2013-02-21 Leeward Exh A - Director Initiated Amend re PUD

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me – but Mrs. Nimori also submitted testimony, and she did provide copies and we’ve also distributed the testimony to you as well. GIFFIN: Thank you, Daryn. Anything else you want to add? ARAI: No. GIFFIN: Okay. Members of the Commission, any questions of Daryn? Daryn, I have a question. I know the result of our last action on Bill 291. Where is Bill 291 now as we speak? ARAI: The, 291 was heard by both the Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions. Both Commissions forwarded unfavorable recommendations on the bill. Those recommendations now reside at the County Council; however, we did ask the County Council to delay its hearings on Bill 291 so that your actions or decisions regarding the Director initiated P.U.D. bill can catch up to it, and that way they can at least consider both bills at the same time, which we think is a prudent thing to do. GIFFIN: Thank you. With that, because the applicant is really the Planning Director, and I know Daryn gave us a synopsis of your recommendation, I mean your background report, is there anything else, Director, you would like to add? LEITHEAD TODD: What we do now with all applications that require notice to neighbors is we routinely send a, not a copy of the entire application, but a notice and a description of the application to our action committees. And then the action committees, if they are interested, can put it on their agenda and have a presentation done, and then make comments on that. We’ve done that twice with South Kohala with the Puakō 1010 P.U.D., as well as the Waiki‘i P.U.D. And that seems to be working out. That’s not something, though, that’s specifically written in our rules or in the code; that’s just a practice that, we reached an agreement, because what we were doing previous to that was we would do, like,twice a month, we would list the subdivision applications, and the feedback we had from the action committees was they didn’t feel that they had enough time from the time of the general public notice to decide whether they were going to put it on their agenda since they only meet once a month. So now it’s routinely sent to them at the same time that it goes out to the other agencies for comment, and that was agreement reached in terms of trying to provide them notice and give them an opportunity. And I might note that despite having gone through the process and despite having the action committee agree with the recommendations on the P.U.D., we still have one that’s going up on an appeal to Board of Appeals. GIFFIN: Okay, Commissioners, any questions of, in this instance, the applicant who is our Planning Director? Hearing none, this morning there are – one, two, three, four, five – six people who have signed up to testify. And I would like to remind members of the public that if you have not and you would like to give public testimony this morning, please go up to the staff and indicate such. Imminently, I would like to please call Tomoe Nimori, Normita Error – if I’m mispronouncing your name, please, I’m sorry in advance – and Ken Melrose. Please come up. Thank you. And thanks, Ken, for helping the ladies. Will you please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. 4 EXHIBIT A