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--ter REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: July l4, 1998 Re: C-9097Bi11No.269 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:38 p.m. Chair and Membc7s Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 269, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 909, dated June 29, 1998, regarding the change of zone request by Star Markets, Ltd., at Kaloko, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-3-26:5, reports as follows: Bill No. 269 amends Section 25-8-2 (North and South Kona District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by ch<rnging the district classification for approximately 20301 acres of land from an Agricultural (A-20a) to an Agricultural (A-l0a) zoned district. The rectangular shaped property, owned in fee by the applicant, is located in the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision on the north side of Hao Street at approximately the 3,080 foot elevation. On June 19, 1996, the County Council passed Resolution No. 330-96, which established a policy relating to the amendment of zone district boundar7es within Kaloko Mauka and other Kona Watershed and Mauka Forest Areas. The resolution states that no lands above the 3,000-foot elevation within the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision or the 2,500-foot elevation above sea level elsewhere in the districts of North Kona and South Kona shall be re-classified to any zone district having a minimum lot size of less than 20 acres, except where contiguous lands held under the same or a cooperative ownership are concurrently placed in a lower density zoned district with a net effect of maintaining or reducing overall density levels and enhancing the integrity and value of the regiods watershed and forest systems. The applicant would like to subdivide the property into two 10-acre parcels to increase the potential of the property. This subdivision is in compliance with Resolution No. 58-97, approved by the County Council on June 2, 1997, which set the maximum density of two dwellings per twenty acres for lands within the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision above the 3,000 foot elevation, with certain conditions, to protect the watershed and native forest and maintain a low density pattern. Primary access to the subject area from the Mamalahoa Highway is provided by the subdivision's primary roadway Kaloko Drive, a County roadway having a pavement of approximately 22-feet with 8-foot wide grassed shoulders within an 80-foot wide right-of-way. Access to the subject property is off Hao Street via Kaloko Drive.