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GOERS ENTERPRISES, >L,LC Land Use .li7ternatives May 27, 2008 Mr. Chris Yuen Director Planning Department County of Hawaii 101 Pauahi Street, Suite 3 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 .Post. Office 13os 1101 I<amuela, li'awaii 96743 Phone (808? 880-1455 Fax {80t3~ 8A0-I~1S6 ~nriooers~liaw~iu,rreom 2008 ~1RY ~ fl fl~ ". C?Q „p~;N;'i UI- H/~WAII Re: Bishop Museum -Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden Ordinance No. 79-465 TMK: (3) 8-2-013:002 por. Dear Mr. Yuen: The owners of the subject property are requesting an amendment to Ordinance Number 79-465 that. changed the zoning of the subject pazcel from Agricultural 1-acre (A-la) to Neighborhood Commercial (CN-7.5) effective August 22, 1979. A copy of the ordinance is enclosed for reference. Your Department has determined that when the Bishop Museum obtained the property in 2000, the previous owner had not complied with all of the conditions of Ordinance 465. Condition B required the commercial project for which the rezoning was being sought,'to be built within 5 years, i.e., August 22, 1984. A time extension to May 18, 1998 had been granted by letter of the Planning Department on May 27, 1993, but no subsequent extension had been sought. The Museum is aware of the need to acquire another time extension for Condition "B" and this letter is requesting such. In addition the Museum does not want to subdivide the parcel from the A-1a portion of TMK: 8=2-13:2, as required under Condition "A", as the property is all part of the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden. We would like Condition "A" to be removed. Please find enclosed twenty (20) copies of the signed application sheets, twenty (20) copies of this letter requesting the amendments, with exhibits, a list of neighbors within 500 feet of the subject property and a Real Property Tax Clearance form. I am also enclosing a check in the amount of $500.00 as a processing fee. The Museum plans to develop a visitor education center and parking lot at the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden with assistance from a $1.0 million appropriation from the State of Hawaii. Since the proposed project is using State funds, an Environmental Assessment was prepared for the proposed action and a copy is on file in Planning. Planning Dept. Exhibit