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

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So, the Deputy Planning Director is recommending a denial of the Special Permit for the following reasons. The proposed request is inconsistent with the Zoning Code. Self-storage facilities are considered light industrial uses and only permitted in Industrial zoning designations, General Industrial, Limited Industrial and Industrial Commercial Mix Use. To keep such uses, separate from Residential and other incompatible uses and to ensure nonindustrial areas will not be exposed to unsafe or unhealthy environments. Second, the proposed request is inconsistent with the General Plan. The LUPAG designations specifically does not allow for industrial uses and only allows for commercial uses that serve the residential and agricultural uses in the area and community and public facilities provided there's appropriate zoning. The proposed request is also inconsistent with the Puna Community Development Plan. In response to the proliferation of light industrial uses scattered throughout population centers of Hawaiian Paradise Park, Orchid Land, `Ainaloa and upper Puna. The Puna CDP was amended in 2011 to direct new light industrial uses to 6 designated areas in Puna. The subject parcel is not located in one of these areas. The Puna CDP also encourages that commercial and public facility growth within designated village and town centers, however, as we showed before the subject property is located over a mile away from the nearest village center and that's the `Ainaloa Neighborhood Village Center. The proposed use light industrial and commercial use is not appropriate in this area, this will fail to establish a proper land use pattern. And finally, while the proposed uses considered unusual in that it's not agricultural, it's not a reasonable use as it would permanently commit the use of the property to land industrial and commercial land use. For these reasons, the Deputy Director is recommending denial of the Special Permit. With that I'd be happy to turn the time back over to the Chair and answer questions at the appropriate time. AU: Thank you, Mr. Kay. Fellow Commissioners do you have any questions for Mr. Kay? Commissioner Clarkson? CLARKSON: Yes, I'm not familiar with the Longhouse facility. What kind of a facility, what is the use opposite on the other side of the street from the applicant's property? KAY: Sure, there is a public park,playground area, basketball courts, there is a Community Center facility, there is a volunteer fire house, walking paths and other passive recreational use. There's also a mailbox area for the public for rural mail delivery. Yeah, that's the uses that are currently on that side. CLARKSON: And how old is that? I mean that must be quite old and it doesn't conform to the Puna CDP. KAY: Yeah. CLARKSON: Can you expand on why the Village Center when the CDP was created was not put in the area of the Longhouse, it would seem natural to me. KAY: Sure. I don't know exactly when it was built, I can say that there was a Special Permit approved on this property for a commercial use a convenience store, as well as a certified 3 EXHIBIT B