2011-05-19 Leeward Exh B - UH Marine Center

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The Planning Director is recommending approval of this SMA Use Permit application subject to recommended conditions of approval. If I may direct your attention to your background report. On the first page, we attempted to outline the five primary structures on the subject property. We did make a couple of errors. First of all, where it says “Boat Building,” a simple amendment I would like to make to the background report is that it is a 6,600-square foot structure, so basically referencing a floor area, not length – I wouldn’t think something would be that long anyway. And the dormitory structure further down on the page, the only change we would like to put here is that the accessory caretaker unit is not a part of the dormitory, it’s actually a part of the faculty building; so we are going to simply amend by placing the reference to the caretaker’s unit and attaching it to the sentence discussing the faculty building. If you go to your recommendation report, it recites the same discussion regarding the proposed improvements, and we are going to make the same corrections on the recommendation report as well. We do have two letters that were provided by the applicant, dated May 5, and those communication have been distributed to all of the Commissioners. We also note that there are two letters by the applicant in your background, attached to your background report, dated April 28, and those letters were discussing, well, responding to comments provided by the various commenting agencies; we inadvertently left out Page 2 from both of those letters. So I recently distributed the master copy to all of you and it’s making its way around, and that contains the missing page. So with that, I stand ready to answer any questions that you may have. BOWMAN: Commissioners? I have a question. You had said that you were taking off the accessory caretaker’s unit from the dormitory. ARAI: Yes. BOWMAN: But don’t you have to take off the “and 12 faculty?” Isn’t the faculty separate also? ARAI: No, the dormitory will accommodate twelve faculty members. There is another faculty building -. BOWMAN: Okay, I’m sorry. Thank you. ARAI: Yeah, so I think the dormitory will actually provide accommodation for faculty while the faculty building itself contains their offices and so forth and so on. Maybe the applicant can clarify that later when he comes up. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you. Any other questions, Commissioners? May I call the applicant and/or their representative to please come up and be sworn in? Would you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i Leeward County Planning Commission? REPRESENTATIVES: Yes. BOWMAN: And would you please maybe state your names for the record? LEJEUNE: I’m Ted LeJeune. I’m a project manager with the UH Hilo, Office of Facilities Planning and Construction. 3 EXHIBIT B