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- _ v. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLANNING DATE: May 6, 1997 Re: C-267 PLACE: Councilroom TIME: 1:45 p.m. Chair and Members Hawaii County Council Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 62, transmitted by Mayor Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 267 dated Mazch 2, 1995, regazding the change of zone request by Kamehameha Investment Corporation at Kahaluu, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK 7-8-IO:Portion of 50, reports as follows: Bill No. 62 amends Section 25-87 (North Kona Zone Map), Article 3, Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawaii County Code by changing the district classification for approximately 21.319 acres of land from and Unplanned (U) to a Single Family Residential (RS-IS) zoned district. The subject property is located on the mauka side of Kealii Street, mauka of the Keauhou Estates Subdivision where the applicant intends to subdivide the subject property into forty-five lots ranging from 15,000 to 24,000 squaze feet. At the time, the applicant intended to replenish the supply of residential lots to meet the present and near-future demand of residential units in the resort and to fulfill Kamehamea Investment Corporation's (KI(') long-term goal of developing a master-planned, resort-residential community. Bill No. 62 has been deferred in the Planning Committee since 1995. According to the applicant's representative, KIC has gone through a reorganization and has now refocused on its proposed development. Primary access to the subject property would be from Kamehateha III Road, which is a county road having a 100-Foot wide right-of--way with 24-foot wide pavement and 8-foot wide gravel and paved shoulders. Access from Kamehameha III Road which serves as a secondary arterial connecting Kuakini Highway to the subject property is via Kealii Street, a private roadway with a pavement width of 20 feet within a 50-foot wide right-of--way. Kaluna Street, also a private roadway with a pavement width of 40 feet within a 60-foot wide right-of--way, provides access from the subject property going southwest and eventually connecting to Alii Drive. Water is available to the subject property through an existing 16-inch waterline located along Kealii Street and sewage will be disposed of at the Heeia sewage treatment plant. An intensive azchaeological inventory study of the subject property was conducted in May and April 1991 by International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. Four new azchaeological sites and one known archaeological site was discovered on the subject property. The one known site is an old, abandoned railroad berm which runs in a north-south direction along the entire eastern (mauka) boundary of the subject property. The railroad berm which is part of a lazge berm which runs for several miles to the south of the subject property was constructed in the PC REPORT NO. 46