further reference the Kaloko Light Industrial area is adjacent to the north; this is the location of Costco and Home Depot and several other industrial and commercial uses. And then makai of the highway is the Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historic Park. County zoning for the area is a mixture of General Industrial, Limited Industrial and the Industrial-Commercial Mixed use. The State Land Use designation for the subject property is Urban. And the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map indicates that much of the subject parcels are Industrial with other Urban Expansion to the east and Open to the west. And this is in the Kona CDP Urban area. Here is an aerial photograph of the site that we are working on right now. On the left hand side you’ll see all three parcels outlined in black, and the area that this amendment really addresses is in this, within this yellow outline. And on the right hand side I blew it up a little bit so you can see, again, with Queen Ka‘ahumanu running generally north-south, and there is Allied Quarry Road, an old quarry road, that actually is, the access to the highway is no longer there after the State’s highway widening project. We’ve got the national park here makai of the highway, and to the north we’ve got the Kaloko Light Industrial area. The applicant is requesting an amendment to Condition K of Ordinance No. 04 110 to increase the area allowed for development prior to triggering the construction of Kamanu Street from the current ten acres to an area of 48.4 acres. The applicant requests that the subject condition is amended as follows – I won’t read it but I’ll give you a moment to take a look. The reasons for the request are: The applicant is not an active developer of this property and has been seeking to sell some or all of the project area since 2008 with no success due to the upfront roadway improvement requirements, specifically Kamanu Street Extension and connection between Kamanu Street and Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, being too costly to market and develop the property; the proposed amendment would provide for the sale or development of a significant portion of the West Hawai‘i Business Park, which would then provide financial resources to the construction of Kamanu Street Extension improvements; the applicant believes that due to alternative regional transportation facilities being completed since 2004, for example the Ane Keohokālole Highway between Palani Road and Hina Lani Street and the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway widening project, the immediate improvement of the Kamanu Street Extension is no longer necessary to provide for regional traffic circulation needs; approval of the proposed amendment will require that Kanalani Street be built from the existing Kanalani Street terminus in the Kaloko Light Industrial area to the West Hawai‘i Business Park South Access Road, instead of just to the North Access Road as currently required; these improvements will 2 EXHIBIT B