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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br /> <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />MARCH 1, 2012 <br /> <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT TO MAP 15 OF <br />THE LUPAG MAP OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I GENERAL ON THE LAND USE DESIGNATION <br />FOR PĀHOA VILLAGE AND THE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREAS, was called to order at 9:24 <br />a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with <br />Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. <br /> <br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, Stephen Ono <br />and Raylene Moses <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), B. J. Leithead Todd (Planning Director), <br />Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), Jeff <br />Darrow (Staff Planner), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary) <br /> <br />And nine people from the public in attendance. <br /> <br />APPLICANT: PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED <br /> <br />Amendment to Map 15 of the Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map of the County of Hawai‘i <br />General Plan (adopted by Ordinance No. 05 25, amended by Ordinance No. 06 153) by changing the land use <br />designation for Pāhoa Village and the immediately surrounding areas, Pāhoa, Puna, Hawai‘i. <br /> <br />KERN: Applicant No. 2, Planning Director initiated amendment to <br />Map 15 of the Land Use Pattern <br />Allocation Guide (LUPAG) Map of the County of Hawai‘i General Plan for Pāhoa Village. With that we’ll go <br />into the presentation. Maija. <br /> <br />COTTLE: Good morning -. <br /> <br />KERN: Good morning. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: Good morning. <br /> <br />COTTLE: Mr. Chair and Commissioners. This item is a General Plan Amendment and is being initiated by the <br />Planning Director. And the reason that the Director is initiating this amendment is because back in 2008 the <br />Puna Community Development Plan was adopted. And the land use policies and goals in that CDP don’t <br />translate exactly to the General Plan. So this was an effort to bring the General Plan LUPAG Map more in <br />alignment with those goals and policies of the CDP. One of the main policies of the CDP is to create a village <br />center specifically for Pāhoa. It’s supposed to be a regional village center, as well as Kea‘au. Those are the two <br />in the Puna district. So the idea of the village center is to create higher density uses in the town core. And then <br />as you go out from the town core your densities become lower. So that was one of the goals of this General Plan <br />Amendment. <br /> <br />The other goal was to limit commercial and industrial development along the Pāhoa Bypass. You’ve probably <br />seen comments from DOT as you reviewed applications; and their recommendation is usually not to have <br />commercial driveways along their State roadways. So this is an effort to pull that commercial and industrial <br /> 1 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />