2011-05-04 Windward Planning Commission Hearing Transcript SP 11-115

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th HIRAKAMI: I think that, you know, when we were thinking about, that’s a misnomer, the K to 12 because we never really tried to develop it as a K-12. We’ve been looking at other sites but the th economy really stalled us. We had a 20-acre site that Hawaiian Paradise Park had set aside on 26 and Kaloli; and we were looking at that. The money essentially is drying up in the State and so, but we weren’t really going to develop the elementary side. What we wanted to do is to, we have an upper thth campus that we, now we separated the 7 and 8 grade. We want that to be a true middle school ththth campus, 6, 7 and 8 grades. To do that we need six classrooms. So we’re two short. We’ve got thth four classrooms. So we needed another duplex there. And we need a true high school with 9 to 12 grades, there’s four, so we need eight classrooms there. Right now we have six. We have two in the administration building and two duplexes. So we’ll need a duplex there and a duplex there to complete a middle school campus and a high school campus. And without that much more enrollment, in other words we don’t like to put 35 kids in a classroom. Twenty, 20, 20 kids in a classroom. So if you take 250 and divide it by 20 that’s 12 ½ classrooms. So we are short of classrooms. You know, we could use, if we go up to 280 which would be a full complement 6 to8 middle school, and 9 to 12, that would mean 14 classrooms. So those would be your two duplexes that would add to our complement of classrooms. So it’s not expanding to a great school. The campus is small. We’ve got a lot of sustainability projects going on. We have the mac nut orchards. And I think that, we’re not trying to develop the whole school. We’re not trying to become another big school. KERN: Okay. Let me ask this question. Would 280 or 300 be a better number with that condition that that does need to get done until it exceeds that but it’s not putting the burden on you? HIRAKAMI: Absolutely. KERN: Well, I can humbly ask my Fellow Commissioners to adjust the motion so it shows that, if they are so willing. AU: I’m willing to adjust Recommendation No. 9 to exclude “within five years from the effective date of this permit, the applicant, successors or assigns shall provide the following roadway improvements at the intersection of Post Office Road and Pāhoa Bypass (Highway 130) meeting with the approval of the Department of Transportation. Building permits for new structures shall not be issued and -.” KERN: So that’s blanked out, it no longer exists. AU: So we would like to leave “On-site student enrollment shall not exceed 300 students until all of these improvements have been constructed.” KERN: And all the rest would say the same underneath there. Can I get a second on that? DOMINGO: Second. KERN: Motion has been moved and seconded. Any other discussion? COTTLE: Excuse me, Mr. Chair. Mr. Domingo, did you second the original motion? 23 EXHIBIT A