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The proposed amendment is to permit the continued use of gravel parking for the parking lot until <br />June 4, 2015, or four additional years. The gravel parking lot in question is this area right here on <br />the site plan. And just some pictures of the current gravel parking lot. <br /> <br />The Planning Director’s recommendation is to approve the amendment to Special Permit 1262. Are <br />there any questions? <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Any questions from the Commissioners for staff? Will the applicant and <br />representative please come forward? Thank you. Could you please raise your right hand? Do you <br />swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Leeward Planning <br />Commission? <br /> <br />WOERNER: I do. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Thank you. Could you please state your name? <br /> <br />WOERNER: Barbara Woerner. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Thank you. You can begin your testimony. <br /> <br />WOERNER: Well, first, I would like to thank the Planning Department for recommending <br />approval of our request. We are in the process of purchasing additional four acres added on to the <br />school campus. And we will eventually have a different access road into the property, which is why <br />we are requesting to have the gravel parking lot that we are currently using continue to be gravel <br />until we get our additional piece of property and do our master planning. By looking at the map, we <br />enter on your left off of Queen K Highway and come up, our parents come up and they do a loop <br />around – I’m not very good with this (PowerPoint laser pointer), you press the red, all right – so you <br />come up the road this way, our parents enter the gravel parking, and then they exit back out onto <br />Queen K Highway. So that’s working well for us. When we purchase, next month we are getting <br />ready to close on the four-acre parcel up here, and there is going to be a permanent road that is not <br />off of Queen K Highway where our parents will be able to bring students to school. And at that <br />time we are going to be putting in a parking lot on that upper four acres. So charter schools don’t <br />get funding for facilities, and to pave the parking lot would be very expensive for us. We are not <br />opposed to paving it; we’d like to pave it, but we don’t think that’s going to end up being our final <br />location for the parking lot. So that’s the reason for our request. <br /> <br />And I do have one more request on the recommendation from the Planning Department; Item 19 <br />was the extension clause and it was eliminated, and I’d like to request that one extension be added <br />back on to the condition, so that -. Our intent and our desire is to have the parking lot paved in four <br />years, but we have to put a road in in order to do that. It’s got to be a connector road over to <br />Hualālai. And we have full intention of doing that; we are working with the developers in the area <br />to make sure that happens. But, as you know, in Kona sometimes things go a little more slowly <br />than you anticipate. So if we could have one more extension there, the option to have one more <br />extension without having to go through this process, where the Planning Director can take a look at <br />it and decide if it’s a worthy request, we would appreciate that. <br /> <br />BEAUDET: Any comment from staff on the request? <br /> <br />2 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />