2011-07-21 Leeward Exh A - Innovations

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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JULY 21, 2011 INNOVATIONS PUBLIC CHARTER A regularly advertised hearing on the application of SCHOOL (AMENDMENT TO SPECIAL PERMIT NO. 1262) was called to order at 9:40 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Brandi Beaudet, Chair Pro Tem, presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Brandi Beaudet, Thomas Hickcox, Wayne Iokepa, Richard Nelson and Thomas Whittemore ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Lani Bowman and Geraldine Giffin STAFF PRESENT: Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Deanne Bugado (Staff Planner) And approximately 15 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: INNOVATIONS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (AMENDMENT TO SPECIAL PERMIT NO. 1262) Amendment request for a 4-year time extension to Condition No. 3 of Special Permit No. 1262, which allowed the establishment of a public charter school and related facilities on 5 acres of land situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. Condition No. 3 requires that a paved parking lot be provided for the school. The applicant is requesting an additional four (4) years to pave the existing gravel parking lot. The property is located along the east (mauka) side of Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway, approximately 1,500 feet north of the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway– rd Hualālai Road intersection, Pua‘a 3, North Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 7-5-10: portion of 1. BEAUDET: So the first application that we will look at this morning is through Innovations Public Charter School, amendment to Special Permit No. 1262. Deanne Bugado will be doing the presentation for this applicant. BUGADO: Thank you, Commissioners. Good morning. This is the Innovations Public Charter School, Special Permit amendment to Special Permit No. 1262. This was approved by the Planning Commission, April 22, 2005. The location of the charter school is noted in bold black. This is Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway and this is Hualālai Road. And the zoning in the area is Ag-5. There is some Ag-15 zoning to the east. There is Ag-5 to the north, Ag-15 further north. There is some RM-4 and some Ag-1A to the south. The General Plan designates the area as Urban Expansion. There is some Medium Density Urban to the west and some Important Ag Lands to the east. The Community Development Plan, it’s smack in the middle of the Puaa-Waiaha Village Transit Oriented Development circle; however, there is also a policy, because this application never came in for a change of zone and the approval was prior to the Community Development Plan being adopted, the application does not need to actually come in for any approval or compliance with the Transit Oriented Development type of development. Policy PUB-6.6 also identifies the important role of schools, so it supports the application for charter schools in Kona community. 1 EXHIBIT A