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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT AUGUST 18, 2011 HAWAI‘I ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY A regularly advertised hearing on the applications of (SPP 11-120 and, formerly JOHN KOBAYASHI AND FUKU BONSAI INC., SPP 581) was called to order at 9:45 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Wayne Iokepa, Chair Pro Tem, presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Wayne Iokepa, Thomas Hickcox, Richard Nelson and Thomas Whittemore ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Brandi Beaudet, Lani Bowman and Geraldine Giffin STAFF PRESENT: Julie Mecklenburg (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) And approximately 45 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: HAWAI‘I ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY (SPP 11-120) Application for a Special Permit to allow the establishment of an animal sheltering facility and related uses on 12 acres of land within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is the former Fuku-Bonsai site and is located on the mauka side of Māmalahoa Highway, northwest of the Ha‘awina Street – Māmalahoa Highway intersection, mauka portion of Keauhou 1st, North Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 7-8-006:065. APPLICANT: HAWAI‘I ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY (formerly JOHN KOBAYASHI AND FUKU BONSAI INC.) (SPP 581) Revocation of Special Permit No. 581, which was approved by the Planning Commission on April 10, 1985 to allow the establishment of a bonsai visitor center, which included the charging of admission fees, the sale of unrelated agricultural, commercial and food items, and related improvements; and was amended on July 16, 1990 to allow the establishment of a coffee processing facility for exhibit, museum and retail sales; and was further amended on December 26, 2000 to allow the establishment of an indoor and outdoor self-storage facility on 12 acres of land within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is the former Fuku-Bonsai site and is located on the mauka side of Māmalahoa Highway, northwest of the Ha‘awina Street – Māmalahoa Highway intersection, mauka portion of Keauhou 1st, North Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 7-8-006:065. IOKEPA: We are ready to move along with our next agenda item, Hawai‘i Island Humane Society. This is an application for Special Permit to allow the establishment of an animal sheltering facility and related uses on twelve acres of land within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The property is the former Fuku Bonsai site and is located on the mauka side of Māmalahoa Highway, northwest of the Ha‘awina Street – Māmalahoa Highway intersection, mauka portion of Keauhou st 1, North Kona, Hawai‘i. Maija? 1 EXHIBIT A