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<br />LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
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<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />NOVEMBER 15, 2012
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<br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I DEPARTMENT
<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application of
<br />OF PUBLIC WORKS (SMA 12-051)
<br /> was called to order at 1:20 p.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic
<br />Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway, Kailua-Kona,
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<br />Hawai‘i, with Chair Geraldine Giffin presiding.
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<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Geraldine Giffin, Lani Bowman, Brandi Beaudet,
<br />Thomas Hickcox, Richard Nelson, III and Thomas Whittemore (until 2:49 p.m.)
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<br />ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Wayne Iokepa
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<br />ALSO PRESENT: Ivan Torigoe (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning
<br />Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Planner), Maija Cottle (Planner)
<br />and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary)
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<br />And approximately 5 people from the public in attendance.
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<br />APPLICANT: COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
<br />(SMA 12-051)
<br />Application for a Special Management Area (SMA) Use Permit for the extension of La‘aloa
<br />Avenue as a two-lane, 60-foot wide collector roadway for approximately 1,900 feet to connect with
<br />Kuakini Highway (Alternative Alignment 3, Cross Section Alternative B), La‘aloa 1 and 2 and
<br />Pāhoehoe, North Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 7-7-004: 068, 7-7-008: 029, 114, 120 and 7-7-28: 007.
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<br />GIFFIN: Commissioners, we are moving along to Agenda Item No. 5. The applicant is the County
<br />of Hawai‘i Department of Public Works, SMA 12-051. Daryn?
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<br />ARAI: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Commissioners, you may recall that at your previous
<br />October 18, 2012, meeting on this particular agenda item, the Commission did consider the
<br />Planning Director’s recommendation that was distributed to you, as well as listen to testimony from
<br />the general public, as well as consider testimony in relation to a petition for a standing in a
<br />contested case proceeding that was presented by Mr. Eugene Clapp, and he was represented by his
<br />attorney, Randy Vitousek. At that particular meeting, after taking the testimony and considering the
<br />testimony presented by the intervenor, the Planning, Chairwoman Giffin, as the presiding officer,
<br />did continue the particular hearing on this matter to today in order to allow the Department of
<br />Public Works to submit within ten days prior to today’s meeting information regarding the Ali‘i
<br />Drive-La‘aloa intersection, any information regarding future roadway designs and comparison of
<br />the existing roadway improvements overlaid with the proposed improvements for the entire
<br />alignment of La‘aloa Avenue. Since that time, the Department of Public Works has met with the
<br />intervenor, or at least the intervenor’s attorney, along with the participation of the Planning
<br />Director. While information wasn’t provided to the Commission ten days prior to today’s meeting,
<br />as you instructed, there is a very good reason for that, and that reason is articulated in a letter dated
<br />November 14, 2012, from Roy Vitousek, Randy Vitousek, representing the petitioner, Onouli
<br />Farms, LLC, informing the Commission that they have reached a settlement, which has been
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