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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT NOVEMBER 24, 2010 PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT A regularly advertised hearing on the TO CHAPTER 25, RELATING TO USE PERMITS FOR SCHOOLS was called to order at 11:20 a.m. in the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, Ballroom I, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Frederic Housel presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Frederic Housel, Brandi Beaudet, Lani Bowman, Thomas Hickcox and Richard Nelson ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Geraldine Giffin and Wayne Iokepa STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) And one person from the public in attendance. INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Article 2 and Article 5 of the Hawai‘i County Code, 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), relating to Use Permits for Schools within the Hotel-Resort (V), General Industrial (MG), Limited Industrial (ML) and Industrial-Commercial Mixed (MCX) zoned Districts. HOUSEL: The next item on our agenda is Item No. 7. The initiator is the Planning Director, and this is an amendment to Chapter 25, Zoning Code, Article 2 and Article 5 of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983, relating to the use permits for schools within the Hotel-Resort, General Industrial, Limited Industrial and Industrial-Commercial Mixed zoned districts. Daryn, would you like to give us a little more information? ARAI: Sure. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Commissioners. The purpose of the bill before you is basically to provide an option to landowners and applicants to apply for a use permit to allow the establishment of schools within the Hotel-Resort and various Industrial zone districts. Presently, the Zoning Code does permit schools outright as a permitted use within various Commercial designated districts. It also allows by a use permit granted by the Planning Commission the opportunity to allow schools within Residential and Agricultural zoned districts. Unfortunately, the Zoning Code currently prohibits the opportunity to apply for a use permit within certain Industrial zoned districts, as well as the Resort Hotel zoned districts. Again, this proposed bill simply provides that opportunity for one to apply; the Commission must still act on it before granting the proposed use. And the background and recommendation report that you have before you, if you were to refer to Page 2, in the second to last paragraph, about the middle of the paragraph, there is a sentence that starts off, “A vocational school that teaches welding is not permitted in the Industrial-zoned district”; that is not a correct statement. Upon looking further we realized that a vocational school 1 EXHIBIT D