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a~, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: August 5, 1997 Re: C-375Bi11 No. 107 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 2:40 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 107, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 375 dated June 25, 1997, regazding the change of zone request by Geoffrey and Janet Newlon at Kaloko, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: 7-3-26:4, reports as follows: Bill No. 107 amends Section 25-8-2 (North & South Kona District Zone Map), Article 8, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code, by changing the district classification for approximately 20.126 acres of land from an Agricultural (A-20a) to an Agricultural (A-7a) zoned district. The subject property is located in the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision at the 3,200 foot elevation along the east side of Hao Street where the applicants intend to subdivide the property into two lots in sizes of 7 and 13 acres. The applicants are currently building a home on a portion of the subject property and will sell the other portion to another couple who will build a home for themselves. Originally, the applicants intended to subdivide the subject property into 6 acres and 14 acres lot sizes and had requested a change of zone for A-Sa introduced as Bill No. 50. The Planning Commission submitted an unfavorable recommendation for the A-Sa change of zone request because of Council's Resolution No. 330-96 which established a policy that no lands above the 3,000-foot elevation within the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision would be reclassified to any zoned district having a minimum lot size less than twenty acres in order to protect the watershed and forest areas. At the Planning Committee's March 6, 1997 meeting, Your Committee referred Bill No. 50 back to the Planning Commission to consider the applicants' amended request of A-7a zoning. Bill No. 107 is to replace Bill No. 50. On June 2, 1997 Council Resolution No. 58-97 was adopted. This resolution amended Council's policy stated in Resolution No. 330-96 by allowing a maximum density of two dwellings per twenty acres of lands within the Kaloko Mauka Subdivision for parcels above the 3,000-foot elevation. The resolution recommends that A-l0a for such parcels include certain conditions recited in the resolution. These conditions aze also included in Bill No. 107. PC REPORT NO. 7 3