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4 CAMERO: And can you all see my presentation screen with no other— CARR SMITH: Yeah, looks good. CAMERO: Okay, perfect. Good afternoon Chair, and members of the Planning Commission. As stated, this is a Planning Director-initiated amendment to the Zoning Code relating to definitions, parking requirements, Use Permit requirements, and zoning district regulations for medical clinics, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities. The following slides will reflect amendments that the Director has made to the original proposed bill to address the concerns that were raised at the previous Leeward Planning Commission meeting. In the following slides you will see three amendments that the Director's proposing that will ultimately create a process for these uses to come into the Planning Department and get any necessary approvals for. It should be noted that this is an effort of the Director to address the needs of the public by amending our code to keep up with the various new forms of health services that have evolved over the years. With that, we'll begin with the proposed amendment number one. This is relating to the definition of a medical clinic. Currently, the definition of a medical clinic states that chiropractic, and massage treatment and services are not included as a medical clinic. The Planning Director is proposing that the definition of a medical clinic be amended to include that massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities shall now be considered a medical clinic. The next proposed amendment is to the personal service establishment definition. The personal service establishment definition currently includes massage facilities and chiropractic clinics as permitted under the personal service definition. The Planning Director is proposing the removal of the massage facilities and chiropractic clinics from this definition so that the definition only includes non-medical personal services such as hair salons. The Director has proposed to remove and othersimilar uses" devoted to the care of treatment of the aged, the sick, or the infirmed, out of the hospital definition located in the Use Permit section because the Department has historically considered these uses as medical clinics. The proposed amendment number two clarifies where these uses would be better suited, especially because the need for these uses are there in in the community. You can see on your slide that this proposed amendment addresses the Commission's previous concerns that a Use Permit should be required for these uses within the RM district. Therefore, in this slide the Director is proposing that a Use Permit can be obtained for a medical clinic,massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and other similar health service facilities in any of the zoning districts listed in the slide above. Again, as mentioned in the previous meeting that we had about a month ago, when Planning staff was considering this code amendment, we did realize that there is still that conflict, and we're still trying to recognize the discrepancies between the proposed amendments and the parking section of our code, so we're still using this opportunity to really rectify these conflicts by proposing to add the off-street parking requirements for the zone districts listed above with the underlined which will include the RS, RD, and RM for the commercial uses. 2 EXHIBIT D