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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII
<br /> TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPT
<br /> AUGUST 19, 2021
<br /> Public testimony regarding discussion and recommendation on Planning Department
<br /> procedures for processing time extension requests was called to order at 9:42 a.m. via live
<br /> stream online meeting, with Chairman Michael Vitousek presiding.
<br /> COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Michael Vitousek, Shani Armbruster, Barbara DeFranco,
<br /> Clement"CJ" Kanuha III, and Faith"Faye" Yates
<br /> EX-OFFICIO MEMBER PRESENT: Robyn Matsumoto (Department of Public Works,
<br /> Engineering Division)
<br /> ALSO IN ATTENDANCE: Sinclair Salas-Ferguson, Esq. (Counsel for Department of Public
<br /> Works), Dalilah Schlueter, Esq. (Counsel for the Commission), Jean Campbell, Esq. (Counsel
<br /> for the Planning Department), Zendo Kern (Planning Director), Jeffrey Darrow (Deputy
<br /> Planning Director), Christian Kay (Planner), Tracie-Lee Camero (Planner), and Noriko Sauer
<br /> (Leeward Planning Commission Secretary)
<br /> Discussion and recommendation on Planning Department procedures for processing
<br /> requests for time extensions on permit and rezone ordinance amendments heard by the
<br /> Planning Commission.
<br /> VITOUSEK: We'll move on to number 2, Elizabeth Dunn. The discussion on the time
<br /> extension process.
<br /> DUNN: Yes, thank you. So, again, I've said I'm kind of a, you know, citizen planner. I got, I
<br /> started to look at the Planning Commission agendas a number of months ago and happened to
<br /> see something, I think in December, about a project in town on Alii Is it Kahakai Drive?—and
<br /> it just kind of piqued my interest and curiosity as to why there had been so many, you know,
<br /> extensions of, of a project. There is a project near us, I'm sorry I shouldn't say that,property
<br /> near us that got a planning approval about 30 years ago, also has water commitments, you know,
<br /> it was a rezoning, so it, I'm familiar with, you know, sort of a beginning, start, middle and end to
<br /> a project, or there is a timeline that a project should at least reasonably start to proceed. So I'm
<br /> just kind of wondering what the thought process is for time extensions and rezonings, if there is,
<br /> you know, further discussion that the commission is going to take on, on how they want to
<br /> proceed with that.
<br /> Additionally, we, I live in a neighborhood where we anticipate a rezoning, and we do have some
<br /> concerns about that project for, for multiple reasons. I think one of the key things is we, we have
<br /> some local water pressure issues; we are wondering where water may come from. I've been here
<br /> long enough to know that there is an issue with, I think, sewer capacity and wastewater treatment
<br /> capacity, and that properties when they are sold, if they are on septic or cesspool, they are
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