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a <br /> WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII <br /> HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br /> NOVEMBER 10, 2010 <br /> A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR'S AMENDMENT TO <br /> CHAPTER 25 RELATING TO USE PERMITS AND SCHOOLS was called to order at <br /> 11:49 a.m. in the County of Hawaii Councilroom , County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, <br /> Hawaii, with Chairman Rell Woodward presiding. <br /> COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Rell Woodward, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Zendo Kern, <br /> and Wallace Ishibashi. <br /> STAFF PRESENT: Gerald Takase (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd <br /> (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and <br /> Maija Cottle (Staff Planner). <br /> And 5 people from the public in attendance. <br /> ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Stephen Ono <br /> INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR <br /> Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Article 2 and Article 5 of the Hawaii County Code, <br /> 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), relating to Use Permits and Schools. <br /> WOODWARD: The next item on the agenda is No. 6. Initiator is Planning Director, <br /> Amendment to Chapter 25, Article 2 and Article 5 of the Hawaii County Code relating to Use <br /> Permits and Schools. Mr. Arai, are you going to do this one? <br /> ARAI: Yes. The proposed bill that's before you is to amend the Zoning Code in order to allow <br /> the landowners and the applicants the option of applying for a use permit to establish a school in <br /> the Industrial -zoned district and in the Resort-zoned district. The Zoning Code currently <br /> prohibits schools within, as an outright permitted use within certain Industrial -zoned districts and <br /> the Resort-zoned district. And it also prohibits even consideration of a Use Permit application to <br /> allow schools within those zoned districts. So this particular attempt here is simply to provide <br /> those opportunities. Because as explained in the background report there are schools that could <br /> be considered very reasonable within either the Resort- or the Industrial -zoned districts. And we <br /> feel that we should at least provide for those opportunities. <br /> On page 2 of your background report, our apologies but we did misspeak. In the second <br /> paragraph which starts off, "Some of these proposals on lands zoned for resort and industrial <br /> uses," if you look further down in the middle of the paragraph there's a sentence that starts off <br /> "A vocational school that teaches welding is not permitted in the Industrial -zoned district." That <br /> is not entirely correct. We discovered that vocational schools are permitted within the Limited <br /> 1 <br />