2022-10-20 Leeward Exh B (Item 2 Sunshine Holdings PL-REZ-2022-000032)

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compliance with Chapter 10 of the Hawaii County Code, Erosion and Sedimentation Control, deletion of Condition J, Archaeological Survey, and amendment to Condition M, Fair Share Requirements, of Ordinance No. 98 91, which reclassified 21.353 acres of land from Agricultural 20-acres to Agricultural 5-acre zoned district. The subject property is located at 73-1735 Kaloko Drive, approximately 720 feet southeast of its intersection with Kaloko Loa Place, Kaloko Mauka Subdivision, Kaloko, North Kona, Hawaii, TMK: (3) 7-3-025: Parcel 012. At this time, we'll proceed with public testimony for the agenda item—do we do public testimony now or announce the recusal first? WONG: Commissioner Kanuha— VITOUSEK: Okay, Commissioner Kanuha has an announcement. KANUHA: I'd like to recuse myself from this agenda item due to my property being on Kaloko Loa, so. VITOUSEK: Mahalo. With Commissioner Kanuha's recusal, we have lost quorum for the meeting, so we, for this agenda item, so we will not be able to discuss it, but we can still take public testimony at this time. Mr. Van Pernis, if you'd like to step forward. Would you please raise your hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on the matter before the Planning Commission? VAN PERNIS: I do. VITOUSEK: Mahalo. And for the record please state your name and the town you live in and proceed with your testimony. VAN PERNIS: Mark Van Pernis. I live in Kona in Makalei Estates near the subject property. VITOUSEK: Mahalo. Please proceed. VAN PERNIS: Pending before you is application of Sunshine Development [Holdings] for further delay of their predecessor's proposed subdivision and the insulting elimination, reduction, of conditions that benefit the public that were determined 25 years ago, although the elimination or reduction may just be a throwaway to get the time extension. They've already had 25 years of extensions. The proposed development uses the same roads as many other subdivisions that have been approved thereabout. During that 25 years of extension there was increase of population of approximately 200,000, or 200 percent, excuse me, and there has been the school kids congregate at the intersection of Kaloko and Mamalahoa for the school buses, there have been many B and Bs and others that use Mamalahoa, including the 25-year extension of the bypass road for Mamalahoa. There is a serious—and I say serious, I experience it—traffic jam on Mamalahoa near this area all the way down into Kailua-Kona. Twenty-five years, now they want another five years. The application should be rejected—how long can you keep the zoning—and a new application made so current needs can be considered. A traffic study is needed and perhaps an access road off Kaloko or exiting lane for left turns. Let's see what the 2 EXHIBIT B