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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT DECEMBER 5, 2008 HAWAIIAN RAINFOREST A regularly advertised hearing on the applications of WATER CO. LLC (SLU 08-000021/REZ 08-000085) was called to order at 10:43 a.m. in the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Conference Room, 655 Kilauea Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding. PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda Lani Bowman Takashi Domingo Frederic Housel Andrew Iwashita Shelly Ogata Rell Woodward Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel Daryn Arai, Acting Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Staff Planner Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner Maija Cottle, Staff Planner And approximately 15 people from the public in attendance APPLICANT: HAWAIIAN RAINFOREST WATER CO. LLC (SLU 08-000021/REZ 08-000085) a.State Land Use Boundary Amendment from the Agricultural to the Urban District for 10.373 acres of land. b.Change of Zone from an Agricultural 20-acre (A-20a) to a Limited Industrial 1-acre (ML-1a) district for 10.373 acres. The property is located on the southeast corner of the E. Milo Street – Railroad Avenue junction, in the vicinity of the current HELCO Keaau power plant site, Keaau, Puna, Hawaii, TMK: 1-6-3: 18 and 23. WATANABE: Agenda Item No. 4, the applicant is Hawaiian Rainforest Water Co. LLC. It’s a State Land Use Application 08-000021 and a Rezone Application 08-000085. With that, I’ll turn it over to Maija. COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The application before us is to consider a State Land Use Boundary Amendment from Agricultural to Urban and a Change of zone from Agricultural 20-acre to Limited Industrial 1-acre. The property is located in Keaau in the Puna District. And just to kind of orient you to the location of the property, on the slide, on the left side of the slide is the Volcano Highway, so it’s heading out of Hilo and then up towards EXHIBIT C