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from now the nature of the neighborhood be pretty much the same and then the plans for Big
<br />Island Candies expansion, you know, be exponentially increased and, you know, the two areas
<br />where the landscaping and the parking lot is proposed, boom, we get two new two-story
<br />buildings and the area, that plat, becomes very heavily industrialized right in the middle of a,
<br />kind of an older neighborhood. So how would you respond to that concern?
<br />TSUKAZAKI:I think its a good issue. I mean I think youve raised a good point
<br />because from my perspective this House Lots area is one of those areas in transition from a land
<br />use policy standpoint and from the Countys own land use long-term growth policies. And I
<br />think what youre pointing out is if there were no residential area there at all, you know, then you
<br />would not expect the kind of impacts to come from the transition to High Density Urban uses.
<br />So I think that, you know, it is definitely a challenge, there are definitely issues. And I believe
<br />when zoning applications such as this one comes before you and the County Council, there are
<br />going to be issues regarding those kinds of impacts that need to be dealt with, and, because,
<br />again,itsachangingareaandyouhaveresidentialusesthatareaffectedormaybeaffected.I
<br />dont think theres any easy answers, but the plans promote Urban use gradually in this area.
<br />There are ways to mitigate what those impacts will be. I dont know if theres a foolproof way to
<br />avoid them all, but quite frankly I think a local government will just have to use its best efforts to
<br />deal with them as time goes on. So, and just an example, in this case, you know, right, weve
<br />had a neighbor raise concerns; and I think thats just indicative of how the community,
<br />surrounding neighborhood will react as this transition takes place over the next, you know, 10 to
<br />20 years.
<br />ALAMEDA:Director Yuen has a response.
<br />YUEN:Yeah, can I, let me give you my idea of Waiakea House Lots because it
<br />comes up over and over again; and this is what is proposed verbally in the General Plan and in
<br />the interim amendments and the map, and partially in the map amendments.
<br />Weve had a lot of rezoning applications in the Waiakea House Lots area. Some of them, this
<br />area, there was an area in here that was already Industrial and Piilani Street was Commercial;
<br />and so you had a number of rezonings previously. And the 2005 General Plan made a big
<br />Medium Density area in the House Lots area and then made an Industrial area along Laukapu
<br />Street in this block here. The major map change is that were proposing to take the Industrial out
<br />of the Laukapu Street block and make that Medium Density. I think it was a mistake to change
<br />that to Industrial. When I drive down, its a street of, there are just houses on the street. And to
<br />take a Residential area and have Light Industrial businesses come in, I dont think its that
<br />compatible. And so thats the map proposal on that.
<br />As far as what happens in the, you know, Medium Density in the General Plan is a big, there are
<br />a lot of different things you can do in Medium Density. You can have, potentially Commercial
<br />zoning, you can have a 7-Eleven, you can have businesses that dont look any different from the
<br />house thats there, like the mortgage company rezoning that we saw a couple of months ago, you
<br />can have apartments or townhouses. All of these things are really different. So, and we dont
<br />have a fine tuning in the General Plan thats better than those categories. And, hopefully, you
<br />know, if we had a Hilo Community Development Plan were able to do that.
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