2014-07-03 Hearing Transcript - LK&RR Enterprises, LLC REZ 14-174

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MIYASATO: Thank you, Jeff. Would the applicant or representative please come forward? Could you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? FUKE: I do. KUNIMITSU: Yes. MIYASATO: State your name and residence. KUNIMITSU: Lee Kunimitsu, 1039 Pukana Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i. FUKE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a Planning Consultant. I am assisting Mr. Kanemitsu [sic] who is the, one of the applicants. My business address is 100 Pauahi Street, Suite 212. MIYASATO: Go ahead. FUKE: Sure. Mr. Chairman, I think your staff’s report is rather comprehensive. The proposed conditions are also acceptable. As the staff had indicated, the property is pretty much bounded by quasi-commercial type of uses. If you look on the south side, you would have like the Big Island Candies project, and a series of commercial restaurant complex. On the west side, there’s this new Tokunaga Fishing—a store that just recently constructed and opened up. On the north side, you would have like Don’s Grill. There’s a credit union. And of course on the east side, the airport side, is a miscellaneous different type of commercial uses. All of the basic infrastructure is in. I mean like there’s a sewer system running, fronting the property. The water’s adequate. The applicant is willing and prepared to install the curb, gutters, and sidewalk. Your staff had indicated that the General Plan designation is Medium Density which the proposed zoning would be consistent with. And as your staff had also indicated, the evolving land uses in this area is a mixture of commercial quasi-industrial and residential activities so we believe that the proposed rezoning would be consistent with the evolving character of that area. Are there any—oh, one, one comment I’d like to make is that I usually contract the notices to surrounding property owner, and apparently in the initial notice you know which informs surrounding property owners that, of the filing of the application, there was one property owner that was inadvertently overlooked, and this was brought up to my office by the Planning Department subsequent to being notified. We then sent out—I arranged to have a separate notice sent out to that one individual. And the more important notice to surrounding property owner which is notifying all property owners of this upcoming hearing, that individual also was notified. Thank you. MIYASATO: Commissioners, any questions for the applicant? Thank you. Okay, we have one testifier for this, Arlene Kimura [sic]. Could you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? KIMATA: Yes. 3 EXHIBIT A