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<br />LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
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<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />MARCH 15, 2012
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<br />PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT
<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the
<br />TO CHAPTER 25, RELATING TO CREMATORIUMS, FUNERAL HOMES, FUNERAL
<br />SERVICES AND MORTUARIES
<br />was called to order at 10:00 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic
<br />Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona,
<br />Hawai‘i, with Chair Geraldine Giffin presiding.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Geraldine Giffin, Lani Bowman, Richard Nelson and
<br />Thomas Whittemore
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<br />ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Brandi Beaudet, Thomas Hickcox and Wayne Iokepa
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<br />ALSO PRESENT: Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) and Noriko Sauer
<br />(Commission Secretary)
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<br />And no one from the public in attendance.
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<br />PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED
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<br />Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code) of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as
<br />amended), relating to crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services and mortuaries.
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<br />GIFFIN: Moving right along, we are now on Agenda Item No. 4, also initiated by the Planning
<br />Director. It is an amendment to Chapter 25, as we’ve been doing, on the Zoning Code, Articles 2
<br />and 4, relating to zoning district regulations for crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and
<br />mortuaries. Jeff?
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<br />DARROW: Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, Members of the Planning Commission.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS: Good morning.
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<br />DARROW: Our last item on the agenda is an amendment to Chapter 25, relating to regulations for
<br />crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and mortuaries. Just recently the County Council
<br />had initiated Bill 90, which had done a thorough job of changing the Zoning Code to allow
<br />crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and mortuaries to be combined together and be
<br />consistent in the Code instead of being separated. And so during the process, the Planning
<br />Department, as well as the Planning Commission, was asked to comment on that bill. And the
<br />Planning Commission sent up three different changes, or requests, to make that the Planning
<br />Department and the Planning Commission found that would help with the consistency of that Bill
<br />90. Well, during the process when that went up, apparently there was some confusion as to how to
<br />correctly process this. So what the County Council has directed the Planning Department to do is to
<br />allow Bill 90 to go through, be passed, and then for the Planning Department to initiate, or the
<br />Planning Director, to initiate a bill with those three changes and send it up after. And so that’s what
<br />we are doing. So again, this is simple housekeeping. And the three changes are listed on the
<br />Background and Recommendation, which include the section on Use Permits, so that it identifies
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