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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: June 5. 2001 RE: C-229/Bill No. 66 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 10:11 a.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 66, transmitted jointly with Bill No. 67 by Mayor Harry Kim per Communication No. 229, dated May 23, 2001, regarding the State Land tlse Boundary Amendment request by EI~P Corporation, at Lanihau 15', North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-5-3: l9, reports as follows: Bill No. 66 amends the State Land Use Boundaries Map, H-7 for the County of Hawaii, by changing the district classification for approximately 5.083 acres of land from an Agricultural to an urban zoned district. The subject property, owned in fee by the applicant, is located on the west side of Henry Street, across the Crossroads Shopping Center and approximately 350 feet south of the intersection of Henry Street and Palani Street. Mr. Darrell Liftin, Executive Vice President of EHP Corporation, authorized the filing of the subject applications. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map currently designates the property for High Density uses, which will allow for commercial, multiple residential and related services. Existing lands in the vicinity of the project site and extending mauka of the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway to the Makalapua Shopping Center area is proposed for reclassification from Urban Expansion to High Density, further solidifying this area as the High Density core for this section of North Kona. The Kona Regional Plan adopted by the Planning Commission in April ] 9~4, designates the subject area for General Commercial (CG) and Single Family Residential (RS-4) uses. The Keahole to Kailua (K to K) Development Plan, adopted in l 991, provides a development plan consistent with the General Plan, for those lands situated between the Kona International Airport at Keahole to Palani Road. While the project site is situated to the south of this planning area, it did define the extension of a Mid-Level Arterial in the vicinity of the project site as well as identified Urban Expansion uses makai of its general alignment, which includes the project site. This Urban Expansion area encompasses lands along both sides of Henry Street, which is now the site of the existing Crossroads Shopping Complex and other proposed commercial and residential developments. The project area is located outside the boundaries of the Kailua Village Special District and is not within the Special Management Area (SMA). PC-24