2024-02-01 Windward Exh B (Item #2 Manono Corner LLC)

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General Plan and so probably the staff can kind of verify that if the property were it's currently zoned single-family residential. So, if he were to rezone it to Multiple-Family or Duplex or whatever it'll be contrary to the General Plan so that rezoning on its face would not be acceptable. So, his kind of like stuck in the sense that in terms of any new zoning classification would have to be industrially related. So, given that kind of scenario, he looked at different options of you know there's 3 industrial categories. You have the Heavy Industrial, you have a Light Industrial and you have the Mixed- Commercial Industrial. So, Mixed-Commercial Industrial pretty much is the lightest on most benign of industrial uses. So you have more of a combination of commercial and retail activities. The only exception I would think within the MCX zone, which isn't allowed in a General Commercial district, would be like self-storage facilities. Well, self-storage facilities within the MCX zone will be possible. So, what I'm trying to share with the Commission is essentially that regrettably even if he wants to have a higher density maybe a residential project it would be contrary to the General Plan would not be possible as its currently stands. There were also comments about like there were 2 or 3 other properties in the general area that were rezoned recently or recently at least in this century. In those 2 properties I downloaded them and they're commercially zoned and the rules are correct the property across of them was rezoned commercial and that rezoning occurred in 2005 and with the stipulation that construction occur within 5 years subject to 5-year administrative extension. Well, that expired. So, essentially the property is kind of like one of those properties from a zoning standpoint in limbo. So, whoever wants to develop or use the land for what it was currently zoned for, zoned for Commercial- Neighborhood would have to go back to the Commission and also ultimately before the Council to seek an extension before anything can happen on the property. Why that property has not been developed? Neither me nor Mr. Hamilton can really say that it's their respective property owners' choice. There were also the other property that was zoned in 2016 just further down the street. There were actually 2 parcels. On that property too, they had like a 5-year construction window, it was subject to a 5-year administrative extension and so it was effective August of 2016. So, basically, they are subject to an administrative extension they would have like until the year 2016 to complete something on the project. Why they haven't, why they have or have not developed again, we don't know. Like the other comment that was made relating to the land use was that perhaps there's not a demand and maybe its location is not the most conducive for commercial activities and I think the letter the testimony pointed out to Subway,just right up the street. Which is a small little commercial complex was within the small little commercial complex on the corner of Lanikaula and Kilauea Avenue. I don't necessarily subscribe to that because if you just look right on just go further mauka on the corner of Lanikaula and Kino`ole you have the Bank of Hawaii. So, it's not necessarily the location that dictates whether a building or a use is or is not successful. There are so many other factors that go into what makes a use or commercial use successful or not. So, that's really like from a land use standpoint and so when we had a discussion in terms of what type of land use or zoning should be most appropriate over here. Then obviously you look at the General Plan and so that's been kind of like the guiding principle and trying to go more on the lightest of the industrial given the fact that this is an area of transition. There were also like 13 EXHIBIT B