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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: Apri14, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 692Bi11 No. 229 PLACE: Couucil Chambers TIME: 1:00 p.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Communication No. 692 and attached Bill 229, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim, dated February 6, 2006, regarding a change of zone request by SCOTT GESLING at Kaloko, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-3-26:9. Your Committee reports as follows: Bill No. 229 seeks to amend Section 25-8-2 (North and South Kona District Zone Map) Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), by changing the District Classification of approximately 23.211 acres of land from Agricultural 20-acre (A-20a) to Agricultural 5-acre (A-Sa). Communication No. 692 reports that the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by Chapter 4, Sec. 6-4.3(C), Hawaii County Charter, considered the above request on January 20, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation for approval of this matter. Communication No. 692 transmits the following findings and recommendations: 1. The subject property is located along the southeast side of Hao Street, approximately 700 feet from the intersection of Hao Street and Kaloko Drive in the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision at approximately the 2,700-foot elevation. Properties to the northeast (mauka) is zoned A-20a. Lands to the northwest and southeast are zoned A-Sa and lands to the southwest (makai) are zoned A-3a and FA-3a and are in low density residential uses surrounded by forest land. Bishop Estate lands of Kaupulehu abut the property on the north at the 3,500 to 5,400-ft elevations. 2. The applicant intends to subdivide the subject parcel into four lots of approximately five acres in size. The property has been CPR'd into four units and sold to four different landowners. Two of the proposed lots (Lot A and Lot D), are improved with single-family dwellings. The lots are intended to be residentiaUagricultural lots for the four current landowners. Estimated cost of each dwelling is approximately $350,000. 3. The proposed access to the properties is from Kaloko Drive and Hao Street, both 22-foot wide paved roadways with 8-foot grass shoulders within 80-foot right-of--ways. Kaloko Drive intersects with Mamalahoa Highway approximately three miles below the subject property. 4. To address the Department of Transportation concerns regarding the rezonings in the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision and the cumulative impacts of these zone changes on the Mamalahoa Highway and Kaloko Drive intersection, the DOT has recommended improvements atthe intersection as follows: 1) illuminate the intersection at night; 2) channelize turning movements at the intersection; and 3) provide other safety improvements. PC REPORT NO. 58