2022-07-07 Windward Exh E (Item 4 Yamada & Sons PL-SPP-2022-000012)

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Agriculture mixed in other designations in the area include Industrial Urban Expansion, Low Density, and High density Urban. Here's the applicant's site plan. Again, for reference we've got Ho`olaulima Road running generally north south in this side of the image. The applicant's current quarry operation is generally in this area and the proposed additional 37.882 acres is indicated in this t-shape here. Here's an aerial photo of the project site and surrounding areas, sorry for the lack of good image quality here. But again, it's just showing the project site with the existing Yamada quarry located here. Former quarry sites in this area that have since been closed, the Old County Landfill area shown here and then again, the Pana`ewa farm lots shown here to the west. Here's a view of the subject property looking north on the left-hand side Ho`olaulima Road here with the subject property on the left-hand side and a view of the applicant's existing quarry site from the top of the berm looking down into the already quarried area. Generally, the location of the new quarry site would be an extension of this on the right-hand side. Here's some other views of Ho`olaulima Street [Road] looking west, this is moving towards the Old Hilo Dump area, and this is looking east towards the drag strip area with the subject property being on the left-hand side. So, the Planning Director is recommending that the Special Permit be approved by the Planning Commission and forwarded to the State Land Use Commission (LUC) for final determination. As this is a Special Permit for a land area over fifteen (15) acres, the State Land Use Commission has final authority, decision-making power on this Special Permit. It's a bit unique in that we, if the Commission so chooses if you vote to approve it and forward it on for final decision that would go up to LUC. If you vote to deny it kind of ends here. So,just to give you kind of an idea procedurally of what you're looking at. So, this Special Permit application was actually scheduled to be heard at our last Planning Commission meeting in June. There was a last-minute request to defer the application because there was a series of letters from the Keaukaha Pana`ewa Farmers Association (KPFA) as well as the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) requesting about seventeen (17) different condition changes and additions. Instead of going through all that the applicant requested a deferral in order to take some time to meet with the Farmers Association as well as DHHL to try and come up with some negotiated agreements on new or amended conditions to help address some of the Farmer's Association and Hawaiian Home Lands Department concerns. And so, the next series of slides will be the outcome of those negotiations you should have received very recently a letter from Daryn Arai who is representing Yamada and Sons with the outcome of those negotiations as well as some of the justification and you all would have also received two (2) letters of support from the Farmers Association as well as Department of Hawaiian Home Lands addressing those same kind of proposed condition changes. So, I'll go over them briefly here. So, there is a proposed condition amendment to Condition No.4 and this has to do with the hours of operation. There was some concern that the hours of operation that the current land license allowed which was from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. would be too extensive and would cause kind of some noise impacts. So, part of the negotiation here is instead of quarrying activities kind of 3 EXHIBIT E