2015-07-16 Leeward Exh B (SMA 10-039)

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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JULY 16, 2015 PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED REVOCATION A regularly advertised hearing on the OF SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA USE PERMIT NO. 10-000039 (SMA 10-039) was called to order at 9:43 a.m. in the West Hawai‘i Civic Center, Community Center, Building G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Brandi Beaudet presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Brandi Beaudet, Scott Church, Collin Kaholo, Barbara Nobriga, Sonny Shimaoka, Keith Unger and Thomas Whittemore ALSO PRESENT: Danny Patel (Counsel to the Commission), Duane Kanuha (Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Planner), Maija Jackson (Planner) and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary) And approximately 16 people from the public in attendance. INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR (SMA 10-039) Revocation of Special Management Area Use (SMA) Permit No. 10-000039 originally issued to Kawaihae Restaurant, LLC by the Planning Commission on May 3, 2010, to allow the establishment of a restaurant and commercial/recreational uses, facilities and activities consistent with the (Industrial- Commercial Mixed) MCX zoning on 1.32 acres in the Special Management Area. The property is located along the ocean (makai) side of Akoni Pule Highway just north of Kawaihae Harbor, South Kohala, Hawai‘i, TMK: 6-1-003:015. BEAUDET: Second item on today’s agenda, Initiator: Planning Director, SMA 10-039. JACKSON: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Planning Director is initiating this request because we received a letter from the State DLNR notifying us that the lease that DLNR had with Kawaihae Restaurant to develop this property was mutually cancelled. The reason for the cancellation was that the new FEMA Flood Maps came out and the area, the flood zone, moved further makai, I’m sorry, further mauka, and so it made the project infeasible to develop. So we have notified DLNR that we are going to request that the permit be revoked. And we have not received any communication from them opposing that to date. Just to let you know where the property is located, it’s in Kawaihae in the South Kohala District. It’s this little property here just north of the harbor. And the Kawaihae Canoe Club, I think their hale where they meet is in this area right here just to the south. The property is zoned MCX, Industrial-Commercial Mix. And this is an aerial view of the property. Again, you have the harbor in this area here at the end of Kawaihae Road, and then the property is located in this general area here. 1 EXHIBIT B