09-24-2012 SKCDP AC Minutes Final

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The Committee then turned to new business. Mr. Dunlap reviewed the manner in which the Committee will continue to participate in the interviewing of candidates for membership on the Committee. Two members of the Committee, designated by the Chairman, will participate in all interviews of candidates. Mr. Dunlap added that the Planning Department is expecting to receive four applications for membership on the Committee in the very near future. It was noted that there will be four vacancies on the Committee when the terms of Mr. Schulze and Ms. Inaba are concluded in February 2013. Mr. Dunlap had not yet received a response from the Planning Department to the Committees request that advertisements be placed in the public media regarding the openings on the Committee. Mr. Dunlap also indicated that the Planning Department is aware of the adoption by the Committee of a resolution asking that the Committee be notified of, and be given the opportunity to provide timely comments on, all applications to the Planning Department. He stated that the matter would be discussed at a meeting on September 25, which will be attended by Ms. Leithead-Todd, Mr. Dunlap, the Chair and Co-Chair of the North Kohala and South Kohala CDP Action Committees, and others. Mr. Fischer indicated that the Committee would be advised at the October Committee meeting of the discussions at the September 25 meeting In connection therewith, Ms. Inaba stated that it is unclear how the Planning Department determines which applications will be sent to the Waimea Design Review Committee for comment. She noted that various types of applications have been sent to the Design Review Committee but that the Longs Drugs application was not sent to that committee despite it being one of the most significant applications concerning Waimea to come before the Planning Department recently. The next item on the Agenda was statements from the public. Gunnar Mensch stated that Ms. Tanimoto and the committee should investigate getting fuel and hazardous materials out of the tsunami zone. He stated that the log storage program will be using the area dredged in Kawaihae Harbor, which is a safer location than is now being used to store the logs, but that there is insufficient ingress and egress at the main gate and the south gate to the area for such usage. He urged that a left turn pocket lane be added to improve traffic flow and safety under the circumstances. Robbie Robertson stated that the correspondence that Mr. Hoover had referred to from representatives of the Puako community to the Mayor which was sent in July 2012 was consistent with the South Kohala CDP. He noted that access to Wailea Bay is limited by a gate but that this alone has not resolved the issues that have been discussed, and that the additional gate on Old Puako Road (and perhaps others) will be needed to deal with these problems in the future. Bob Green said that the gates that limit access to areas on the Big Island, such as at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, have tended to reduce the use of such areas by people from the Big Island, leaving these areas for use mainly by tourists, and he stated that this is not a desirable result. The members then discussed the agenda for the next regularly scheduled meeting. The following items were suggested for inclusion in the agenda: 1. Response from Corporation Counsel to opinion letter request; and 4