2013-04-18 Windward Transcript Santo

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Sometime ago, and I forget the exact date, the County did allow a consolidation/resubdivision of the property to basically grab a portion of the one-acre portion in the back and absorb it into the RS. So, in essence, the County created a split zone situation. So, you know, we allowed that to happen. So now the applicant is saying give us the opportunity to eliminate this split zoning which creates complications. So that’s part of the consideration when we reviewed this application. LEITHEAD TODD: The other thing, you might notice, if you look at the lots next door and how far back from the road they go, you can see that the RS zoning, you know, typically runs much farther back from Ainako than this particular parcel does. And so the reclassification to Urban is really consistent with what’s right next door all along Ainako. The reason that the property to the left is still, you know, Ag is basically cause that’s where the road extension is supposed to go along the boundary of their property. Whether the County ever builds that road, I don’t know. But we, you know, generally we try to plan for connectivity. ARAI: And what I just threw up on the screen is what the County envisions as possibly a future road alignment. And you can see Ainako here at the top, the subject property outlined in back, and this is an extension of Iwipolena Street which goes all the way back down to Kaūmana Drive. ISHIBASHI: Any further questions to staff from the Commissioners? Okay, thank you. Could we have the applicants come forward. FUKE: Good morning. ISHIBASHI: Good morning. Raise your right hand. FUKE: Sure. ISHIBASHI: Do you affirm to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission over this matter? FUKE: I do. ISHIBASHI: Thank you. Go ahead. FUKE: Okay. Mr. Chairman, for the record, my name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consultant, but today I’m kind of like working in the capacity of trying to help out my friend of over 40 years; and he’s a surveyor. He started off the company called Island Survey. Island Survey is still kind of on-going. He’s 86 or 87 years old, he and his wife; and he still golfs once a week. But, and his daughter who is a physical therapist lives with them. And obviously I don’t know how many more years, and hopefully many more years for Mr. And Mrs. Santo, but at some point in time they’re going to need to have a little bit more extended care. And the original plan was to possibly extend their existing home to possibly, you know, make accommodations for their daughter to live there, not, excuse me, she lives here already, but to provide more accommodations, you know, better service for the parents. But just given the location of the home, it became really difficult because there’s a big drop. And so they were thinking then 5 EXHIBIT A