2022-03-17 Leeward Exh A (Item 1 Cravalho REZ 21-000248)

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review process, which is where should the Change of Zone be approved, it does allow the possibility for a range of uses and facilities that there's this process called Plan Approval Review and we'd be willing or amenable to a condition that says that anything submitted for plan approval review, that opportunities for review by the action committee can be factored into that process as well. And that would give, again, another opportunity for the action committee to weigh in on any specific changes. So, again, continuing the meeting to a future meeting date would give us that opportunity to explore further with the Planning Department as well. VITOUSEK: Okay, thank you. Deputy Director Darrow. DARROW: Thank you, Chairman Vitousek. I just wanted to, I was going to try to chime in on this earlier, but I didn't get an opportunity so, before we finish, I just wanted to touch on a few areas that we were discussing. Number one, Commissioner Kanuha brought up the fact that this is a very strange zoning for this particular property. Ag-20 on a 7,500 square foot lot in the middle of the urban core of Hawi, with the zoning being State Land Use Urban. So, it's, it's very unusual. I did take a look back at the original zone map that created the parcel created the zoning that was initially done in 1967, and it identifies the zoning of the properties along Haw! Road to the east as commercial, and the ones beyond Hoea Road to the west it identifies as residential. But this particular property does not identify a particular zone. I'm not sure if they just said because it wasn't identified that they just went with Ag-20, but I think that's something that we should at least look at. But regardless of that, the other issues that came up was the consistency of the CDP. The CDP, it's not very specific. There are CDPs that actually have maps of particular areas within the district that show what the community wanted for their future land use pattern. In this particular one they rely on the General Plan Land Use Pattern, but they do make a statement that the development of a commercial core within the towns of Haw! and Kapa`au shall be encouraged. And that's specifically where this is located, within that core of Hawi. And we see that by the commercial zoning that's moving along Hawi, the main Hawi Road. The other thing that comes up, is when we look at commeragriculture, a lot of times the Planning Department relies on several resources to be able to provide us what sort of quality is that agricultural land. In this particular case, we look to the land study bureau that identifies what type of land, that soil is. If it's good soil or poor soil, and we also look at the, what's called the ALISH, the Agricultural Lands in the State of Hawaii. In this particular case, there are areas around the island where because there was existing urban development, they do not identify it in those maps. They just call it out as U, which is identified as existing urban development. In this particular case, this core is identified as U. It's not identified with a soil class, and so I thought I'd bring that up as well that this was part of that urban, existing urban development area and not considered as lands of importance for agriculture. Anyways,just areas that I thought might bring some clarity to what we were discussing. Thank you. 11 EXHIBIT A