2020-06-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND REZ 09-098)

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CARR SMITH: We're not seeing your slides right now. KAY: Oh, sorry, my apologies. Let's do this again. Give me one second. Okay, can you see that now? CARR SMITH: Yes. KAY: All right. So again, here is the subject parcel outlined in blue. Here's the Kona Country Club golf course here, mauka of the subject property, and then we've got Keauhou Bay here on the left-hand side, with the hotel and the Keauhou Resort area. So this is kind of at the intersection of Alii Drive, Alii Highway, and the bypass. YATES: Oh, okay. It just seems so large, yet so small. Thank you. CARR SMITH: Any other questions of staff? No? Okay. Thank you, Christian, appreciate it. Let's move on to the applicant. Sid, can you hear me? FUKE: Yes, I can as soon as I unmute myself. CARR SMITH: All right, no problem. Please raise your right hand. And do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Planning Commission? FUKE: I so affirm. CARR SMITH: Thank you. Please state your name and where you reside. FUKE: Good morning, Madam Chair, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. My residence is in Hilo, Hawaii. I'm a planning consultant assisting the landowner applicant with this time extension application. CARR SMITH: Thank you. Do you—you received the background and recommendation reports from staff? FUKE: Yes, we received it. I've had a chance to discuss it with the applicant, and he is in agreement with the, the proposed recommendation for the time extension. I will, however, like to just kind of note that at that point in time when the application was filed for the extension, which was at the end of last year, it was like a pre-COVID time. But, you know, leading up to the filing for the application, lot of the soft work was already done, you know, in terms of basic design, the archaeological clearances, so on and so forth. And so, notwithstanding the COVID situation, and assuming that the economy really was kind of ramping up, you know, at that point in time, then I think the five-year window would have been more than adequate because you've done, you know, a lot of the preliminary work needed to, to go with the design. My only concern right now is that no one really knows what the long-term economic impact of the COVID is going to have on let alone this, you know, the Island of Hawaii, let alone the whole county, the whole world. So, while we appreciate the generosity of the staff in providing a 5 EXHIBIT B