2015-05-21 Leeward Exh A (Amend SPP 538)

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UNGER: Okay. Thank you. DARROW: Thank you. BEAUDET: Any further questions, Commissioners? Okay. Will the applicant or their representative please come forward? If you could both raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Planning Commission? REPRESENTATIVES: Yes. BEAUDET: If you could introduce yourself and speak clearly into the mike. FUKE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consultant here assisting the applicant. HEAD: Good morning, everybody. Thank you for your time. My name is Scott Head. I’m a representative for WDC Properties, LLC, at the address of 150 Waikoloa Beach Drive. Thank you. FUKE: Mr. Chairman, I think, as always, your staff’s report is very comprehensive and on point. The staff’s proposed conditions were reviewed both by the applicant as well as the operator, Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, and found to be acceptable. However, I’d like to just kind of respond to some of the questions that the Commissioners have raised. First, you know, in regards to the annual report, that’s really like on point, I think, which I failed to include in my background report. One was filed on November 21, 2014, with the Planning Department. So they have been, WDC has been current in terms of addressing the annual report requirement. And one of the issues that, one of the basis for such an annual report is just to be able to alert the public, you know, through the Planning Commission and the Planning Department, whether there are any complaints associated with the operations at the heliport, and if there are, if you notice that one of the existing conditions, Condition No. 11, enables the Planning Director through the Planning Commission to kind of re-review, you know, the whole operations and see whether there is a need to have further amendments to the Special Permit. The other thing relating to the intersection issue, what State Highways is referring to essentially is like the full channelized intersection at that point in time, the obligation to construct the makai portion of the particular intersection rests with either WDC or with Hilton Grand Vacation; but that project has been kind of like temporarily on hold right now, but if and when the project develops, then there is the obligation to construct a fully, you know, four-way signalized traffic intersection. But as the staff had indicated, I don’t think that that would implicate, or have any direct implication to the access to the helicopter operation. Finally, in terms of the future land use plans, yes, I did send notices to surrounding property owner, and, you know, in this particular situation almost all of the properties are either owned by the applicant, with only one exception; the property immediately adjacent to the heliport and also across the street on the Kohala side of Waikoloa Road are owned by Waikoloa Mauka Development. And so these are formerly owned by WDC; they were subsequently sold to Waikoloa Mauka. I sent 4 EXHIBIT A