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2. Review and discussion of prospective County zoning changes for privately owned parcels located within the Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment area. This agenda item is for information and discussion purposes only. The Agency took this item up at 2:28 p.m. with approximately 9 members of the public in attendance. GADDIS: If there’s no further discussion of House Bill 1219, then we’ll go ahead and move onto our next agency item which is review and discussion of prospective County zoning changes for some of these privately owned parcels located within the redevelopment area, and by redevelopment area we mean not necessarily right on that peninsula itself. It encompasses a little more and Planning will illustrate that for us. Go ahead. ROY: Okay, so I bring before you a couple instances of private properties in the redevelopment area that have expressed interest in applying for rezoning. The first is the Ice House right there in the center, and then the Hilo Iron Works building facility here down in the left hand corner. So this is the Hilo Iron Works complex. You can see it’s a number of buildings, and this is the Hilo Iron Works original building, and there’s a number of commercial activities, uses here. So it’s a, already an ongoing kind of commercial industrial type area. The entire, there’s like five or six or maybe more parcels that are all kind of grouped together here that make up this kind of complex. So the Hilo Iron Works complex the current zoning is open and of course we know the existing uses include commercial buildings, some industrial mixed use. The owner did inquire about a possible rezone from open to industrial. Now the LUPAG, the General Plan does designate this area as industrial and however, and the BDHRA plan, the 12/12 plan identifies this as commercial industrial. So I’ll go through that real quick. The second one is the Ice House. This is right in the midst of the Waiākea Peninsula; see the building here, parking lot and the store is on this side. So the current zoning also is open and, but does not, that zoning does not permit the increase to the commercial activities. Right now the Ice House is relegated to selling ice cream and is unable to do anything else other than, really, that. The LUPAG designates, so the General Plan designates it as open, so it keeps it in the open zoning district. However, the BDHRA plan, 12/12, identifies this area as commercial industrial. So this is the current zoning of the area, right now, and we can see both sites are zoned open. And the LUPAG designation keeps the Ice House open, but as you can see, moves the Hilo Iron Works into the industrial, along with some of these other areas here, and here you got some medium density urban, and of course the resort zoning. This is a remnant for Suisan, I believe, something like that. No? Inaudible conversation held. ROY: I’m not sure, it a, like I said it’s a remnant. The LUPAG kind of has a— CANNON-EGER: That’s Isles, but Suisan is that there and they are a privately held piece also. ROY: Yeah, yeah. I’m, today I brought up the only private properties that I’m discussing were ones that have actively come to the Planning Department looking for some kind of rezoning help. Page 5 of 13 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency April 24, 2019 Minutes