2005-08-26 REZ 05-002 State DLNR

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GRAHAM:Brian I know at the initial meeting I made a request that maybe you all wouldhave the opportunity to have some additional community meetings on this project. Has there been anything done in that regard? NISHIMURA:No. We havent. GRAHAM:Thank you. GALDONES:Good morning Commissioner Springer. Are there any further questions of Mr. Nishimura? If none, there was no one from the public who had signed up to testify on this matter and it comes with the recommendation from the Department for a favorable recommendation to the County Council. Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA:If its appropriate Im prepared to make the motion. GALDONES:Motion is in order. IWASHITA:I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Councilonapplicationforchangeofzone,docketnumberREZ05-002,theStateDepartmentof Land and Natural Resources application in this matter based on the Planning Directors recommendation and proposed conditions including the additional condition discussed today. MCCALL:Second. GALDONES:Thank you. It has been moved by Commissioner Iwashita and is seconded by Commissioner McCall that applicant from the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Change of Zone application, REZ 05-002 be given a favorable recommendation and be forwarded to the County Council with the amendments as recommended. Further discussion? Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:Well at the last meeting I indicated I could not support this application unless there was broad community support for it and I still feel the same way. I think, just to explain my reasons one more time, if the Commissioners would look at the back of the yellow recommendation sheet where the map is on the back page. You can see that full parcel State owned parcel for which the rezoning is only a piece thats circled here. So that whole parcel is on the ocean. The Kawaihae Harbor Complex is just to the right on the ocean as you look at it. The Kawaihae Water Complex has been a valued and often a heavily used recreation area over the years primarily for local families. But that has been really closed down the last several years because of the 9-11 security measures and all. So you have to go through a checkpoint and theres strict rules and things about who can even get in there so thats pretty much way down in use. And then looking to the left of the parcel and up mauka is Hawaiian Homes development in Kawaihae, which is still built out to a very small percentage of what it will be eventually. So theres going to be presumably a lot more folks getting lots up there. And to me for the State to take a very valued coastal parcel and right in the middle of an area that really needs ocean resources for the reasons I just- in building in the future, for the reasons I just discussed; I think its an inappropriate decision for the State to try to turn this into a money making parcel as EXHIBIT A 3