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One of the ideas or requests, yeah, suggestions, which basically, in our opinion, has been
<br />occurring anyway—which was, keep the zoning in place as it is the appropriate zoning for the
<br />location and then we just focus on refreshing conditions. And, we can discuss that, but for
<br />example, if an ordinance, if a request for a change of zone comes in, and we do our review, is it
<br />consistent with the General Plan? Is it consistent with the CDP? Is it consistent with the Zoning
<br />Code? Is it appropriate for this area? If it gets approved, then it has met that criteria. It makes
<br />no sense in the future for non-compliance to consider reverting it back to something that may not
<br />be consistent or compliant with that area at that time.
<br />A good example a lot of times is going from Agricultural to an Urban zoning district in an area
<br />that was clearly an urban core like in the middle of Hilo or in the middle of Kona. The long-
<br />range plan for that area is Urban. It's either Residential or Commercial or whatever it may be.
<br />But, it makes no sense to revert it back to Agriculture after it's already been brought to this
<br />particular zoning. So, the idea is they still want to, the suggestions were they still want to be able
<br />to have a time deadline, you know, on conditions. And, again, that's a suggestion, one
<br />suggestion. There are others. The Windward Planning Commission suggested no timelines.
<br />Zoning is appropriate. Whenever they build it, they build it, right? So, those are some of the
<br />suggestions. So, we'll talk about some of the deadlines or the deadline. So, one of them again,
<br />which was brought up by the Windward Planning Commission, having no timeline or deadlines.
<br />The zoning is appropriate. When the build it, they build it, regardless of how the economy is
<br />doing or regardless of any other issues.
<br />This was brought up in the Leeward Planning Commission meeting that there are a number—let
<br />me just finish this slide real quick, sorry about that. There are a number of properties around the
<br />island zoned already. They've been zoned from the beginning when zoning was created in [the]
<br />1960's. So, they have no conditions placed on them, right? They were just boop, you're zoned.
<br />So, whenever they do what they do is whenever they do what they do. There's no timeline. So,
<br />the thought was, hey, if it's good for them, it should be good for others, right? Commissioner
<br />Replogle?
<br />REPLOGLE: My question related to what you were saying. I wasn't quite following you earlier
<br />saying when zoning is changed, it's done. How does timeline come into that? Wouldn't time
<br />line be more related to conditions and things you want to do in that new zoning?
<br />DARROW: Correct. So, I mean, what's happened in the past is it is, there's been too much of a
<br />focus on project specific on zoning. Now, that's appropriate for permits, but when it comes to
<br />zoning, it allows for a large amount of permitted uses, and we shouldn't be focusing on a specific
<br />project because that's, it was almost like becoming conditional zoning, like Use Permits, right?
<br />Like you have to do this project here because you said you were going to do this. So, you have
<br />this much time to do it, and if you don't do it, you gotta come back to us, and if somebody else
<br />wants to do something different, they gotta come back to us. But, the problem with that, again,
<br />is that the zoning allows for all kinds of things to happen, so what the focus should be is looking
<br />at the zoning that's being allowed and assessing it as—what we've been doing is assessing it at
<br />the highest possible impacts that can happen for those uses in that zoning district. So, even
<br />though the person may say oh, I'm just planning on doing a simple little office building with
<br />three units, well a gas station can go there or a McDonald's can go there. So, we look at it from
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