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All right, Christian and Maija are going to give us a presentation, and hopefully, it's, we've, we've
<br /> seen it a couple of times already, so if you can give us un update,please, and let us know about
<br /> anything new that has transpired.
<br /> KAY: Sure, so I'm going to share my screen. This is basically just a status update. Can everybody
<br /> see the screen and hear me? Okay, great.
<br /> Again, not going to go into the particulars of the application, again, since we've heard this a couple
<br /> of times, I just want to give you an update on what has taken place since we last met in June. We
<br /> scheduled a meeting with the applicants and Spring Capital on July 6h. That meeting was postponed
<br /> till July 16'h at the request of the applicant due to scheduling conflicts. The reason I'm mentioning
<br /> this is I just wanted to let it be known that we were working on finding a good time for everybody to
<br /> be involved very quickly after the last meeting, so we weren't dragging our feet; so even though we
<br /> were about a month since the hearing that we were finally able to meet, it was all done in good faith.
<br /> Prior to the meeting, Spring pardon me the applicant asked us to essentially provide a kind of
<br /> what it is that we would need to get to a favorable recommendation. And, basically, we provided a
<br /> couple of things. So the purpose of that in our mind was to develop the Kahului-Puapua`a
<br /> Neighborhood TOD to closely conform to the Goals, Policies, Actions and Guidelines of the Kona
<br /> CDP while not requiring Project District zoning, which in our unfavorable recommendation, we
<br /> offered as an alternative to the amendments to these two zoning designations.
<br /> In addition, we made a few requests. The first was to rezone the Suffolk property, and that's TMK
<br /> 7-5-017:019, that's the one that's currently a Multiple-Family Residential, to Neighborhood
<br /> Commercial to match the Puaa project—pardon me the Puaa property. The purpose for that was
<br /> to, in order to kind of develop this TOD as the CDP envisions, making the zoning the same would
<br /> allow for a greater density and expand the permitted uses, and that's going to help better facilitate
<br /> the development of that, again, mixed-use, walkable Neighborhood TOD, as we, as the CDP
<br /> envisions. The next was we requested that the applicant develop a master plan in close conformance
<br /> with the requirements outlined in the CDP to be the basis for new conditions of approval. Again,
<br /> this is a requirement of the CDP to have a TOD developed under a master plan, and because there
<br /> were still a lot of questions and a lot of requested amendments, we didn't really feel comfortable
<br /> moving forward without really kind of a well-thought-out comprehensive master plan upon which
<br /> conditions could be placed in order to move forward the development of a TOD. And then the third,
<br /> we requested that the draft master plan be developed prior to this body acting on the amendments
<br /> requests, or acting on whatever came out of that, in order to have it be vettedoh, and also to have it
<br /> be vetted by the Kona CDP Design Center to ensure conformance with the intent of the Kona CDP
<br /> as is laid out by the CDP. Ultimately, this is again what we would feel comfortable with moving
<br /> forward to ensure that we could get to where we needed to be in developing this project as a whole;
<br /> we were not being very rigid and saying, okay, you've got to go Project District, which is 50 acres,
<br /> which would trigger a State Land Use Boundary Amendment, and things like that. Again, hearing
<br /> from the Commission saying take the time you need to try and get to a positive, or favorable,
<br /> recommendation, working with the applicants.
<br /> During that meeting the Department and the applicants were able to agree to some of the
<br /> requirements, for instance, the applicant agreed to rezoning the Suffolk property as long as it could
<br /> be done quickly, as just a letter to the Department requesting the change and not having to go
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