2023-04-06 Windward Exh D (Item#3 Ke'aloha Lani PL-SPP-2022-000031)

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HATA: No, we don't have any testifiers on Zoom. LIN: Okay, thank you. All right, I will then move on to the staff presentation. Go ahead Christian. KAY: Thank you,just real quick Janice. Can you confirm that you see the slide show? HATA: Yes, we're good on the Zoom end. Thank you. KAY: Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair Lin, members of the Windward Planning Commission. Good morning. As the Chair stated, this is an amendment to Special Permit No. 842. Here is a location map. The subject properties are located in the Puna District of Hawaii Island. More specifically in the Kea`au area, makai of Highway 11. The applicant is requesting an amendment to Condition No. 4 of Special Permit No. 842 for a 5-year time extension to construct and occupy on one lot, and a 10-year time extension to construct and occupy the remaining two lots. Special Permit No. 842 was approved in 1993 to allow the establishment of a brewery, water and soft drink bottling facility and related improvements on 14.5 acres of land(including the three subject parcels which total 7.829 acres) situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The permit was later amended to also allow a distillery use. The requested amendment would allow the applicant until October 18, 2028, to complete construction and obtain a certificate of occupancy on one of the lots and until October 18, 2033, to develop and obtain certificate of occupancy on the remaining two lots. The stated reasons for the request is since acquiring Parcels 24 and 27 in 2021, the applicants have diligently worked securing the necessary permits to develop a water bottling facility on Parcel 24 with the intent of moving its existing water bottling facility from Hilo closer to the source of the water proximate to the project site. The applicant anticipates construction to be complete within 18- 24 months, which will not meet the October 2023 deadline to construct and occupy on Parcel 24, thus requiring the time extension. Additionally, while the applicant and Bender Consulting, who is the owner of Parcel 28 are considering options to construct beverage-related facilities for example a brewery or distillery as permitted by the Special Permit, neither owner has any firm plans or specific development timetable to complete the project. Thus, they are requesting the flexibility of a 10-year time extension to develop and occupy on the remaining two lots. Here is the zoning map for the subject properties and surrounding area. Again, for reference you've got Highway 11 (Volcano Road) running generally on the left side of the slide here. The subject properties are outlined in red here. The subject properties are zoned Family Agricultural-2 acres as indicated by the teal color. Surrounding zoning includes Industrial zoning, General Industrial- 20,000 square feet here indicated in gray which is the site of a solar array and was a subject of an amendment to that zoning district last year for those of you who were on the Commission at that point. Other zoning in the area is Agricultural-5 acres. This was part of the original 14.5 acres which is the Ag-5 zoning here and this is the location of the Hawaiian Springs watering bottling facility. Other zoning in the area across the highway is Commercial Industrial Mixed Use. 2 EXHIBIT D