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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: October 22, 2002 RE: C-768/Bill No. 268 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 3:40 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 268, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim per Communication No. 768, dated October 2, 2002, regarding the change of zone request by Gamrex, Inc. at Holualoa 1 and 2, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-6-21:4, 9-13, and 1 ~-17, reports as follows: Bill No. 268 amends Condition I of Ordinance No. 97-99, which amended Ordinance Nos. 84-23, 84-42, 88-4, 90-62, 91-96, 93-26 and 94-34, which reclassified land from an Unplanned (U) to a Multiple Family Residential (RM-5) and Single Family Residential (RS-I 5) zoned district. The applicant is seeking a time extension of five years from the date of this amendment in order to submit plans for development and secure final plan approval of the first increment of the RM zoned area. The applicant intends to delay the submittal of plans and securing of final plan approval for the RM zoned area until all the required governmental approvals are secured, and construction of the flood control system is complete and dedicated to the County. Nothing can be approved or constructed within the RM-5 zoned area until the flood control system is dedicated to the County. In striving to accomplish their project, the following has been done. On January 17, 2002, a Special Management Area Use Permit application was filed with the Planning Department by Gamrex for the portion of the flood control system that lies makai of Kuakini Highway within the SMA. In 2001, portions of Royal Poinciana Drive and Kupuna Streets within the Kalani Makai subdivision were acquired by the County of I-lawai`i in order to complete the flood control system. This flood control system approval process was temporarily halted until ownership issues were settled for Kupuna Street and the culvert beneath it. On September 28, 2001, an amendment to an Agreement between Gamrex and the County of Hawaii Housing Authority was completed for conveyance by Gamrex of a 12.004 acre parcel to the County once flood control improvements are completed on parcel TMK: 7-6-24:25 (in compliance with Condition K of Ordinance No. 97-99.) On March 22, 1996, the Final Environmental Assessment and Negative Declaration for construction of the flood control system was filed with the Office of Environmental Quality Control by the Department of Public Works. On March 24, 1995, the Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) was issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Department of Public Works, which indicated FEMA's intention of revising the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) after the flood control system is constructed. Ordinance No. 97-99, effective on July 8, 1997, conditioned Gamrex to submit plans for the first increment of the RM-5 zoned area within five years to this date. These plans were contingent upon the Department of Public Works' approval of a drainage master plan to mitigate and eliminate any downstream impacts of the development and the applicant's completion of on-site and ofl=site flood control system improvements and subsequent dedication of improvements to the County. PC-1 OS