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treatment plans were always conditions of approval, and so you couldn't proceed with any land
<br /> altering activity until those plans were completed and approved. And I'll refer to the Planning
<br /> Department staff, but I believe that's a true statement.
<br /> YEE: Yes, so,this project came to my attention when I first started three years ago. And I think
<br /> that's the correct description like many of these plans won't be done until subdivision. So, when
<br /> the nine-lot project came in front of us, we had deep conversations around what we were asking
<br /> for, because with your concerns like, Mike, we wanted to know a little bit more. Based on that,
<br /> we actually ended up in a Board of Appeals case that right prior to having the hearing, we were
<br /> able to kind of come to an agreement about what we needed more of. And from that,they
<br /> withdrew the project and came back with this six-lot. And so, I will say there was what was
<br /> practiced prior to me arriving a few years ago and what developers were used to doing and what
<br /> the process was. I was trying to shift that a little bit to say that there were certain projects we
<br /> needed to know a little bit more of. And being, as Scott Church said earlier, trying to be
<br /> practical, trying to be realistic, trying to work with development, to find how do we nudge in the
<br /> right places to get better projects. And so, as we've seen, I feel as if they've come back with
<br /> more, and a lot of our concerns have been addressed by some of the decisions they've made on
<br /> how they want to go about the development. Again, I think everybody understands your
<br /> concern, Mike. I wish there was maybe more practice or more ability to, on certain projects, to
<br /> really go that way, but I also have to balance being challenge for decisions when that hasn't been
<br /> the general practice of the Planning Department to do certain things. And so I would say in
<br /> general this process with this applicant is above average. I appreciate the responsiveness they've
<br /> shown and being flexible with the new director that had strong focus around ensuring that we,
<br /> you know, preserve our resources. Is it perfect? I wouldn't say it's ever perfect, but I think the
<br /> communication that we've had and what they've represented, we felt comfortable enough to
<br /> push forward today.
<br /> LINGER: Just a quick comment, too, it sounds like to a certain extent this may be more of an
<br /> issue at the statutory level than where we are right now. But that's just a comment. Thank you
<br /> all, thank you all.
<br /> [Inaudible short dialogue with Ms. Hall] Okay, so, we are going to open the floor up now for
<br /> motions, and how we are going to approach is we are looking at three separate motions.
<br /> HALL: So we'll just do one at a time.
<br /> LINGER: Yeah, we'll do one at atime, vote, second one, vote, third one, vote. So we are
<br /> specific to REZ 19-000237, Change of Zone, on this project. And so I do need a motion from
<br /> the Commissioners.
<br /> CARR SMITH: I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Council
<br /> on the application for Change of Zone, Docket No. REZ 19-000237, based on the Planning
<br /> Director's recommendation, which shall be adopted.
<br /> KEALOHA: I'll second.
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