2021-07-15 Leeward Exh C (Amend USE 05-001)

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VITOUSEK: Okay, so with no second, that motion dies. Is there another motion that can be made? Commissioner DeFranco. DEFRANCO: I move that we defer, and that we wait and see if they can do a little more investigation on the placement because long term the community benefits. YATES: I second. VITOUSEK: Thank you. Discussion? Commissioner Van Pernis. VAN PERNIS: The application is to defer the pedestrian access wherever it may be. It sounds like a deferral would be to go against the recommendation and, instead, by a specific date hopefully, find out whether the road, or the pedestrian access, should go on one side or the other of Kapi`olam. So I still think we should vote up or down on the recommendation, not the deferral. VITOUSEK: Hear you, I, I believe that the purpose of adding pedestrian safety improvements is not necessarily for the school itself but to help protect the community against increased vehicular traffic from the school, the vehicular traffic generated by the addition of the middle school and by the addition of the gymnasium. Both of those things will cause additional vehicular traffic in the neighborhood, which would necessitate pedestrian safety improvements. I don't want to get in the way of a small nonprofit school in accomplishing their objectives and trying to get a gym in place; I think that's what something every school should have. But if we can analyze whether there is a way to accomplish both needs at the same time, I think we should pursue that. I think we can help the school save money by aligning the pedestrian safety improvements in the area that's more appropriate. We are in a stage now where we can do that. And if we go back to Department of Public Works and it doesn't work out, and we give the school, you know, a month or two to try to get that information that we need, then at that point we can come back and make the decision on whether they can move forward without these improvements for the gymnasium. And that way I think no one is worse for the wear. I think they've got time; they've got a couple of months to do that before they run out of funding. Commissioner Armbruster. ARMBRUSTER: Are we allowed to put a timeline on the deferral, like can we say we'll reassess this in a month or in two months or something so it's not an open-ended situation and they are stuck that way? VITOUSEK: Absolutely, yep. Is there a timeframe that the applicant would like us to put on the deferral? MOOERS: I mean, obviously, the sooner the better. I'd just like some clarification. I guess I'm not quite sure, you know, what the deferral is going to accomplish; Pubic 16 EXHIBIT C