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

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limits would be applied. So thank you for the consideration of these comments, and I look forward to these revisions to the P.U.D. guidelines. Aloha. GIFFIN: Thank you. Commissioners, any questions of Ken Melrose? Hearing none, thank you, the three of you. LEITHEAD TODD: Madam Chair? GIFFIN: I’m sorry. Director. LEITHEAD TODD: I just wanted to clarify. I think, looking at some of the testimony coming in, it seems that, I think some people are looking at Bill 291 and not the bill that’s actually on our agenda today. So you’re going to have to take some of Ms. Nimori’s comments, which referred to 25-6-3 (F) are actually, in the current bill before your consideration, would be applicable to 25-6-3 (G) rather than 3 (F), because 3 (G) is where the reference to natural, historic, and cultural features; because the numbering and where certain language is in the two different versions of the bill are in different locations, so if you look at Ms. Nimori’s testimony, it would be to Page 3 of the proposed bill and it would be 25-6-3 (G). And then similarly, I think you need to double-check whether her reference to 25-6-7 (4) is applicable to this or needs to go to a different section. And that was the other thing is like Ms. Nimori’s comments about the 60 days, the current bill under consideration today changes it from 60 to 90 days and, as Mr. Melrose pointed out, changed it from an automatic approval to a denial, if we didn’t render a decision, and that was -. So it’s a significant difference. GIFFIN: Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions? Thank you. Thank you for being of assistance. I would like to call Mary Kay McInnis, Mac McInnis and Tom Madson. Please come forward. Good morning, and thank you. 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: Yes. GIFFIN: Thank you. Starting with you, ma’am, your name, and you may begin your testimony. M. K. McINNIS: My name is Mary Kay McInnis. Good morning, Members of the Commission. My name is Mary Kay McInnis. I live at 75-661 Hua‘ai Street, here in beautiful Kailua-Kona. I’ve heard a lot of interesting and meaningful testimony this morning. The opinion shared by Mrs. Error and Mrs. Nimori were considerable and expressed much more eloquently than I could offer to you this morning. Instead, I would ask the Commission a question, and ask if you would help in understanding the cumbersome and confusing process known as P.U.D. approval. I’ve heard the terms “transparency,” “public input” and “cooperation” batted about quite a bit today, and I think we can all agree ultimately that we’d all like to achieve this. So here is what concerns and confounds me. I do not think I’m going out on the limb when I say it concerns and confounds many of us. Using the example Mrs. Error alluded to earlier is the rezoning amendment bill 163, A- 5a to RS-10. This is TMK 7-5-017:042. This rezoning was approved. The P.U.D. was submitted and approved with 15 of 17 variances. Now, I’m not a real estate professional, I’m not a developer, 7 EXHIBIT A