2014-07-28 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

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1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE 2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA 3 southkohalaactioncommittee@gmail.com 4 County of Hawai’i 5 MINUTES 6 Meeting Date: July 28, 2014 7 Call to order: 5:45 pm 8 Place: Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center (Waimea Senior Center) 9 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway 10 Waimea, Hawai’I 96743 11 Roll Call: 12 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Christopher (Kit) 13 Roehrig, Joel Cohen, John Mueller, Roger Harris (arrived @ 5:45) 14 2Absent/Excused: John Hoover 15 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Ali Catalano 16 4County of Hawai’i: Margaret Wille 17 5Public in attendance: Clyde Matsunaga, Sierra Tobiason, Greg Mooers, 18 David Tarnas, Mike Luce, Gunner Mench, Kathryn Freitas, Anika Glass 19 20 At 5:05 pm Due to a lack of quorum at the beginning of the meeting the Action 21 Committee requested that the presentation be done for information. 22 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 23 Margaret Wille brought up the Lindsey Rd. extension, the coordination with Parker 24 Ranch, and an in-progress strategy. 25 PRESENTATION 26 Clyde Matsunaga from Imata and Associates Inc. did a presentation of the Planned 27 Unit Development Application for Mauna Kea Plantation Estates. 28 The bottom half of the land is said to be designated as urban expansion and the top 29 half is designated as extensive agriculture land. The main focus of the request for 30 this PUD is to preserve the watershed area. He discussed the input of the University 31 of Hawaii and the studies that have been done on the land. 32 Issues discussed:  33 843 total acres all of which are presently Ag-5. The general plan designates 34 the bottom half of the land as urban expansion and the top half as extensive 35 Ag land.  36 The reason for the request of a PUD is to preserve the watershed area.  37 The locations of two major entrances and exits.  38 The plan to drill amongst two or three wells, providing of portable irrigation 39 and that sewage will be among each lot individually.  40 Proposed studies by University of Hawaii on mango, sandalwood, hardwood, 41 and honeybees.  42 The proposed Kawaihae bypass road.