2009-10-21 KCDP Minutes Final - Laserfiche WebLink

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looking at calibration we have highways, boulevards, avenues, commercial streets, drives, streets, roads. Need to know what is appropriate where. Parks are handled differently. VDG referred parks to as civic space and also mandates that at least 5% of every neighborhood is developed as usable, flexible, civic space so that could be a green, square, or plaza. Things make them different are size, open or natural and determine which ones are appropriate. Terminology for building disposition: edge yard (setbacks all the way around), side yard (zero lot on one side or duplex), rear yard (townhouse or anything attached where only open space is in the back) or court yard (open space is in the middle). The thing you'll notice most like historic villages are private frontages. What happens between building and lot line in the front are not usually mandated in development standards. Process is that the first 2 days will mostly focus on getting the VDG to fit Kona and last 4 days designing Honokohau TOD. Just to clarify that the areas that are being master planned during this process are not the entire TOD but a portion of whose landowners agreed to participate in this innovative process. In United States statutory law, you are not allowed to plan somebody else's land. Mr. McLean has thrown his parcels in the pot as well as DHHL, the parcels adjacent to Civic Center site. These lands will be the heart or the most intense areas of the TOD. The circles are symbols to determine actual limitations for Honokohau TOD. Rule of thumb of identifying a TOD is to have a half-mile walk from actual transit stop in any direction. Since this particular TOD it’s also designated as Regional Center Development (RCD), because of the location of the Civic Center (which will be a regional draw) then the area defining this TOD is quite linear along mid-level road and half-mile out south of parkway and up to a mile toward north and ½ mile mauka, makai. Then determine limitations based on topography, barrier (mid-level road itself with current configuration), and property lines. The job of PlaceMakers is to be very clear about benefits of the developing the land utilizing the TOD model. Ken Melrose added the third component of your engagement is to be helping the department figure out how to implement this process and Design Center. Suzan Henderson agreed and stated absolutely and all day Friday morning the team will be meeting with the Planning Department, Howard Blackson will be presenting how to design under the Code and Suzan will be presenting application process and review plans, analyze, and afternoon meeting with Council people, Director of Public Works, Fire Marshall, Chief of Police, whole list of people involved with the approval process. Marni Herkes commented on the whole goal is setting the plan out and have developer follow the plan – a process on how to move over the barriers. Suzan Henderson stated there are a number of really good techniques that were written into the KCDP. KCDP set up a Design Center that would help the developers walk through the process and then secondly a part of the model code is called Consolidated Review Committee (CRC) to sign off on a plan. Ken Melrose requested clarification regarding the explanation of the Honokohau TOD and pointed out that the TOD will potentially be formed to look oblong more than circular. Susan Henderson agreed and stated that the topography of the land impacts how TOD will look. Ken Melrose also noted that the Honokohau TOD sits in the middle of “3 pearls on the string”, with the string being the Mid-Level Road, pretty close between Hina Lani, Palani and Makalapua Streets are fairly close. If the TOD is shaped to be too oblong, questions in