2021-08-19 Leeward Exh C (Amend USE 05-001)

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So some updates since the last July Leeward Planning Commission hearing is that Planning Department staff conducted a site inspection on July 28, 2021; the applicant met with the Planning Department and the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division, via, over Zoom on August 6, 2021, to discuss the commission's comments and request for the feasibility of constructing the road improvements along the north side of Kapi`olani Road; the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division, stated in their August 9, 2021, memo that it is not common practice to require an applicant to pay for improvements on a property that is across from their property and restated that they have no objection to deferring the roadway improvements to be completed prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the middle school. Therefore, at this time the planning director is not recommending any changes to his June 7, 2021, recommendation. These are some of the site photos these are two of them actually the photo on the top right is the photo that the commission saw at its last hearing. The photo is located along Kapi`olani Road; you are looking across the street from the school's entrance, and you can see it's a two-lane road with some grass shoulders. The photo on the bottom left was taken at my site inspection late last month and is taken directly from Parker School's entrance looking east as well along Kapi`olani Road. This again is the site photo on the top right that the commission saw at its last hearing, which is taken along Kapi`olani Road looking towards the park area at the Lindsey Road and Kapi`olani Road intersection, and you can see it's a two-lane road with some grass shoulders and the hedges that are of concern to some people. The photo on the bottom left was taken on my site visit and is further down Kapi`olani Road at the entrance of Parker School and was taken, again,just in late July. This is a new site photo that I'm presenting to you today that is looking in the direction of Kapi`olani Road from its intersection with Lindsey Road. As mentioned in the planning directors background report, Kapi`olani Road is a county-owned and maintained roadway with approximately 18-to 20-foot pavement in good condition with approximately two-to four- foot-wide grass shoulders, all in all it's within a 40-foot right-of-way. As you can see, there are hedges located on the right side of the slide. The hedges do continue along the county right-of-way sporadically along Kapi`olani Road up until you reach the Parker School property. And on the left-hand side, you can see the clear grasp shoulders that also continue along Kapi`olani Road all the way up until the Parker School property as well. At this time the director is not recommending any changes to the June 7, 2021, recommendation. Based on the preceding the planning director recommends that the request for an amendment to condition number 11 to Use Permit number 05-01 be approved by the Planning Commission to defer the roadway improvements until the middle school can be built. We do have the Department of Public Works and the applicant available, as well as myself and the Planning Department to answer any questions that the commissioners may have. And with that, I can turn the floor back to the Chair. 3 EXHIBIT C