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Harry Kim <br />Mayor <br />West Hawaii Office <br />74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy <br />Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 <br />Phone (808) 323-4770 <br />Fax (808) 327-3563 <br />March 6, 2018 <br />Ms. Christine Mendes Ruotola <br />G70 <br />925 Bethel Street, 5th Floor <br />Honolulu, HI 96813-4307 <br />Aloha Ms. Ruotola, <br />County of Hawaii <br />PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />Comm. No. 2018-04 <br />Michael Yee <br />Director <br />Daryn Arai <br />Deputy Director <br />East Hawaii Office <br />101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 <br />Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br />Phone (808) 961-8288 <br />Fax (808) 961-8742 <br />RE: Pre -Consultation for Draft Environment Assessment <br />Pahoa Public Library Site Selection (Puna, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii) <br />Thank you for your letter dated January 5, 2018, requesting comments from the Puna <br />Community Development (CDP) Action Committee regarding the preparation of a Draft <br />Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the subject project. <br />Based on a range of criteria, the State of Hawaii is considering three sites for the Pahoa Public <br />Library. For the reasons stated below, the Puna CDP Action Committee would like to <br />respectfully submit Site #2 [Pahoa District Park — TMK (3)1-5-002:020] as the preferred site. <br />Site 1 — Pahoa Fire Station/Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) — TMK (3)1-5-007:017. A <br />2005 Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Study for the Pahoa Fire Station and <br />Police Sub -station articulated the following information for the area being proposed: <br />"... the son of the original lessee of the property related that wen the initial grading was <br />done the bulldozer broke into a lava tube along the northeastern parcel boundary in the <br />southeastern portion of the property. The tube appeared to project in mauka/makai <br />direction, and it was known at the time that a tube entrance was situated in a due mauka <br />direction on another agricultural lot on the other side of Highway 130. As such, a decision <br />was made to not bulldoze a roughly 30 -foot -wide corridor thought to correspond to the <br />course of the tube as it ran beneath the property. This is evident today as a swath of <br />natural terrain and vegetation within an otherwise completely altered parcel. <br />www.hiplanningdgpt.com Hawaii County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer planning&a hawaiicountygov <br />