2012-06-07 Windward Transcript HI Island Bd. of Realtors

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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JUNE 7, 2012 HAWAII ISLAND BOARD OF REALTORS A regularly advertised hearing on the application of ‘ (REZ 12-153) was called to order at 9:22 a.m. in the Council Chambers, Hawai‘i County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Ronald Gonzales, and Stephen Ono STAFF PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), B. J. Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), and Sharon Nomura (Secretary) ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Wallace Ishibashi and Raylene Moses And 7 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: HAWAII ISLAND BOARD OF REALTORS (REZ 12-153) ‘ Change of Zone from a Single Family Residential-10,000 square feet (RS-10) to General Commercial- 20,000 square feet (CG-20) for 20,160 square feet of land. The property is located along the northeast (makai) side of Kino‘ole Street, approximately 250 feet northwest of the Kino‘ole Street-Lanikaula Street intersection, Waiākea Houselots, Waiākea, South Hilo, Hawai‘i, TMK: 2-2-024:005. KERN: Application No. 3, Hawai‘i Island Board of Realtors (REZ 12-153), Change of Zone from a Single Family Residential-10,000 square feet (RS-10) to General Commercial-20,000 square feet (CG- 20) for 20,160 square feet of land, located on TMK: 2-2-024:005 in Waiākea Houselots on Kino‘ole Street-Lanikaula Street intersection. And I’ll take the opportunity to thank the staff for doing such a great job of preparing all of our background reports and recommendation. We do appreciate all your hard work. With that, we’ll move on to staff presentation. Jeff? ‘ DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As mentioned our next applicant is the Hawaii Island Board of Realtors. They’re requesting a Change of Zone. The location of this subject property is within the South Hilo district. More specifically, we’re looking at Kilauea running in a north/south direction in the middle of the map, as well as Kino‘ole Street. They’re running parallel. We have Lono Street that is running in a, I guess, north/south as well. But, additionally we have West Lanikāula Street. The subject property is identified with a black outline on the lower portion of the map. Again, the different colors represent the different types of zoning. The yellow is representative of Single-Family Residential – 10,000 square feet. The darker colors that you see on the map, as well as the lighter brown colors, represent both Commercial zoning as well as Multiple Family Residential zoning. These different darker colors represent Commercial or General Commercial zoning, which is similar to what the applicant is requesting. This is the General Plan LUPAG Map for the property. The red identifies High Density Urban, which allows for General Commercial as well as Multiple Family Residential type uses. 1 EXHIBIT A