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CARR SMITH: Okay. Would you like to comment on the recommendations, and go ahead and
<br /> give us your presentation?
<br /> KERN: Yes, please. Thank you very much. Again, good morning, Madam Chair, Members of
<br /> the Leeward Planning Commission, all the Planning Department staff, Corporation Counsel, and
<br /> anybody else viewing this. So, what we have here is an interesting, challenging project. What
<br /> we've heard is a presentation from the Planning Department that talked about some of the basic
<br /> land use components of it. I know there's some concerns. What we haven't heard today, and
<br /> what we haven't talked about, is the story about how we got here. I'm going to talk a little bit on
<br /> my side about this, and then I'll have Mr. Julkowski share his story. I'm not going to go into the
<br /> personal depths of his story, so there might be a little bit of overlap, but I'll try to limit that to the
<br /> best of our ability.
<br /> I got a call over a year ago, probably a year and a half ago, yeah, over a year and a half ago by a
<br /> person and at that point in time that was employed by the County and said I have a 201 H, I have
<br /> a client that has a 201H application that involves affordable housing and a hardware store and
<br /> it's just about to, you know, basically it need to button it up and it's good to go, simple, easy
<br /> project. So, I said, you know, sure, I'm happy to assist and help with that. And so, I did, I got
<br /> involved, and the first thing I did from there after a talk with Mr. Julkowski and got my head
<br /> around the project was like okay, this seems to make sense to me. We went and talked, I went
<br /> and talked with the Planning Department about it, and at that point in time the Planning
<br /> Department was not supporting the 201H application as Housing was, and generally speaking,
<br /> when there's a conflict with Planning and Housing, it's, it gets complicated. So, I said, "well,
<br /> why don't we look at it from just a straight change of zone perspective and take the 201H
<br /> application out of there?" So that conversation went on. What we looked for was a LUPAG
<br /> Map determination; so that's the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map, which you can see is
<br /> about,just on the makai border of the property as a MD use. So that would be ideally what
<br /> you'd want is a Medium Density Urban in that area. And in one of the first meetings it looked
<br /> like that was going to be favorable to get that LUPAG Map determination. And a few months
<br /> later that changed, and so it was no longer supported. So, I was like, okay, it is what it is, we
<br /> need to continue to move forward. And so, we have been moving forward with the original
<br /> intention of the affordable housing and the, the commercial lots, as well as a hardware store.
<br /> So there is some, a few things to point out when we talk about a, say, for example, the TIAR,
<br /> which I think would be something that we'd want to have as a condition, if this were to be
<br /> approved. But when we have, once things kind of went further south with the Planning
<br /> Department, and it was basically stated that this will not be supported, it became very
<br /> challenging for the applicant to spend a lot more additional money on these, these items,
<br /> especially when you hear the rest of the story. So, since then I've been trying to address this and,
<br /> and work it out. I do think it's important that—so what was called out was residential housing,
<br /> which actually committed to, it's going to be committed to doing affordable housing within the
<br /> affordable housing guidelines. So, it's not regular homes; it's to be the affordable, 80 to 100
<br /> percent AMI.
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