08-08-2022 Applicant's Concurrence to Defer Hearing

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LPC Item#1 Kula Nei, LLC (PL-PUD-2022-000002) 8/8/2022 Applicant's Concurrence to Defer Hearing Email Response from Robert Lee Mori, Ashley From: Robert Lee <robertrleegroup@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 11:06 AM To: Kay, Christian Cc: Nohealani Baptista; Darrow, Jeff,Jackson, Maija Subject: Re: Additional information needed to consider an approval recommendation for the Kula Nei PUD Application (PL-PUD-2022-000002) Aloha kakahiaka! Christian, after reading your email I agree that we should wait until all your points are answered before moving forward. I would like to have a conversation with you tomorrow at mid morning 10:00/10:30 if your available with my daughter Nohea. Mahalo, Robert Ewane Lee Jr. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 5, 2022, at 5:22 PM, Kay, Christian <Christian.Kay@hawaiicounty.gov>wrote: Aloha Mr. Lee, As we have been discussing, I am in the process of drafting the background and recommendation reports for the next Leeward Planning Commission hearing on August 18. Through the review&analysis process against the criteria for approving a PUD permit, I am finding that the application is lacking sufficient information necessary to justify approval of several of the individual exceptions from the code that you have requested to facilitate the PUD development. Please note, the application was also reviewed and vetted by the Administrative Permits Division, who are responsible for applying the subdivision code and previously processed PUD applications. Based on the preceding, and after discussing the issues with Deputy Director Darrow(who oversees the department while Director Kern is on vacation)we cannot recommend approval for several of the requested exemptions requested in the PUD permit at this time. Our Zoning Code compels us to go to hearing within 90 days of acceptance of a complete application, which is the next Leeward Planning Commission meeting on August 18, 2022, unless a deferral is agreed to by the applicant. If you like to still move forward with that hearing date, we will do so, but it will be with a denial recommendation. Alternatively, if you are willing to defer the hearing to provide us with the additional information needed, we will be happy to work with you to get to hearing as soon as possible. If you choose the latter option, we need the following additional information to continue to process the application toward an approval recommendation: 1. General Information needed. • The Master Plan Concept(Figure 1) indicates that the shaded area consists of, "+40 open space not to be mass graded or clear cut but used to protect native Hawaiian flora, provide for agricultural purposes and maintain local rural character consistent with open space preservation objectives of the Kona CDP."Please provide more detail about the proposed management, maintenance, and uses within the proposed 40%open space/agricultural 1