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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JANUARY 8, 2010 CONNIE & MARCEL HERNANDEZ A regularly advertised hearing on the application of (SPP 09-89) was called to order at 9:05 a.m. in the County of Hawaii, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Rell Woodward presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Rell Woodward, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Andrew Iwashita, Zendo Kern, and Wallace Ishibashi. STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Planning Director), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner). And 23 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: CONNIE & MARCEL HERNANDEZ (SPP 09-89) Special Permit to allow the establishment of a naturopathic retreat center, which would include overnight guests, seminars, individual consultations, massage therapy, acupuncture, and educational tours on 3.111 acres of land situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is located along the north side of Highway 240 (47-4628 Honokaa – Waipio Road), adjacent to and west of Kapulena Subdivision, Unit I, Haukoi, Hamakua, Hawaii, TMK: 4-7-1:13. WOODWARD: We’ll start with Item No. 1, Applicant: Connie and Marcel Hernandez. Jeff? DARROW: If I can direct your attention to the presentation on the wall, our first applicant is Connie and Marcel Hernandez. This is a continued hearing from our November Windward Planning Commission hearing. The application is in the Hamakua District of Hawaii. It’s difficult to see the location of the application but it’s in this general area. I just wanted to give an idea overall of the particular zoning in this area. If you’ll look at the colors on the map, the darker blue is our Agricultural 40-acre zoning.And then you have some yellow and light green zoning which is Residential and Agricultural 1-acre. And, again, you have some yellow and a little bit of purple over by Kukuihaele. And this is actual Residential and a piece of Resort area over there. And then again this particular area is Agriculture. This is a closer view of the subject property.This road that’s running through the center of the map is Waipio-Honokaa Road. It’s a State highway. The property is identified with the blue outline. This is an aerial photo that kind of gives you an idea of what’s surrounding the particular request area. You’ll see that there’s quite a number of residential units in this particular area, as well as a lot of different Open and vacant Agricultural land on the outsides. 1 EXHIBIT A