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VITOUSEK: Thank you. <br /> KAY: You're welcome. <br /> UNGER: Thank you. <br /> KAY: Thank you. <br /> UNGER: Would the applicant come forward, please? <br /> KERN: Good morning, Mr. Chair. <br /> UNGER: Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the <br /> Planning Commission? <br /> KERN: Yes. <br /> UNGER: Please state your name and area of residence. ' <br /> KERN: Good morning, Mr. Chair. I'm Zendo,Kern, planning consultant. I live in the Hilo area. <br /> Next to me is Dan Kenknight. He resides there on the property." He's representing the applicant. <br /> UNGER: Oh, okay, okay. Have,you read and reviewed the recommendation from the Planning <br /> Department, and do you agree with the recommendations? <br /> KERN: We've reviewed the background report and recommendations, and we agree with most <br /> of them and I''d like to have discussion about a couple of the other ones. <br /> UNGER: Great, okay. <br /> KERN: So, I'll just get it—'sorry, first of all, good morning, Mr. Chair, good morning,Members <br /> of the Leeward Planning Commission, thank you for your service, Mr. Planning Director, <br /> Corporation Counsel and the wonderful staff of the Planning Department. Thank you for the <br /> presentation. I think they went over everything very well. <br /> This is a, it's an interesting lot because it's a spaghetti lot, and that's a, so spaghetti lot is the <br /> ones that are narrow and very,"very long. This lot is about 150 feet wide and extremely long, <br /> which create about ten and a half acres, which makes it challenging at best. So the concept here <br /> was to be able to basically split it into the two parcels after obviously we came in with a little bit <br /> more aggressive zoning because we believed that the Waimea area does need smaller parcels so <br /> can actuallyhave a, live and do agriculture on their property and do it at a more <br /> people g p P Y <br /> affordable price point. So that was the concept,but it was a little bit, you know, obviously didn't <br /> quite fit there at this time. So with the existing Agricultural-5a zoning right around it does seem <br /> to be a very logical approach to doing that. And in this case we are looking to splitting it into <br /> two parcels, which will still allow it to be used for agriculture, certainly not extensive agriculture <br /> at that; so actually with the, you know, greenhouses and strawberries and whatnot there, there is <br /> 9 • <br /> DRAFT <br />