2008-01-11 TPDKOHALA LLC - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

WATANABE: Okay. And like you said, whether you build one house, or 50, or whatever -? LIM: That’s correct. WATANABE: That’s -, okay. Thank you. Mr. Graham. GRAHAM: Mr. Lim, just since Commissioner Watanabe brought it up, can you just be clear to us specifically what has been done as far as the housing, the affordable housing requirement? Lim: The housing that was provided was in Kona in what I believe was called the Kalawa View Estates Project. So the developer at that time in 1970, excuse me, in 1998 purchased affordable housing credits from that project, purchased five of them; and that resulted in the February 25, 1998 agreement between the developer of this project and the Office of Housing and Community Development that the affordable housing requirements for the rezoning were satisfied. GRAHAM: And do you have a purchase price on what those five were or anything? LIM: No, I don’t have that information. That was not paid by my client. That was paid by the prior developer but it was built into the sale price for my client. GRAHAM: Thank you. WATANABE: In all fairness to the Director, I think we should offer you an opportunity to rebut before, you know -. You should be able to state your case, yeah? YUEN: Certainly. Well, on the merits of why we’re doing this, that’s the purpose of the supplemental along with the original background and recommendation; and it’s to create a project with a lower density of development to be able to keep more of an open space view along the shore and also for environmental factors as talked about earlier. Just one minute on procedure because I think that’s, I don’t want to spend a heck of a lot of time on it. What I would think is the correct procedure is for the Commission to take a vote on the proposed, Director’s proposed rezoning, and to take a vote on the time extension, very simple. Question of consolidation, the purpose of, as I believe, the purpose of the consolidation was to avoid having to say that this testimony is for the rezoning and this other testimony is for the SMA Permit. It was never possible to actually consolidate these matters in the sense that the decision would be made at the same time. The decision on the rezoning is made by the County Council. The decision on the SMA Permit is made by the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission’s decision on the SMA Permit cannot take effect unless and until the County Council makes a decision on the zoning. So even if the Planning Commission, for example, were inclined to extend the time to allow, on the SMA Permit, to allow the 50 units to be EXHIBIT C 10