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

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recommended that the application be kind of suspended until a burial treatment plan was prepared and approved. And so, the applicant then asked that the item be set aside, tabled, you know, and during interim the burial treatment plan was prepared, was reviewed and approved by the Hawaii Island Burial Council and also SHPD in March of 2019. During the course of the initial submittal, notices were sent to surrounding property owners, and, understandably, there were some comments raised by neighbors, as well as the Pualani Community Association. So, during that time I think it gave, you know, between November of 2017 to where we are, it gave the applicant the opportunity to try to come up with some ways to address or modify any of the concerns that were raised by neighbors and the community, and some of these concerns have been addressed as conditions of approval. One of them relates, you know, specifically to the traffic issue, as it was originally proposed to be, all of the traffic was going to be routed on Ho`omama Street to Pualani Subdivision. And, to answer your question, Ms. Carr Smith, there is a no-permitted access on the State highway and that's the reason why there cannot be any direct access; that would be ideal, however. So, there was that concern, so as a result what Mr. Cook and his people, they went back to the drawing board and said you know what, we will have dual accesses to the property, one coming in from Hualalai Road and the other one from Ho`omama Street, and to kind of like, because there is a lot of their membership, the church membership, coming from the mauka Kona and use Hualalai, and that would kind of eliminate the need to make the roundabout circle into the facility. The other one dealt with the issue of construction traffic, and that's totally understandable. So what Mr. Cook did was to negotiate with the adjoining property owner to the north side, I mean fronting Hualalai Road, so the condition that's reflected in the staff s condition, reflects that all construction activity be taken from that road and not going through Ho`omama Street. The dual access into the, to service the project once it's operational, both coming in from Hualalai and Ho`omama Street are also reflected as conditions of approval. There was some concerns about noise, and so what Mr. Cook and his people said, you know, we will abide by whatever the residential noise standards are during the day and also during the night hours. They would restrict night time activities to no more than ten o'clock, and all the while adhering to the Department of Health's noise control standards for residential activity. Finally, on the issue of the unpaved or the paved area, I think that, you know, we all know that, well, maybe may not know, but the parking code is, sometimes it can be, it is designed to address the worst case in the worst case situation. In this particular situation rules say that, well, that's the code, the code requires as such, because the code requires one stall for every 45 square feet of land, I mean not land but of your building area. And so that, as staff noted, kind of like translates to approximately 600. But the way that they have their programs and the church services scheduled, like on Sunday they would have three services, so, you know, you don't have like at any point in time the need necessarily of like 600 vehicles. There may be on very rare situations, you are going to need to have an overflow parking, and that's the reason why we are asking for some consideration in having those areas possibly unpaved. But then again, it's subject to the Planning Director's review and approval through the Plan Approval, and the applicant is willing to accept that. So, with that, Mr. Chairman, are there any questions of Mr. Cook or myself? 6 EXHIBIT A