2012-08-02 Windward Transcript Regency

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the property is Low-Density Urban, that allows for single-family residential and some convenience type commercial uses. This is an aerial view of the property. These are the three lots that adjoin Kaumana Drive. You can see Kaumana Drive running through the middle of the slide here. And this general area is the location of the property that I am outlining. Again, you have the Luana Gardens Subdivision to the south of the subject property. This is Luana Way that joins up to Kaumana Drive. The applicant is proposing to establish and operate a 100-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation center. It's a 17.61-acre parcel. They are planning on using about 5 acres of the parcels at this time for the facility. This center will consist of a single-story wood frame structure approximately 48,000 square feet in size. And it will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in three shifts of skilled nursing staff. This is a site plan that the applicant submitted. You have Kaumana Drive along the left edge of the slide, and it shows their proposed access, and then a loop driveway. And you can see the single-story facility in the middle of the property here. Again, the Alenaio Stream runs along the east edge of the property. And this is, I’m not sure if you’re all familiar with Kaumana Drive, but it’s a fairly winding road in this area. The proposed driveway is actually on a curve off Kaumana Drive. So the applicant is proposing to construct some extensive improvements. They are proposing to install a left-turn lane into the property, that’s shown here. So they’ll need to widen Kaumana Drive in order to do that. And they’re also proposing to have a separate left-turn exit and a right-turn exit onto Kaumana. And then there’s also a left-turn refuge for vehicles turning out of the driveway, turning left, heading Kaumana Drive up towards the Saddle Road. This is a view of the property from Kaumana Drive looking across the street to the east. So you can see the property sits just a little bit below Kaumana Drive, and then it drops off pretty significantly towards the Alenaio Stream down below. The properties just west of Kaumana Drive actually have a pretty decent view of Hilo Bay and out, out towards Puna. This is a view of the existing drive way shown here on the right side of the slide. Looking down Kaumana Drive you can see the curve in the road. There is some limited sight distance in this area. This is looking towards Hilo. And then this view is looking towards, if you’re going Kaumana Drive up towards Saddle Road, you see the driveway here. The Planning Director is recommending approval of the permit with some conditions. And I just want to add a few things. The applicant’s representative met with neighbors in the surrounding area, neighbors that have homes along Kaumana Drive, here, here and then the Luana Gardens Community Association, which again is this area down here. He met with them in May of this year to get their feedback on the application and any concerns that they have. They did have concerns about sight distance on Kaumana Drive, they had concerns about drainage, just visual screening of the proposed center to their properties. So at that meeting and at subsequent meetings after that with the community these issues were worked out, and the applicant and community worked out a mitigation program. That’s included in one of your exhibits. And the Planning Department did try to incorporate as many of the conditions that were in that mitigation program into our conditions that we are recommending. So if you have any questions about those, I can expand on those, those conditions more. 2 EXHIBIT B