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SIRACUSA:Just a question of definition. Removal of natural materials, how would <br />that compare with, say, mining, or are they going to be considered equivalent? <br />HAYASHI:Mining or quarrying, is that your question? <br />SIRACUSA:Yes. <br />HAYASHI:Yeah, that would be included as mining or quarrying of natural material. <br />GALDONES:Commissioner Graham? <br />GRAHAM:I€m certainly okay with the gist of it. But only I€m concerned about, I <br />don€t have a, as clear a sense of where are the General Industrial lands as the Planning Director <br />does. But if it€s just a permitted use and requires no Use Permit, I can imagine there may be <br />operationswithintheGeneralIndustrialcategoryrightnowwhereifsomebodywalksinright <br />next door and builds a quarry it would be very harmful to them; but I might be wrong on that, I <br />don€t know. Should it be something that requires a Use Permit or something whereby we can€t, <br />we don€t wind up with two conflicting issues? Just thinking about the quarry issue we had down <br />in Ka`u before, you know, about the dust and all that. I don€t know, that€s just my concern I <br />want to bring up. <br />YUEN:Well, as to where the General Industrial zones are, no, I don€t want to <br />answer that off the top of my head. I know that, one, that there is a MG in Shipman Business <br />Park, correct, Norman? <br />HAYASHI:That€s correct. <br />YUEN:And then near Hilo Airport would be in the vicinity -. <br />HAYASHI:That general area is designed General Industrial. <br />YUEN:And there€s a recent, what actually, one of the things that brought this <br />forward was the Honokohau Business Park where the current quarry is north of Kailua-Kona. <br />That was being quarried on a Conservation District Use Permit, Norman, is that right? <br />HAYASHI:That€s how it was initially permitted, correct. <br />YUEN:Yeah. And so that, that gets rezoned to General Industrial and it still could <br />continue as grandfathered. But then you have this question about expansion and new equipment <br />and the like. So that€s one of the things that brought this forward; and it should be a permitted <br />use in a Heavy Industrial zone, which is an area where potentially noxious industrial uses are <br />generally allowed. All our recent quarries have been and actually done by Special Permit in the <br />Ag District, because that€s the only way you can actually do a quarry, is to go in Ag. The noise <br />and dust impacts have overall State Department of Health regulations that would control those. I <br />can€t tell you exactly what those are, but those will be the level of control. <br />2 <br /> <br />