PD RECOMMENDATION REPORT (PL-REZ-2022-023)

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RKe`AlohaLaniLLCREZ-7/8/22 COUNTY OF HAWAII PLANNING DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION REPORT KE`ALOHA LANI,LLC CHANGE OF ZONE APPLICATION (PL-REZ-2022-000023) Upon careful review of the request to amend conditions of Ordinance No. 17 65, the Planning Director is recommending that a favorable recommendation with modifications for the applicant's proposed amendments Conditions E and I be forwarded to the County Council. Since this recommendation is made without the benefit of public testimony, the Director reserves the right to modify and/or alter this recommendation based upon additional information presented at the public hearing. This favorable recommendation is based on the following findings: The applicant, Ke`Aloha Lani LLC,has submitted an application to amend conditions of Change of Zone Ordinance No. 17 65 which was originally approved on September 29, 2017 to change the zoning from an Agricultural (A-20a)to General Industrial (MG-20) zoning district for 6.505 acres of land. Concurrently, Ordinance No. 17 64 was approved to change the State Land Use Boundary designation from Agricultural to Urban. As the subject ordinance has infrastructure obligation conditions that the applicant has not met or reasonably fulfilled, the applicant is requesting to amend certain conditions of the ordinance, specifically Condition E and I of Change of Zone Ordinance No. 17 65. These amendments are to the following conditions: ■ Condition E: (Timing of Fire Flow Improvements) ■ Condition I: (Timing of Roadway Improvements) The applicant originally proposed to develop a 7,500+/- square-foot beverage processing facility (microbrewery)that would include a 2,000+/- square foot supportive visitor/retail sales/tasting center with a 300 square foot kitchen, as well as required improvements to the access road and parking areas. According to the applicant, they request that the water and road infrastructure improvements be implemented in conjunction with a subdivision and not a certificate of occupancy for a structure. The reason is that the requirement for the industrial or commercial level roadway requirement is specifically triggered or called for in the -1-