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4.~wA 'f REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: June15, 1998 Re: C-875/Bill No. 257 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:36 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 257, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 875, dated May 29, 1998, regazding the change of zone Ordinance No. 90-008 request by Elwin F. Hussey at Kahua I st, North Kohala, Hawaii, TMK: 5-9-07:7, reports as follows: Bill No. 257 amends Ordinance No. 90-008, which reclassified 28.832 acres of land from Agricultural (A-20a) to Agricultural (A-3a), by amending Condition B to include a time extension of three years to secure Final Subdivision Approval. The effective date of the Change of Zone Ordinance No. 90-008 for the subject property was February 13, 1990. On May 13, 1991, the Planning Director granted cone-year time extension for Condition B until February 13, 1992. The Planning Director acknowledged receipt of the subdivision plans in November 1991, and the final Plat maps were submitted in February 1997. However, the Final Subdivision Approval was not secured by February 10, 1997, hence the request for the three year time extension. To indicate that the applicant intends to complete the proposed eight-lot subdivision consisting of 3-acre parcels, the applicant's agent has stated that they received a new grading permit, and the surveyors have completed the staking. Plans for dust control and compaction aze also being made. Susan Wells Fischer, the agent for Elwin Hussey and a part owner of the subject parcel, lives across the street from the proposed project. The plans for the subject pazcel are to develop the lots and perhaps sell seven of the eight lots. Although they currently have no plans to build any homes, Susan and her husband have considered moving across the street to avoid the existing two condominiums in front of her property. Susan had asked the applicant if they wanted the CPR, but they indicated that they were not interested. Your Committee will review the possibility of placing a condition in Bill No. 257, Drafr 2 which restricts CPRs from this project. Your Committee also discussed the fact that although the subject parcel is designated as Agricultural, the soils are so bad that it cannot support any type of agriculture. There are also no plans to develop a water system in the area, so any type of development to support agriculture will not succeed. There have also been some problems in this area because residents think it is a residential azea due to the homeowner class tax exemption, when it is actually zoned agricultural. PC Report 125