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HomeMy WebLinkAboutREP PC 034 08/14/2001 2000-2002 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: August 14, 2001 RE: C-221/Bill No. 61 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:41 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 61, transmitted jointly with Bill Nos. 62 and 63 by Mayor Harry Kim per Communication No. 221, dated May 10, 2001, regarding the State Land Use Boundary Amendment request initiated by the Planning Direetor, at Kanahonua and Waikoekoe, Hamakua, Hawaii, TMK: 4-8-06:portions of 11 and 43, reports as follows: Bill No. 61 amends the State Land Use Boundaries Map, H-34 for the County of Hawaii, by changing the district classification for approximately 55.36 acres of land from an Urban to an Agricultural zoned district. The subject properties, owned in fee by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, were once part of the proposed Amanresort development located in Kukuihaele, makai of the Honoka`a-Waipi`o Road (Highway 240) and the Old Government Road. In 1994, Royal Coast Resorts Corporation and Silverlink Holdings Ltd. (Royal Coast), applied for a Change of Zone to reclassify lands from RS-15 to V-43 and from A-40a to RS-7.5, RS-15, V-18, V-43 and A-1 a. They also applied for four State Land Use Boundary Amendments from Agricultural to Urban District and a General Plan Amendment in order to develop the Amanresort. The General Plan Amendment request was withdrawn after the area was determined to be Retreat Resort by the Planning Director under the floating zone concept. The change of zone and state land use boundary amendment applications were approved by the County Council, effective June 8, 1994. The approvals allowed Royal Coast to develop the Amanhideaway, which would have included the following development and related amenities on approximately 98 acres of land: 1. Develop a 36-unit retreat resort; 2. Convert the existing plantation manager's house into a 4-unit inn; 3. Establish seven one-acre residential-resort lots and up to 10 units of employee housing units on the site; and 4. Create 38 one-acre agricultural lots. The total number of resort units proposed were 47 units, for a total density of 85 units on the subject properties. Ordinance No. 94-63 conveyed additional land located to the rear of the adjoining RS-1 S and RS-7.5 zoned residential lots. No additional time extensions were received for this project and due to inactivity and noncompliance with the conditions of Ordinance No. 94-63, the Planning Director is seeking to downzone the subject properties to their original PC-34 PC-34 Page 2 August 14, 2001 State Land Use Agricultural zoning designations. A copy of a letter dated February 4, 2001, from Eugene McCain, Jr., to Councilman Dominic Yagong, stated that the applicant does not intend to pursue a resort development and has no objections to the downzoning of the affected properties. Trees of Kukuihaele, LLC (Tom Heers), applied for a change of zone in September 2000 to reclassify TMK: 4-8-6: 3, 13 and portion of 44 from RS-15 and V-43 to V-25 in order to develop 40 hales on approximately 32 acres. Concurrently, they requested that reference to TMK: 4-8-6:13 and 44 be deleted to relieve their parcels from being encumbered by the Amanresort ordinance. The recommendation also proposes that conditions within Ordinance No. 94-63 be repealed. The General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) map designates the area as Low Density Urban, however, the area was determined to be Retreat Resort by the Planning Director. The General Plan document provides for a floating zone concept for retreat resort areas in order to take advantage of new concepts, trends, economic influences, unique resources and other situations which may occur that would make a retreat resort a viable option for an area. The Retreat Resort Area is identified in the General Plan as "an area which provides the user with rest, quiet, and isolation for an environmental experience". The maximum hotel units allowable are up to 100 rooms. This measure originally surfaced on June 5, 2001, and was deferred because Committee Member Dominic Yagong and landowner, Mr. Augusta Stange, were not present to provide comments and express their concerns regarding the proposed downzoning. Your Committee did not entertain any discussion on this measure. Your Committee concurs with the Planning Commission and the Planning Director for recommending a favorable consideration for the State Land Use Boundary Amendment request. Your Committee on Planning is in accord with the intent and purpose of Bill No. 61, and recommends it pass first reading. AYES NOES A & E EX LEITHEAD-TODD X Respectfully submitted 'T'YLER X ARAKAKI X COMMITTEE ON PLA ING CHUNG X F.LAR[ONOFF X _ ~ ~d~ .IACOBSON X B Y JEAN LEITHEAD-TODD, CHAIR PISICCHIO X PC REPORT NO. 34 SAFARIK X' YncoNG X ADOPTED: AUG ~ ~ 2001 .