2022-01-06 Windward Exh B (PL-SPP-2021-000005)

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GALIMBA: Could I move to. AU: Please. GALIMBA: Deny this application. Let's see I need to get the actual wording first but hang on I will go find that and if somebody wants to take over the motion with the actual wording that we're supposed to use, please do so. AU: Okay, so Commissioner Galimba motions to deny Special Permit 2021-000005. GALIMBA: Thank you. AU: Applicant John Hewett and Patricia [Patrina] Niu-Hewett. Could I get a second? LIN: I'll second. REPLOGLE: Second. AU: Okay, so, Commissioner Lin had second it. So, now that we have made a motion, now we're up for discussion. I would like to say that I have mixed feelings towards this motion. I feel there is a need for self-storage in that Puna community. I myself have used self-storage facilities in the past and it's very useful, but I do also feel that we don't want to set a precedent moving forward. But I did take into strong consideration, I am taking into strong consideration of what Mr. Pipan said about a Special Use permit. So, fellow Commissioners we're here to approve this Special Use permit, and that is the definition of a Special Use permit is it's special. It's a case-by-case situation and the Planning Department has to take their stance based off of facts, laws, rules, and regulations, but for us here as a Commission we have to decide as to what's fair and what's right and what's appropriate. I do feel I'm leaning toward I do feel that this is an appropriate development for the property. So, that's my two cents, so if anybody else wants to chime in please do so. Commissioner Raffipiy, I see your mic off, you can go ahead. RAFFIPIY: Yeah, Mr. Chair, I'm just like you. I have a really mixed feeling with the dual purpose or dual use, one for storage and one for mail service. The storage, I'm like you I really don't want to set of precedence. But on the mail service. I mean that is really needed in that area. The mail service is really needed in that area. I'm not going to say that storage is not needed, because it is needed, but again, based on the Charter and the Zoning Code and all that. The facts are there. It's not allowed in this kind of area that kind of facility, but I don't think the mail services is going to be denied in that area, the mail service can really help the community there. So, I'm like you Dean, Mr. Chair. I have really mixed feeling with this one, because I for one kind of like part of it, and the other one is just if you stand with the facts with the law and all that it's not allowed, but on the other, it can really help the community. AU: Thank you, thank you Commissioner Raffipiy. I would like to just disclose that I was on the Commission back in 2012 when the original Special Permit application was approved for Mr. Hegarty, and I just want to state that I can be unbiased and make an impartial decision and make 13 EXHIBIT B