2012-11-15 Leeward Exh D - Innovations

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This is the applicant’s proposed master plan; again, you can see the access off of the highway now. They are proposing two large parking areas here. Currently, the structures in red are the existing structures on the site, and then the expanded campus would be this area here. You see a basketball court, some play fields, and then some classroom buildings are shown in the blue color. Then the proposed access off of Hualālai Road would come up in this general area here from the south into this parking area. And again, this is Hualālai Road; so you see the proposed access, driveway access to the upper campus here. This is the current entrance driveway from the highway. And this is a view of the current entrance looking towards the south; you can see the no-left-turn sign, so people traveling from the north know not to turn left into the site. And then this is the current entrance from the highway, looking north. This is the exit driveway over the adjacent landowner’s access easement to the north. And then, this is again the access easement comes out in this area here, and then vehicles would turn right to go north out of the campus. This is a view of the exit driveway looking south, and a view of the exit driveway looking north. This is the Hualālai Road intersection; I just wanted to show you this so that you would see, by opening a new access off of Hualālai Road, parents traveling from the north will now be able to turn left. There is a left-turn lane. They will turn left and then go into the Hualālai Road driveway, and then parents can come out of the Hualālai Road driveway and again make a left and go south; those are the two movements that parents cannot do at this time on the campus. And this is the Hualālai Road near the proposed driveway, looking west, makai, and looking east; so you have some good sight distance in this area here. The Planning Director is recommending approving the amendment to Special Permit 1262. And I just want to add a few things: We did speak with the representative from Public Works right before the hearing, and he did mention some concern with not having the upper campus and the lower campus connected by vehicular access, particularly because the Hualālai Road area had some floodways going through that area of where the access easement would be located; so should there be flooding, we want to make sure that there is a way for the students on the upper campus to get out of the campus. So we’ve discussed it with the applicant. And the Planning Director is recommending Condition 3 be modified, and I’d like to read the addition to the condition. At the end of Condition 3, we’d like to add, “The applicant shall provide a 15-foot wide emergency vehicular access between the upper and lower campuses.” And then we would also like to, on Condition 7, there is a sentence that says, “The driveway shall include all-weather crossings over the Waiaha Drainageway since this driveway will serve as the primary access for the campus,” we would like to add a comma and say, “if required by the Department of Public Works.” That’s kind of in the middle of Page 10. Those are the two changes that we are recommending. And that concludes my presentation. Are there any questions? GIFFIN: Commissioners, any questions of Maija? Lani. BOWMAN: Can we just look at the site plan? Okay. So the access from upper campus to lower campus would be, where is it proposed or they are not? COTTLE: They are not real sure right now; maybe when the applicant comes up, they can let you know what their concept is -. BOWMAN: Okay. So the access from Hualālai Road is in the upper right hand -. COTTLE: It would be -. 3 EXHIBIT D