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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />APRIL 7, 2006 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application filed by <br />FIRST SAMOAN <br />was called to order at 10:40 a.m. in the <br />CONGREGATION CHURCH (SPP 06-000022) <br />County Building, Councilroom - Room 201, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman C. <br />Kimo Alameda presiding. <br />PRESENT:C. Kimo AlamedaABSENT & EXCUSED: Allen Salavea <br />Fred Galdones <br />Bill Graham <br />AndrewIwashita <br />Jeffrey McCall <br />Rene€ Siracusa <br />Rodney Watanabe <br />Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br />Christopher J. Yuen, Planning Director <br />Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager <br />Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />And approximately 28 people from the public in attendance. <br />APPLICANT: FIRST SAMOAN CONGREGATION CHURCH (SPP 06-000022) <br />Special Permit to allow the establishment of a church and related improvements on 3 acres of <br />land situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is located along the <br />thth <br />northeast side of 38 Avenue, approximately 740 feet from the 38 Avenue  Laniuma Street <br />intersection, Orchidland Estates Subdivision, Keaau, Puna, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 1-6-11:119. <br />ALAMEDA:Fellow Commissioners, before us today is Agenda Item No. 3. The <br />applicant is the First Samoan Congregation Church (SPP 06-000022). It€s a Special Permit to <br />allow the establishment of a church and related improvements on 3 acres of land situated within <br />the State Land Use Agricultural District. I€ll let staff go into detail with this application, but <br />please note that there is a request for standing which I€d like to address right after staff makes <br />theirpresentationsothatwecankindofsetthetoneforhowthisproceedingwillgo. <br />Mr. Darrow? <br />DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I can direct the Commissioners€ attention to <br />thelocationmap.TheareaofthisapplicationiswithinthePunadistrictofHawaii,more <br />specifically within Orchidland Estates Subdivision, which is mainly identified in blue. The blue <br />representszoningAgricultural3acres,Countyzoning.ThelightergreenrepresentsAgricultural <br />1 acre. The line moving in a north-south direction identified in this area is the Keaau-Pahoa <br />Road.Accesstothisparticularpropertythattheapplicationislocatedonwouldbeproposed <br />thth <br />from Pohaku Place onto 35 Avenue, onto Laniuma Street, and then onto 38 Avenue. All the <br />1EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />