PL-REZ-2022-000017 E. DUNN TESTIMONY 11.14.2022

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COMMENTS ON ITEM #2 REZONING AT 77-6632 A KUAKINI HIGHWAY, PL REZ-2022-000017 Aloha and Good Morning to the Chair and Members of the Leeward Planning Commission, staff, and audience members. =ceived a mailed notice about the oroposed rezonina at 77-6632 A Kuakini Highway, and am submitting the following comments about PL-REZ-2022-000017, a proposal to rezone a 5.29 parcel from A-5a (Agricultural, five acres per lot) to FA-1 a (Family Agricultural, one acre per lot), TMK 7-7-008:062. SUPPORT STAFF RECOMMENDATION I support the staff recommendation to restrict vehicular access to/from Kuakini. This state highway is too important of a vehicular roadway to allow access to or from this highly traveled roadway from any lot that may be created with this rezoning and related subdivision. 2. It's equally important that this project is required to connect to the sewer system, and not having septic systems for these potential lots. ISSUES OF CONCERN 3. 1'd ask that the existing easement that runs through the existing parcel be significantly reduced. If the Planning Department will not allow access to and from Kuakini Highway, as it is a state highway, there is no reason to retain the full width and shape of this easement. Reduction of the easement will also prevent a future applicant/developer to pursue using this easement for access to undeveloped land to the west/makai of the site. I'd ask that the Planning Department research Subdivision 5535, which is credited with the creation of this easement, and coordinate the reduction of the easement only for access to the proposed three lots from Pomaika'i Street upon the recordation of the Final Map (if this rezoning is approved by the County Council). Each resulting parcel would have that square footage of the former easement area added to the square footage of their lot. 4. No updated Cultural Survey, and related reports, have been prepared for this proposal. The proposal relies on an Archeological Report report from 1987, and takes into account a larger area of 32 acres and three parcels that were surveyed for potential archeological artifacts. Figure 3 (see Attachment 1) of this report illustrates that the majority of potential sites are on the parcels to the south and west of the subject property. Sites 27 - 29 in this report have been highlighted (by the applicant/proponent and for what purpose?); these sites are not near the proposed access point from Pomaika'i Street. The worksheet for the Court Order, Page 88 of the Planning Department's Background Report, (see Attachment 2) shows that an "approximate location of potential archeological 1 of 6