2013-11-07 Windward Transcript -Greenlaw

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This is a closeup view. Again, you can see Maku‘u Drive at the top left corner of the slide. And th you have 19 Avenue; and the four parcels that are the subject of the request are at the end on the mauka side. The General Plan designation for these properties is Rural. And the Rural designation allows community-type uses, as well as commercial uses that serve the immediate residents or the agricultural businesses or operations within the immediate area. And this is the Puna CDP map for HPP. Again, the Keaau-Pahoa Road on the left side of the slide; and then you have Maku‘u Drive coming off of there towards the sea. The subject property is located right around this area here where the red dot is at the bottom of the slide. So you can see, you’ve probably read our recommendation and you know that we are encouraging, the Puna rd CDP and the General Plan encourages light industrial uses be located along 33 Avenue near Maku‘u; and that’s this location right here. There are several baseyards for water businesses, rd water hauling businesses, as well as auto repair businesses along 33. Now this is an aerial photo of the subject properties. You can see the large State parcel on the Pahoa side. The map is actually a little bit off. This structure here is located entirely on the State property, and a portion of the structure as well is located on the State property. So the property consists of four one-acre lots that are adjacent to each other. And you can see there are residents located behind the properties and on the other side as well. So the applicants are requesting to allow the establishment of a satellite learning and education center, or school. This is a satellite school of HAAS (Hawai‘i Academy of Arts and Sciences) which has their main campus in Pahoa. And I think most of the members on this Commission also approved a special permit for Shady Grove about a year ago. You may be familiar with that. That was also a satellite of HAAS. So this is a very similar school. They’re also requesting a use permit for the water catchment tank business on the four acres. So as a little background, both of these businesses, as well as the applicant’s vacation rental business, have been operating on the property for I’d say more than 20 years. So they’re coming in now to legitimize those uses that have been existing for quite some time. Specifically they’re asking for up to 44 students from kindergarten to grade 6, and the school is known as Paradise Hui Haumana, and then the water catchment tank and pool services business known as Paradise Pools. So this is the applicant’s site plan. It’s an actual survey of their property, so it depicts the exact location of the structures. You can see there’s a water tank here located on the adjacent State property. That other structure that was in the aerial photo, the applicants have already removed that structure. So the only structures remaining on the State property as far as I know are the water tank here and then a portion of this structure here, which is the garage and storage building that’s used for the applicant’s water tank catchment business. So you have the water tank catchment business here on this property, this is lot, I’m sorry, Parcel 57. There’s a pool located in this area that straddles these two properties. And then in this general location there’s a large 2 EXHIBIT A