2011-01-13 Leeward Exh A - PARKER RANCH

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COTTLE: It’s been a couple months; so it’s good to refresh everyone’s memories. All right. The subject property is located in Waimea. It’s outlined on the slide in black. Yalahoa Highway running in a north-south direction into town, Farm Road. The new in-town connector road runs just north of the property. And the subject property is zoned Agricultural 40 acres that’s shown in the blue. Most of the properties surrounding it are also agriculturally zoned except for to the north there’s some Single-Family Residential zoning, which is shown in yellow. The General Plan designation for the property is mostly Low Density Urban with a little bit of Important Agricultural Land to the south, which is shown in light green. And the Community Development Plan Waimea Conceptual Map calls for the preservation of the historic race track complex at the subject property that’s shown here. The applicant has, as Ms. Song had mentioned, they have revised their request. So I’ll just go ahead and read their current request. It’s to allow light industrial and commercial office uses within the existing structures. And the permit area would now be reduced to 7.757 acres of land. And they would like to allow office and related uses for businesses that may not necessarily be agricultural related in the existing 8,000-square foot headquarters office building, as well as allowing light industrial and general commercial uses such as vehicle and equipment repair and maintenance shops and general warehousing and storage in anexisting 9,000 square-foot warehouse and 15,000-square foot maintenance building. So what they’ve done is they have withdrawn their request to use the rodeo arena area for special events. This is a site plan that the applicant submitted, and you can see the area, the permit area, is outlined in red. This is the location of the existing maintenance shop and warehouse building, and then further to the south here is the existing headquarters building, which they would like to use for office uses. The current driveway is located in this location here, and we did do a modified condition, or a revised condition, for a driveway connection off of the new connector road in this area here. This is an aerial photo of the property; you can see their race track, the existing driveway off of well as the headquarters office up here. And this is a photo of the headquarters office building. And this is a view looking at the warehouse here and the maintenance shop building in the back, and then turning around to the west you see the riding stables area here. And this is a view of the entrance of the driveway on the highway looking west. And a view looking north, you can see the driveway coming off to the right here. The Department is recommending that the Planning Commission approve Special Permit 108 as recommended by the Planning Director. And we do have a revised recommendation that we submitted to you – it’s on light yellow paper. We’ll get the lights up in just a minute here – thanks, Jeff. And I’d just like to go over that for a few minutes, if I could. The applicant also submitted a th letter dated January 6 that you should have in your folders, and the letter goes into some discussion of the agreement between the applicant and the intervenor, and also addresses their request to withdraw the special event component. And also attached to that letter is an email from Sandy Song with the executed third party agreement between Parker Ranch and the intervenor. So in light of that, the Planning Department revised our recommendation, and there are revisions throughout the text mainly pulling out the special event component and any reference to that. And then if I could just direct your attention to the conditions. We did remove Conditions 5 though 9 on the goldenrod recommendation; those were all related to special events, so we didn’t feel that they were 3 EXHIBIT A