2012-12-13 Leeward Exh B - Bill No. 291

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LEITHEAD TODD: Feet. GIFFIN: Feet. BEAUDET: Feet. But I think, I would question that, doesn’t that provide the immediately impacted residents of the area due notice and the ability to comment on their support or non-support? I just don’t see where there is a lack of transparency and how Bill 291 will improve on that, given just basically providing another forum for the community to come forward. GIFFIN: Sir? MCINNIS: I was not speaking of the notices, per se, sir. We do get notices, if we lived in a certain radius. But then when the P.U.D. goes in for final approval, they, concerns of the citizens, their objections or speaking in favor of it, are not, they are subject to change with the direction of the Planning Director; that’s written into the zoning ordinance. The Planning Director herself has the leeway to change whatever. GIFFIN: Lani. BOWMAN: Maija, can you go back to the, the two different -. COTTLE: Flow chart? BOWMAN: Yeah, the flow charts. When -. We talked about community meetings, and you were talking about the two P.U.D.’s that are on the books now with Waiki‘i and Puakō. LEITHEAD TODD: Yes. BOWMAN: And I’m just wondering, and I’m sure you are familiar with the Action Committees and the Community Development Plans, you know, I thought I heard that there are community meetings being held for, when these come up. GIFFIN: Director? LEITHEAD TODD: We recently met with representatives of the Action Committees – this is within the past six months – and they asked for earlier notice of applications. It’s not just P.U.D.’s, it’s basically any type of application that requires notice to surrounding property owners, we are giving to them at the same time that we mail notice out to agencies, because typically we give agencies 30 days to comment. And so they get it at the same time, they can then put it on their agenda. And since we amended our process, the two P.U.D.’s that have come through have been Waiki‘i and Puakō. The other P.U.D.’s, previously, by the time they got notice of it, it would be too late to put on their agendas. So they’ve put it on their agendas. Actually, Waiki‘i, the first P.U.D. was withdrawn. We had six letters in opposition, two from surrounding property owners, and, you know, met with the applicant, and as a result of those they withdrew their application, the first application. The objection was that all the property owners, the smallest lot size was ten acres, and the P.U.D. was proposing some five-acre lots. So that one got withdrawn. They submitted a new P.U.D., which is the one that’s going to be at the next Action Committee, and that one, the smallest lots are ten acres. With Puakō they met with the Action Committee in a public forum where people 8 EXHIBIT B