2010-11-10 TPD_Use Permit _SCHOOLS

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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAIÒI HEARING TRANSCRIPT NOVEMBER 10, 2010 PLANNING DIRECTOR’S AMENDMENT TO A regularly advertised hearing on the CHAPTER 25 RELATING TO USE PERMITS AND SCHOOLS was called to order at 11:49 a.m. in the County of HawaiÒi Councilroom , County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, HawaiÒi, with Chairman Rell Woodward presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Rell Woodward, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Zendo Kern, and Wallace Ishibashi. STAFF PRESENT: Gerald Takase (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner). And 5 people from the public in attendance. ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Stephen Ono INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Article 2 and Article 5 of the HawaiÒi County Code, 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), relating to Use Permits and Schools. WOODWARD: The next item on the agenda is No. 6. Initiator is Planning Director , Amendment to Chapter 25, Article 2 and Article 5 of the HawaiÒi County Code relating to Use Permits and Schools. Mr. Arai, are you going to do this one? ARAI: Yes. The proposed bill thatÓs before you is to amend the Zoning Code in order to allow the landowners and the applicants the option of applying for a use permit to establish a school in the Industrial-zoned district and in the Resort-zoned district. The Zoning Code currently prohibits schools within, as an outright permitted use within certain Industrial-zoned districts and the Resort-zoned district. And it also prohibits even consideration of a Use Permit application to allow schools within those zoned districts. So this particular attempt here is simply to provide those opportunities. Because as explained in the background report there are schools that could be considered very reasonable within either the Resort- or the Industrial-zoned districts. And we feel that we should at least provide for those opportunities. On page 2 of your background report, our apologies but we did misspeak. In the second paragraph which starts off, ÐSome of these proposals on lands zoned for resort and industrial uses,Ñ if you look further down in the middle of the paragraph thereÓs a sentence that starts off ÐA vocational school that teaches welding is not permitted in the Industrial-zoned district.Ñ That is not entirely correct. We discovered that vocational schools are permitted within the Limited 1 EXHIBIT B