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proposed farm and garden retail store will stock and sell various products related to farming,
<br />animal care, and agriculture maintenance including the following: primarily Hawai'i grown
<br />agricultural products, vegetables, herbs, fruits, coconut trees, native plants, fragrant/seasonal
<br />flowers, ground covers, palms, trees, plants conductive to bee pollination, and medicinal plants;
<br />and other non-agricultural products including farm feed, scratch feed, pet food, dog and cat
<br />wormers, fish food, aquaculture products, plant pots, pesticides and herbicides, various birds,
<br />live fish, egg laying chickens, and agriculture related tools.
<br />Proposed improvements on the property include a 3,600 -square foot building including an office,
<br />storage, and retail space of display products and conduct transactions. Approximately 3,000 -
<br />square feet of outside nursery space to grown and house various live plants, a greenhouse, and a
<br />compacted gravel parking area with 15 regular parking stalls and one parking stall for—the
<br />disabled parking stall.
<br />Pardon me, I got a little excited here. The Applicant anticipates the need for seven full-time
<br />employees and one part-time employee for the business, and they are proposing the following
<br />hours of operation: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from
<br />8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Applicant is proposing to complete construction within one year of
<br />receiving all the necessary planning and building permits with an estimated cost of a $150,000.
<br />The subject—pardon me, the zoning for the subject parcel is Agricultural and is also surrounded
<br />by other Agricultural zoning and some Commercial and Residential zoning more consistent with
<br />Pahoa Town. Again, for reference, we've got Pahoa Bypass Road generally running north -south
<br />through the slide.
<br />The State Land Use designation for the subject property and much of the surrounding area is
<br />Agricultural as indicated in green, and I've got the Urban designation indicated in pink that's
<br />more consistent again with Pahoa Town.
<br />The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designates the subject parcel as Low
<br />Density Urban as indicated in the mustard color. Across the Bypass Road, you've got some
<br />Extensive Agriculture and Important Agriculture Lands and then Medium Density Urban, more
<br />of the orange color, is again consistent with Pahoa Town.
<br />The subject parcel is located outside of the Pahoa Regional Town Center boundary as was
<br />designated by the Puna Community Development Plan. The CDP designated two areas of Pahoa
<br />Town as part of that regional town center and that's indicated by these dashed lines. As you can
<br />see, the subject parcel is more makai and outside of that area.
<br />Here's an aerial photograph of the subject parcel and surrounding area. Again, we've got the
<br />Pahoa Bypass Road generally running north -south. This photograph shows the property being
<br />vegetated; however, the property has been cleared of the vegetation and graded, so it looks a
<br />little bit different on the ground today. The Applicant's submitted site plan, you've got now the
<br />Bypass Road on, running east -west on this image. The access would come off the Bypass Road
<br />toward the east, on the eastern side of the property and access a parking area here fronting the
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