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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br /> COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
<br /> HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br /> MARCH 15, 2012
<br /> A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT
<br /> TO CHAPTER 25, RELATING TO CREMATORIUMS, FUNERAL HOMES, FUNERAL
<br /> SERVICES AND MORTUARIES was called to order at 10:00 a.m. in the West Hawaii Civic
<br /> Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona,
<br /> Hawai`i, with Chair Geraldine Giffin presiding.
<br /> COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Geraldine Giffin, Lani Bowman, Richard Nelson and
<br /> Thomas Whittemore
<br /> ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Brandi Beaudet, Thomas Hickcox and Wayne Iokepa
<br /> ALSO PRESENT: Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) and Noriko Sauer
<br /> (Commission Secretary)
<br /> And no one from the public in attendance.
<br /> PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED
<br /> Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as
<br /> amended), relating to crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services and mortuaries.
<br /> GIFFIN: Moving right along,we are now on Agenda Item No. 4, also initiated by the Planning
<br /> Director. It is an amendment to Chapter 25, as we've been doing, on the Zoning Code, Articles 2
<br /> and 4,relating to zoning district regulations for crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and
<br /> mortuaries. Jeff?
<br /> DARROW: Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, Members of the Planning Commission.
<br /> COMMISSIONERS: Good morning.
<br /> DARROW: Our last item on the agenda is an amendment to Chapter 25, relating to regulations for
<br /> crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and mortuaries. Just recently the County Council
<br /> had initiated Bill 90, which had done a thorough job of changing the Zoning Code to allow
<br /> crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and mortuaries to be combined together and be
<br /> consistent in the Code instead of being separated. And so during the process, the Planning
<br /> Department, as well as the Planning Commission, was asked to comment on that bill. And the
<br /> Planning Commission sent up three different changes, or requests, to make that the Planning
<br /> Department and the Planning Commission found that would help with the consistency of that Bill
<br /> 90. Well, during the process when that went up, apparently there was some confusion as to how to
<br /> correctly process this. So what the County Council has directed the Planning Department to do is to
<br /> allow Bill 90 to go through, be passed, and then for the Planning Department to initiate, or the
<br /> Planning Director, to initiate a bill with those three changes and send it up after. And so that's what
<br /> we are doing. So again, this is simple housekeeping. And the three changes are listed on the
<br /> Background and Recommendation, which include the section on Use Permits, so that it identifies
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<br /> Comm. 672
<br /> Bill 232
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