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The applicant is requesting to remove Condition No. 7
<br /> DEFRANCO: Excuse me, Alex, will you put this closer to your mouth?
<br /> ROY: Oh, okay. The applicant is requesting to remove Condition No. 7 of the public parking
<br /> requirement of the SMA Use Permit No. 51, which was approved in 1978. Condition No. 7, for
<br /> your reference, states that the public parking, that parking stalls on the makai side of the proposed
<br /> building shall be clearly identified as being for public use. The applicant is still committed to
<br /> providing public parking at this location but is requesting to adequately be allowed to adequately
<br /> manage the use of those 20 public parking stalls located on the subject parcel. A little bit of
<br /> background, the Condition 7 seven was set as a requirement of approval for the SMA to develop a
<br /> commercial property. During that time, 1977-78, there was a lot of questions about parking in
<br /> Kona and for Kona Village, so the intent of the parking requirement was for economic
<br /> development. It is not tied to any resource, cultural or otherwise; the intent was to provide parking
<br /> for people to enjoy Kailua Village, specifically.
<br /> Here is the County zoning. We can see that it's Commercial, Village Commercial, mostly all
<br /> around the project area, with some Residential located mauka. The green is Open zone, and here
<br /> you can see Hulihehe [sic] Palace; this is the palace
<br /> KANUHA: Hulihe`e Palace.
<br /> ROY: Hulihe`e, sorry. State Land Use Urban. LUPAG has this as Resort Node, the subject
<br /> property, and then mauka would be a Medium Density Urban, and then, of course, you see along
<br /> the coast as typical Open for LUPAG.
<br /> Here is an aerial photograph. So, I know there is a lot going on here, so I highlighted the subject
<br /> property in the dashed line and then outlined the parking area in yellow, so you can get an idea of
<br /> roughly where it is within the larger, the larger area.
<br /> Here is another shot from the other direction. Again, there is an apartment building here, all
<br /> commercial development, with some residential but mostly commercial development surrounding
<br /> the area. And you can see, I'd like you to take note of all the parking; there is a lot of space down
<br /> here that's given up to parking. So again, outline of the property and then the outline of the
<br /> specific project area, essentially the parking, 20 parking stalls.
<br /> Here is a site plan that was provided. This is kind of out of the 1978 approval,just showing you a
<br /> basic outline, so this is in line with what I just showed you. Here is the parking, 20 parking stalls,
<br /> so this is kind of the area we are focused on today.
<br /> Here is a photograph from 2017. One exampleI have a few, I just put one example—of some of
<br /> the issues the owner has to go through. Here we can see this, you know, vehicle has no tire, it's
<br /> been lived in, destroyed, and I believe the landowner had to pay hundreds of dollars to get that
<br /> removed as a junk car. But this is one example. And I believe you would have gotten some
<br /> testimony showing you a very recent I believe it was on the 18th, yeah there was some damage
<br /> done to the vehicles, spray painting, things like that. So, as is often, when something is free and
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