2019-08-15 Leeward Exh A (SLU 19-052 & SMA 19-072)

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The applicant is requesting a State Land Use District Boundary Amendment from Agricultural to Urban for about eight acres of land. They are also requesting a Special management Area Use Permit to develop a 50-unit residential community, consisting of 26 affordable units and 24 market-rate units within two apartment buildings, as well as a community room, fitness center, swimming pool, tennis court,playground and pavilion, landscaping and on-site parking, and on-site parking for public use stalls for access to the Magic Sands, or La`aloa Beach Park. The applicant has also filed a concurrent application with the Office of Housing and Community Development for what's called a 201H affordable housing project, and this requires more than 50 percent of the units to be affordable in exchange for exemptions from zoning, subdivision, and building standards. The applicant is requesting an exemption from the Zoning Code to change the zoning of the property from Agricultural-5 acres to Multi-Family Residential-5,000 square feet, which would allow for the 50-unit development. They are also requesting an exemption from the Zoning Code to allow a commercial parking lot within the RM-5 zoning district, and to allow relief from Department of Public Works standards for providing curb, gutter and sidewalk since the project will instead utilize walking trails. The 201H application and exemptions must be approved by the County Council via a resolution. So the 201H application is not something that the Planning Commission has authority to decide. The subject of this hearing today is a State Land Use District Boundary Amendment and a Special Management Area Use Permit application. This is the applicant's site plan. You have Alii Drive right here in the bottom left corner, and access would be taken off of Alii Drive. This area here towards the makai portion of the property is the proposed public access parking stalls, and then this crosshatch area that runs through the middle of the property is a FEMA floodway. So you can see the driveway access up to the affordable housing and market-rate housing will be through the floodway, and then you have the two market-rate housing buildings with parking behind it, and then further mauka the affordable housing units with the parking behind that. You can also see a tennis court, a swimming pool, and then really lightly you see four sites here, these are historic sites and the round rings around those sites are the preservation buffers —so, one, two,three, and then there is one in the floodway. The Planning Director will not be providing a recommendation at this time because he is concerned that the 150-stall parking lot was not represented clearly in the application as a parking lot that the public will have to pay a fee to use. Another concern is that the parking lot was not evaluated in the traffic study, the storm drainage study, or the archaeological preservation plan. The Director has been working over the last two weeks with the applicant, and has requested that they submit a revised application with this information, which the Director will then send to certain agencies for comment, which is our normal process. The Director also recommends a new notice be sent out to surrounding property owners, indicating the revised application. So, as I mentioned, the applicant and the Department have been working together over the past two weeks to get that revised information into our Department so that we can evaluate the resubmitted applications. And then as you know, you also received a petition for standing from the West Hawaii Surfing Association, Keawe K.K.K. Alapai and Paula McMichael. 3 EXHIBIT A