2014-07-03 Hearing Transcript - PD Initiated Amend Chap 25 PVD & Special District

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BROWN: Good afternoon. MIYASATO: Item No. 7 on the agenda, Planning Director ordinance amending Chapter 25. Go ahead. BROWN: Good afternoon, Commission Miyasato and Commissioners. My name is Larry Brown. I’m a planner in the Long Range Division of the Planning Department, and I’m here to present to you the two pieces of legislation being introduced to provide a process for community review of design guidelines for special districts that have design guidelines that have been or standards that have been adopted by the County Council either by resolution or by ordinance. You have two agenda items here that I’m going to be talking about within this one presentation cause they’re directly tied to each other, and that’s Item 7 and 8 or your agenda. The two pieces of legislation before you today are number one and number two in red, the design district plan review ordinance and the Pāhoa Village Design District ordinance, and they’re part of an overall package that includes two other pieces that will not be coming before the Planning Commission. And the number three is the Pāhoa Village Design Guidelines which are being introduced to the Council for adoption by resolution, and we’ll talk a little bit more about those in a minute. The Pāhoa Village signs ordinance which is an amendment to Chapter 3, the Sign Code, is going to be introduced concurrent with these ordinances to the Council once they pass out of the Commission. The Windward Commission hears both items one and two. The Leeward Commission will only hear item no. 1 as it may have impacts island-wide. It worked--cool. So, the first one is the design review ordinance. I’ve just highlighted some of the features—the primary features—of this ordinance indicating that it will require review of development projects within any special district where adopted design guidelines or standards have been adopted by the County Council. It also amends application requirements for Plan Approval and for Planned Unit Development projects that will provide the additional information necessary to do design review because normal plans that are submitted don’t necessarily include the kinds of architectural drawings or color or building material type information that would typically be required under those Plan Approval or PUD permit applications. It also amends a process for requirements for Plan Approval and PUD applications that provide for a means of local community review and comment on proposed projects. And this is something that’s really important to the local communities where new development is occurring. They want to make sure that it fits in to their community, and so this is a means to give them a voice in that whole process. And, it also, well that’s actually going in to explain what number— the last bullet item was all about. Now, we do have, we found a glitch in the amend—in the proposed ordinance, and if you go to Section 25-2-71(h) which is a new section being proposed for this section of the Zoning Code, the intent was to not impact any existing special districts. There are only three others. One is the Kailua Village District, Special District; the Downtown Hilo Special District, and the third one is the University Special District. So, the Pāhoa would be the fourth one. 2 EXHIBIT G