2013-02-07 Windward Transcript Mauch

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these village center areas are, the whole purpose of them is to have people come to the village center and be able to do a variety of shopping. So they’re oriented more towards the retail commercial uses. ONO: I guess my concern is that as we move on into the future, supposedly, these are supposedly residential developments. And so if these were grandfathered in as a business, I wonder what kind of impact that would have on future developments, residential developments, in the area? COTTLE: Well, the subdivision is not actually a residential subdivision. It’s an agricultural subdivision. So even though it has kind of a rural/residential character, the zoning laws say that the purpose of the lots are to be used for agricultural uses primarily. ONO: And agricultural use is something like a kitchen? COTTLE: Something similar to this, yeah. ONO: Thank you. LEITHEAD TODD: I want to comment that it’s further complicated because, you know, we have County zoning which is Agricultural one acre for most of this, but you also have State Land Use classification which is Agricultural. And it’s a pre-1976 subdivision so they do have a right to build a residence on it. I think the long-range goal was to try and go more towards Rural designation and the Rural State Land Use Classification. But Rural is kind of a mixture of Agriculture and Residential. Part of the difficulty with some of the Puna Community Development Plan is that in some of the areas where they want to target certain types of growth, particularly the larger 20-acre parcels that are all owned by the Watamulls, and since, you know, subdividing and starting to sell these lots, there has been absolutely no movement by that property owner to do anything with those lots, despite the original intent that those 20-acre parcels would be where you have commercial and/or industrial developments. So, you know, and what we’ve also said in our prior applications when they’re not right next to each other, they’re in different areas, they’re different property owners, is that usually what you have is community support for the prior permits that we’ve had. In this one, what’s a little unusual is this is a permitted use if they were just doing the kukui nut that they grow on the property. It requires a special use permit because he’s bringing stuff in from off-site, which in the future the law may change to allow that kind of use because it is an agricultural use of the property, it’s processing a locally grown agricultural product into a, and in this case, a traditional product, ‛Inamona. It’s a relatively small operation. And let me say that in a sense that, you know, 320, was it 320 square foot with the other thing? And my understanding is that it’s probably the immediate family, if I recall correctly, that’s going to work on this. So you don’t have that issue of, you know, 20 or 30 workers driving to a site to work. So it doesn’t generate the kind of traffic that was envisioned in these village centers in the development plan. 3 EXHIBIT B