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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: October 19, 2004 RE: Communication No. 788/Bill No. 343 PLACE: Councilroom T[ME: 9:08 a.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was refereed Communication No. 788 and Bill No. 343, transmitted by Mayor Harry Kim, dated September 22, 2004, regazding a Change of Zone Request by Lillian Mahi, at Kalaoa f" and 2id, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-3-11:68 reports as follows: Bill No. 343 seeks to amend Section 25-8-3 (North Kona), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the District Classification of approximately 1.8629 acres of land from Agricultural-5 Acres (A-Sa) to Single Family Residential-20,000 square feet (RS-20). Communication No. 788 reports the Hawaii County Planning Commission, as required by the Hawaii County Charter, Chapter 4, Section 6-4.3(C), considered the above request and accompanying Bill No. 342 on September 3, 2004. The Commission concurred with the Planning Director's favorable recommendation on this mattes Communication No. 788, in synopsis, reports the Planning Director's findings and recommendations as the following: 1. The applicant, Lillian Mahi, is requesting a Change of Zone amendment from Agricultural to Residential for approximately 1.8629 acres of land. The applicant is co-owner of the parcel. 2. A request for a State Land Use Boundary Amendment (Bill 342) from the Agricultural District to the Urban District is being concurrently processed. 3. The subject property is located on the southwest corner of the Mahilani Drive-Mamalahoa Highway intersection in Kalaoa 1" and 2nd North Kona, Hawaii. 4. l'he applicant intends to subdivide the property into a 3-lot subdivision, creating two additional lots in the process. Each of the three lots will be approximately 20,000-square feet in size. The applicant intends to confer each of these lots to her children. 5. Access to lots B-1 and B-2 is proposed from Mahilani Drive. Access to lot B-3 is proposed from an existing access onto Mamalahoa Highway. The applicant also has proposed to construct a 10-foot wide planting screen easement along the frontage of the proposed lots. 6. All utilities are or will be made available to the project site. 7. The approval of the Change of Zone request from Agricultural 5-Acre (A-Sa) to the Single-Pamily Residential 0,000 square foot (RS-20) zoned district would result in an appropriate land use pattern that will further benefit the public based on the following: Report No. 115