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HAYASHI: Just for your information, as far as both bills, we are proposing or <br /> recommending that the Commission continue it again to the Kona meeting and take up action at <br /> that time. <br /> GRAHAM: All right, thank you. So our next agenda item on our regular agenda is <br /> shown as No. 5, the initiator is the County Council; and we have an addendum to our agenda <br /> which has a Sa which is a related item initiated by the Planning Director. They are both <br /> amendments to Chapter 25 of the Zoning Code in Hawaii County and they both relate to what's <br /> called superstores. Item 5 is an amendment to the Zoning Code whereby superstores would not <br /> be permitted in any zoning district. And superstores are defined as a business exceeding 90,000 <br /> gross square feet, offering for sale more than 25,000 different stock keeping units, and dedicating <br /> more than 20,000 gross square feet of floor area to the sale of groceries. Agenda Item Sa <br /> initiated by the Planning Director in response to this would create a new zoning district called the <br /> superstore zoning district, which would be the only zoning district where a superstore is allowed. <br /> And I believe the Planning Director gave us a rather thoughtful write-up on this explaining his <br /> reasons for making this additional Sa item that he initiates; and just paraphrasing briefly I think <br /> he's taking the position that if we are going to remove this superstore capability through the <br /> zoning districts on the island it would be appropriate to create a new zoning district such that if <br /> the County wished to have superstores somewhere the County Council would have to effectively <br /> zone an area specifically for that purpose. And so without the County Council taking that action <br /> it would not be allowed. But by doing this he has at least left a legal opportunity for such a <br /> zoning district to be created if the County's representatives in the County Council and the Mayor <br /> chose to do that. So does that meet your approval as a representation? <br /> <br /> YUEN: Yes. <br /> SIRACUSA: Question, please. <br /> GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Siracusa. <br /> SIRACUSA: Since No. 5 was brought already before the public in Kona and is coming <br /> here now to this side, it seems to me that we can vote on No. 5. However, Sa did not have a <br /> public hearing on the Kona side; and so it seems to me that to lump them together when we can <br /> vote on one but not on the other until we get to Kona, that maybe confusing not only for the <br /> Commissioners but for members of the public who are here. So it seems to me that we should be <br /> taking S first and dealing with that and taking our vote on it; and then take the public heazing on <br /> Sa which we will still then have to go back to Kona and have a hearing on that side of the island. <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you, Commissioner Siracusa. I'm going to ask Mr. Torigoe in a <br /> second here about this. But my understanding is that we did have them both in our possession as <br /> Commissioners in Kona, but only the No. 5 was agendized, as you say. And so we got to hear <br /> <br /> that in two places but we only heard the one in Kona. So that technically now that we're hearing <br /> that one also here in Hilo we could vote on it today. But I think our intention and my intention is <br /> that we will not take a vote on 5 today, the one initiated by the Council, but we'll take the <br /> Commission's vote on the both of them when we return for another Kona hearing. Is that <br /> something that we just administratively can do, Mr. Torigoe, or is that a proper way to handle <br /> this? <br /> 2 <br /> <br />