2012-07-19 Leeward Exh B - Bill No. 255

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education center and a biweekly farmers’ market, then you will be subject to all the standard commercial improvements that we normally require of anyone else. So I guess what I’m basically saying is you’ll be, should this amendment be approved by the County Council, you will be limited to those two uses, nothing more. VAN DYKE: Okay. ARAI: And if you want to contemplate something much grander, then that should have been considered before Bill 255 was submitted down to this office. But as it stands, the proposed revision is what was offered to us; there was no real detailed explanation on what else was coming. We had to glean through the records that everything was being promulgated by the desire of the community to have a, to re-establish the farmers’ market on the property. So that’s what we knew and that’s what we try to accommodate. VAN DYKE: Okay, thank you. BOWMAN: Commissioners, any questions? I have a question, comment, or something, in regards, say, the Boy Scouts. Would that be ancillary use to the visitor center, if the Boy Scouts came, that kind of thing? I mean, what’s ancillary to the visitor center? Cause I think that’s a question. ARAI: The visitor center is, the way I understand it, educational. A lot of what’s occurring on the property is educational. If there is some sort of activity that is promoting the direct operations of the visitor education center, then that is maybe something we can consider as ancillary and supportive, or related, to the operations of the visitor education center. Something like, if the Boy Scouts were to hold a bake sale or a fundraiser to support the operations of the visitor center, that’s fine; but if they hold a makahiki or some other type of event that has no direct bearing on the operations of the visitor center or the Greenwell Botanical Garden, then I would think that would be in conflict with the code. I just see no relationship. BOWMAN: Thank you. But that doesn’t preclude them from holding, like, you have your Amy Botanical Days; so they could have one of those in addition to the biweekly markets, right? Because that’s, again, totally for the visitor center. I’m just trying to clarify. Say, they had a ‘ulu festival that was ancillary to the visitor center. ARAI: You know, I try to think that the Department prides itself on being reasonable, so I would think that, you know, it really depends; I mean, I don’t think we are going to come across and be unreasonable on how we review things. But, you know, it’s hard for me to pass judgment without sitting down because -. Understand that the Planning Director is trying to accommodate the desires of the community but is also very aware of the concerns affecting the area – one of them being drainage, the other one clearly being traffic. So that is always in the back of our mind. And we do have a fiducially responsibility to make sure that whatever is being offered remains consistent with the intent of what’s being offered through this bill, but not compromise the purpose of our zoning requirements, which would normally, as I mentioned before, require that roadways in the area and drainage system be improved to commercial standards. So if you want free liberty to do whatever you want within the Commercial zone district, then we are going to expect all the improvements to be put in first. 8 EXHIBIT B