2019-04-04 Hearing Transcript - Admin Matters Item 1

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want a permit, who they're constantly consulting with in trying to help them. So, then you get to this point of when do we have time to make rule changes, code changes, and that falls on the back burner of stuff, and we accomplished some things in the last two years. I will say in very short order here, when time extension was really bubbling up, Jeff and his staff have cranked this out in reviewing it. I said at Leeward it is not coincidence that time extensions are coming up in Leeward Planning, Windward, the Council, with all the community groups, and so, the winds have changed. Peoples' attention are on this. Decades have passed on some projects. They're coming back to us now, and now we're dealing with them, so I think this is just kind of a natural kind of an order of things for us to look at this, so they've, we've received a lot of great comments from Leeward. We had great discussion today. Staff will go back and look at amendments they want to put forward, too. I do want to comment, and I made this comment on Leeward, that there was a lot of testimony in Leeward. The room was packed, and unlike today, although I really appreciate your comments, that's because they were very, some very high profile cases, permits in Leeward that time extensions are coming up on. And, so everybody's attention was on the Planning Department over why are you going to give them a time extension, and I had to remind folks that we process a lot of administrative time extensions that the Planning Commissions don't see that are very appropriate for us to do. A lot of folks were like every time you shouldn't grant any time extensions. They should all come back automatically, and they should resubmit everything in an application, and understand that there are a lot of smaller, regular folks like you who put in applications that's you know, in one case recently, the mother died. It's taken years for the family to sort through the estate to get to where they wanted and they needed an extension. You know, not all these applications will go to you, but that's just an example of people trying to deal with these very high -profiled cases not understanding that the Planning Department does deal with a huge number of just regular folks putting in applications trying to get permits through us. And, so I want us to be careful that we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater because we're trying to address some very large -scaled projects that, yes, have some rub. So, I just wanted to give that context to everybody today. Thank you. CLARKSON: Any further discussion on this matter? [None.] The discussion ended at 11:40 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Sarah Y. Hata-Finley, Secretary Windward Planning Commission EXHIBIT E 14