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GADDIS: Sorry, state your name sir, if you don’t mind real quick. BOCKRATH: Beg your pardon? GADDIS: State your name because it gets recorded in the minutes, thanks. BOCKRATH: Jon Bockrath, owner 21 Banyan Drive, Ali‘i Ice. GADDIS: Thank you. BOCKRATH: We recently received an occupancy permit to open up a small soda fountain. Soda fountain, but limited in what we can sell to strictly frozen products that we produce, technically, by Planning. We’d like to expand a little bit to generate more revenue and improve our property. GADDIS: Did we want to get any feedback from, or does Planning want to provide any feedback as far as just general perspective on those two parcels, currently the Iron Works and currently the Ice House as far as both of those, since they’re both wanting to head in the same zoning designation. Any perspective on what the general concerns would be for one or the other for pursuing industrial at this point? KANUHA: Duane Kanuha, Deputy Planning Director. The biggest issue is the General Plan, the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map because whatever zoning request comes in on a parcel by parcel basis has to be consistent with the General Plan. So the parcels that are General Plan open, and County zoned open, they’re going to be difficult. And this, you know, if there’s some way to amend the General Plan in an expeditious manner, which there isn’t. The only thing I can hold out for you is that we’re kind of getting to the last stages of a comprehensive General Plan amendment process, so there may be an opportunity there to provide some input in terms of what the, what you’d like to see happen for Banyan Drive. GADDIS: Okay. KANUHA: And I think the other component that plays here is, I believe some of these properties were allowed to remain through the old Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency master plan under 35 year use restriction. And so once that ran out, then I think that’s where the difficulty becomes because all of a sudden now they’re nonconforming and if, if they were allowed to remain as a nonconforming use, normally what happens is a nonconforming use or structure can stay there until it either falls down by itself or if someone wants to come in and redo it. If that were the case, and there wasn’t a time limit on it, then these facilities could still remain, be in use for what they were used for, until one of those two things happen. But unfortunately because of this 35 year timeframe, that puts some of these facilities, I think the Ice House in particular, in a real jam because now they’re inconsistent with zoning, they’re inconsistent with the General Plan, but they’re allowed as a nonconforming use to the HRA plan. Page 10 of 13 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency April 24, 2019 Minutes