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CARR SMITH: Okay. Would you like to comment on the recommendations, and go ahead and
<br />give us your presentation?
<br />KERN: Yes, please. Thank you very much. Again, good morning, Madam Chair, Members of
<br />the Leeward Planning Commission, all the Planning Department staff, Corporation Counsel, and
<br />anybody else viewing this. So, what we have here is an interesting, challenging project. What
<br />we've heard is a presentation from the Planning Department that talked about some of the basic
<br />land use components of it. I know there's some concerns. What we haven't heard today, and
<br />what we haven't talked about, is the story about how we got here,,,I'm going to talk a little bit on
<br />my side about this, and then I'll have Mr. Julkowski share his story. I'm not going to go into the
<br />personal depths of his story, so there might be a little bit of overlap, but I'll try to limit that to the
<br />best of our ability.
<br />I got a call over a year ago, probably a year and a -half ago, yeah, over'a-year and a half ago by a
<br />person and at that point in time that was employed, by the County and said I have a 201H, I have
<br />a client that has a 201H application that involves affordable housing and -a hardware store and
<br />it's just about to, you know, basically it need to button it up aad..it's good to go;. simple, easy
<br />project. So, I said, you know, sure, I'm happy to assist- and'help'with that. And so I did, I got
<br />involved, and the first thing I did from there after a talk with 'Mr. Julkowski and -got my head
<br />around the project was like okay, this seems to make sense to -me. We went and talked, I went
<br />and talked with the Planning Department about it, and at that point in time the Planning
<br />Department was not supporting the 2011-Iapplication as Housing was, and generally speaking,
<br />when there's a conflict with Planning and Housing, .it's,,it gets complicated. So, I said, "well,
<br />why don't we look at- it from just a` straight change of .zone`perspective and take the 201H
<br />application out of there?' , So that conversation -went on. What -we looked for was a LUPAG
<br />Map determination; so that's,the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map, which you can see is
<br />about, just on the makai border -of -the -property as a,MD use. So that would be ideally what
<br />you'd want is a Medium_Density-Uiban in that area. And in one of the first meetings it looked
<br />like that wasgoing to 'be favorable t6.get that LUPAG Map determination. And a few months
<br />later that, changed, and so -it was no'lohger supported. So, I was like, okay, it is what it is, we
<br />need to continue to move forward. Arid so, we have been moving forward with the original
<br />intention of the affordable housing and the; the commercial lots, as well as a hardware store.
<br />So there is some, afew Ahings to point out when we talk about a, say, for example, the TIAR,
<br />which I think would be. -something -that we'd want to have as a condition, if this were to be
<br />approved. But when we'l ave; ;once things kind of went further south with the Planning
<br />Department, and it was basically stated that this will not be supported, it became very
<br />challenging for the applicant to spend a lot more additional money on these, these items,
<br />especially when you hear the rest of the story. So, since then I've been trying to address this and,
<br />and work it out. I do think it's important that—so what was called out was residential housing,
<br />which actually committed to, it's going to be committed to doing affordable housing within the
<br />affordable housing guidelines. So, it's not regular homes; it's to be the affordable, 80 to 100
<br />percent AMI.
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