2015-03-05 HearingTranscript - Moaniala Holdings LLC REZ 738

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MOSES: Good morning. 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: Yes, I do, Ma‛am. MOSES: Thank you. You may begin your presentation or testimony by first stating your name and place of residence, and speaking directly into the microphone. FUKE: Thank you very much Madam Chair. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consultant, and I’m here assisting with the processing of these amendments. I’d like to acknowledge the presence of the owner/developer. His name is James Pappas, as well as his associate, James Lee. They’re seated over there. So, if you have questions that I cannot answer, then I’ll direct it to them. I’d like to first acknowledge that you know, your staff’s presentation is excellent as always, and I really gotta compliment Maija cause you know it’s, it’s somewhat like of a complicated you know request, but she understood the request very well and you know came forward with recommendations and modified some of the proposed conditions that, to which the Applicant has reviewed all of them and has found them to be acceptable. I’d like to just kind of touch very briefly on some of the items that you know she mentioned, and, and to expand just a few others just for purpose of, purposes of clarification. The project is called Hilo Hillside and it’s a 143 one-acre lot subdivision. They completed the first phase which is like consisting of 56 lots. Phases 2 and 3 are still kind of pending. You know, the reason they’re pending is for couple of reasons. One is that the zoning condition required performance by “x” period of time, and obviously that time expired, and secondly, although the water system is all already in place, the Water Department has said that until this Kūkūau- Pi‛ihonua Transmission system, which is indirectly related to the project is, is completed, that additional water coming through the system would not be available, so that’s, that project is already funded and it’s, they’re going through the environmental assessment process and hopefully within the next three to five years, the project would be completed at which time the subsequent phases can be completed. I passed out you know the map and it, all of which I think I’ve included with the exception of the first one. The first map is really, when the property was rezoned back in 1993, you know way back when, the Puainako Street Extension was not completed, but it was projected to be the Sunrise Estates Increment No. 2, so this is the map that was produced as part of the traffic impact study prepared in conjunction with that application. The idea was that they were going to have like access through the existing Sunrise Ridge Subdivision through Kūkūau Street and eventually getting, getting to over here. So, there, the owners then, the current owners acquired the property in the early 2000’s. So after they acquired the property, what happened was that then the County started to actively pursue the construction of the Puainako Street Extension, and so, that created a lot of delay because you know the Puainako Street Extension, a portion of it bisected the property. There was a lot of 5 EXHIBIT A