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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: May 1, 2006 Re: Comm. No. 766Bi11 No. 251 PLACE: Council Chambers TIME: 10:00 a.m. Council Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 766, reports as follows: Bill No. 251, transmitted via Communication No. 766 from Mayor Hany Kim, dated March 13, 2006, presents a Change of Zone Request by SCD Kona 108, LLC at Lanihau ls' and Moeauoa ]s' and 2"d, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-5-3: 7, 8 and 9. Bill No. 251 seeks to amend Section 25-8-3 (North Kona Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), by changing the District Classification from Agricultural (A-Sa) to Residential and Agricultural (RA-la) and Multiple Family Residential (RM-3.5), for approximately 108.2 acres of land. Communication No. 766 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 February 24, 2006. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's reasons for a favorable recommendation for approval of this matter. Communication No. 766 transmits the following findings and recommendations: 1. The subject properties are located mauka of Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway, adjacent to and ending mauka of Lowe's, approximately 400 feet north of Malulani Gardens Subdivision, Lanihau ls' and Moeauoa Is' and 2"°, North Kona, Hawaii. 2. The applicant is proposing to develop "The Kona Coffee Estates" consisting of fifty-seven (57) approximately 1-acre agricultural lots, sixteen (16) attached for-sale affordable housing units on approximately five acres, and a Salvation Army complex that includes a church, pre-school, community service store and administration facility on approximately five acres of land. The proposed project does not include the 17.6-acre Mohala Commercial Village (Lowe's Home Improvement Center) located between the project site and Henry Street. The proposed Salvation Army Complex will be located directly mauka of Lowe's and the affordable housing units located directly mauka of the Salvation Army Complex. 3. An extension of Malulani Drive will serve as the single access road to the proposed project. An 80-foot wide road right-of--way shall be provided within the subject property for the planned extension of Hienaloli-Kahului Road and individual lots shall not directly access from the Hienaloli-Kahului Road Extension. The Traffic Impact Analysis Report dated October 1 I, 2004 concludes that the proposed traffic signal at the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway/Malulani Drive intersection would mitigate existing problem with traffic trying to exit Malulani Drive. The TZAR should but does not, address the operation of the intersection of Hale Kapili Street and Malulani Drive, or the existing Malulani Gardens Subdivision private rand. A Supplemental TZAR dated March 7, 2005 summarizes traffic impacts of having an additional 60 affordable residential units makai of the project site. The July 22, 2005 TIAR summarizes traffic impacts of PC REPORT NO. 67