2019-06-20 Leeward Exh A (SPP 17-195)

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UNGER: At this time I'd like to call the applicants forward. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? FUKE: I do. COOK: I do. UNGER: Please state your name and area of residence. FUKE: Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I'm a planning consultant assisting the applicant, Living Stones Church. My business address is 100 Pauahi Street in Hilo, Hawaii. COOK: Good morning. My name is Brian Cook. I'm representing Living Stones Church. I live here in Kailua-Kona. UNGER: Great, thank you. Before you begin your presentation, have you read and do you agree with the proposed conditions or the findings of the Planning Department, as well as their proposed language to the addition? FUKE: Yes, we've shared the staff's background report and then the proposed recommendation, as well as the amendment, with Mr. Brian Cook and the applicant themselves, and they both are in concurrence with that, especially on the amended condition, and we appreciate the Director's consideration of that. There is just one technical correction to the background report. I think the background report noted that the sewer line, you know, within Ho`omama Street has not been dedicated to the County, but, and at that time when the Department of Environmental Management made the comment back in 2017, the lines and the roadway system were not dedicated, but at this point in time they have been dedicated by the developer. Having said that, I'd like to just kind of—the staff's background report, you know, as always, is very comprehensive and on point—I'd like to just provide general background as far as the nature of the application and how we arrived it where we are today. Living Stones Church currently has like two operations: One along Alii Drive and then the other one is in the Pines commercial area. So over the last few years they've been looking for a particular site to kind of consolidate their operations and find a place that was a little bit more central, you know, to all of its membership. They've conferred with Mr. Cook over here on my right, and over time they said Mr. Cook and his business partner, they owned the properties, you know, which the access is going to go through, as well as the subject property, and they've made their properties available at significant cost to the church, and so the church said, you know, let's consider something along these lines. And so, the application was filed in October of 2017. We were scheduled for a hearing in December of 2017; however, in November of that year SHPD came in with a comment and recommended that although there was an approved archeological inventory survey, SHPD 5 EXHIBIT A