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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT AUGUST 31, 2007 A regularly advertised hearing on the COUNTY COUNCIL INITIATED AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 23 AND CHAPTER 25 RELATING TO SUBDIVISIONSwas called to order at 2:01 p.m. at the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with Chairman William Graham presiding. PRESENT: C. Kimo Alameda ABSENT & EXCUSED: Takashi Domingo William Graham Shelly Ogata Andrew Iwashita Rene’ Siracusa Alvin Rho Rodney Watanabe Rell Woodward Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel Christopher Yuen, Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner And approximately 23 people from the public in attendance. INITIATOR COUNTY COUNCIL Continuation of a Public Hearing on an amendment to Chapter 23, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), as amended, relating to Subdivisions, and Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 Edition), as amended.The proposed amendment would require subdivisions of seven or more lots to be processed in the same manner as a change of zone in accordance with Hawaii County Code Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Sections 25-2-42 and 25-2-43. GRAHAM: I think we can move onto our next Agenda Item today, and that’s continuation of a public hearing on an amendment to Chapter 23 relating to Subdivisions, as well as Chapter 25, of the Hawaii County Code. The amendment would require subdivisions of seven or more lots be processed in the same manner as a change of zone in accordance with the Hawaii County Code Chapter 25. And Mr. Yuen, our Planning Director, will give us a little presentation on this one also. YUEN: These are also two Council initiated bills which, because they would change the Subdivision Code in one case and the Zoning Code in the other case, are being sent first to the Planning Director and then to the Planning Commission for their recommendation, and will be considered and acted upon later by the Council after receiving this. They deal with a different stage in the land use process than the Planning Commission has normally dealt with. The case of subdivisions, after a property has been zoned, particularly for residential areas, the next stage is usually that it comes for a subdivision. For example, the Planning Commission has seen many rezoning applications where a piece of property that may EXHIBIT F 1