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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAW AI'I HEARING TRANSCRIPT NOVEMBER 20, 2009 A regularly advertised hearing on the COUNTY COUNCIL INITIATED AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 25 (ZONING CODE) was called to order at 2:48 p.m. in the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Hotel, Ali'i III Room, 69-275 Waikoloa Drive, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding. PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe Brandi Beaudet Lani Bowman Geraldine Giffin Frederic Housel Wayne Iokepa Brandon Gonzalez, Deputy Corporation Counsel Margaret Masunaga, Deputy Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner Maija Cottle, Staff Planner And four people from the public in attendance INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL Amendment to Chapter 25, Article 2, Division 4, Hawai'i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) relating to concurrency standards for parks and recreational facilities and firefighting facilities in change of zone actions. WATANABE: Let's move on to Agenda Item No.3. The initiator is the County Council. Once again, this is an amendment to Chapter 25, Article 2, Division 4, Hawai'i County Code 1983. Boy, you're real popular today, Maija. COTTLE: Yeah, working hard here. Okay, this is an amendment by the County Council, related to concurrency standards. And the Planning Commission reviewed a similar amendment, I think, about a year ago. And the current amendment is setting concurrency conditions for parks and recreation facilities, as well as firefighting facilities, on change of zone requests. The Planning Director is recommending that an unfavorable recommendation be sent to the County Council for this, because she feels that they would have an adverse affect on small landowners who want to rezone their property, that some of the concurrency standards would be very difficult for them to meet. And so she is recommending an unfavorable recommendation to County Council. Are there any questions? I