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should also be consistent with previous Special Permits which, according to what I’ve, I can
<br />recall, have all been five years and not scaled in terms of time down to two years. And so that’s
<br />my, I know we want to, you know, curtail this type of activity, but, yeah, there’s some precedent
<br />there. Mr. Director?
<br />ALAMEDA:Mr. Director, your thoughts on the possibility to be consistent with other
<br />potential -?
<br />YUEN:Let me just discuss for a minute the reason for my recommending or
<br />saying that I would be okay with a one-year timeframe where there are other Special Permits that
<br />have a five-year timeframe to move. I always believed that you have to make decisions in a
<br />general framework because these things come up over and over again. So looking at
<br />Commercial and Light Industrial Special Permits, that is, Commercial or Light Industrial
<br />businesses in the State Land Use Agricultural District, basically, I do take a negative view. You
<br />have a purpose for zoning. Say a contractor’s baseyard or a trucking company baseyard is a
<br />Light Industrial use. Normally it’s located in a Light Industrial area such as the Kanoelehua
<br />Industrial area, Shipman Business Park. Yet, you can feasibly, many times, locate it in an
<br />Agricultural area. You can put it there. Very often it is more convenient and less expensive to
<br />put it on an Agricultural lot because you have a lot, you have a great deal of infrastructure to
<br />develop to have a Light Industrial lot. So if you take a view that, as a matter of normality, you
<br />can have a contractor’s baseyard, a trucking company baseyard, on an Agricultural lot, then that
<br />is where they will eventually gravitate. It is going to be less expensive to buy one than to buy,
<br />or, than to lease a lot in Hilo or in the Keaau Business Park; and that is what you will get over
<br />time. And you will also probably not have people develop lots in industrial parks because you’re
<br />taking away a great deal of the market; and then you’ll gradually have a, you start with a
<br />trucking company baseyard, and then you have the contractor’s baseyard, and then you have the
<br />building equipment storage area and, you know, you’ll gradually have more and more businesses
<br />that are not going to be located in an Industrial area.
<br />So there are exceptions, now. So we have taken, you know, in my five years as a Director,
<br />we’ve taken a generally negative attitude toward businesses like this. There are exceptions. One
<br />exception is a really small-scale business. We’ve done things like the person who cuts hair;
<br />we’ve done, you know, we’ve done the certified kitchen, you know, very small scale businesses.
<br />Another one, and this gets to the five years, is that we have areas on the island where you clearly
<br />need a location for these Light Industrial-type businesses that have nothing zoned or nothing
<br />available in the vicinity. Between, in the Paradise Park area is one example, Waimea is another
<br />example, and in those areas we have long-term prospects for Industrial areas. They’re
<br />designated Industrial areas in the General Plan but there’s nothing, there’s nothing physically
<br />available. I mean, even if you went out and, you know, you were trying to buy something or
<br />lease something, there isn’t anything for you. So you have businesses that serve the immediate
<br />area. To give you an example, we had the water tank business in Paradise Park. You know,
<br />there are a lot of people building houses in Paradise Park, they need a water tank, makes sense to
<br />have a baseyard for the water tank business somewhere very close to there. So those we put a
<br />five-year timeframe on.
<br />This particular business, although from an economic point of view, it may be more expensive to
<br />locate somewhere in Hilo. There certainly are, it’s not tied to being in Waiakea Uka. Aside
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