2015-10-22 Leeward Exh A (SMA 15-060)

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Commission on this application. Just to summarize, the Planning Director and the applicant requested, or were in agreement, for a continuance to be able to resolve some issues regarding the application. Mainly these issues included public access and the location of the certified shoreline, as well as questions regarding the educational zone, or the school safety zone. For the past month there have been discussions between the applicant and the Planning Department, and the Planning Director has come to an agreement and has been able to release an approval recommendation, and this has been passed out to the Commission. It’s quite extensive, and we feel that it has addressed the unresolved issues that were pending. Just to briefly touch upon it, the main issues that were unresolved are basically discussed in detail from Pages 10 through 12; so you will see a lot of the information regarding those issues in there. I wanted to just take one second to also bring to your attention a simple typo that we will take care of, and that’s on Page 12 in the first paragraph on Line – one, two, three, four, five, six – seven; it says, “should be will be” and we’ll be removing “should be” that’s in the beginning of the sentence. So the sentence should read, “With these conditions in place, the public access concerns of the DLNR and the CRC will be adequately balanced with the legal requirements for preservation of cultural and historic elements at the property under Article XII, section 7 of the Hawai‘i State Constitution, and the Objectives and Policies of HRS Sections 205A-2(b)(2)(A) ‘Historic Resources.’” To bring to your attention, part of the resolution there is two aspects, main aspects, of this project. One is the demolition of the former Keauhou Beach Hotel, and during the particular time frame the Planning Director is recommending that the applicant submit an interim public access plan, and this is under Condition 4. Obviously, during those times there is going to be issues of safety not only for people on the project site but to the general public that traverses makai of the shoreline, and for safety reasons there will be areas of restriction, and these will be identified within this plan. This plan will be through a review and approval by the Planning Director as they proceed with the demolition project itself. Right now they’ve been granted approval for soft demolition, which is mainly interior removal of the hotel. Condition 5 states that “Within twelve months from the date of the approval of this SMA \[Special Management Area Use\] Permit and prior to the submittal of plans for plan approval \[review\], the applicant shall submit a comprehensive public access plan for review and approval by the Planning Director in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources. In addition to the specific public access components represented by the applicant within the Final Environmental Assessment and its SMA Use Permit application, the public access plan shall also include the delineation of public access pathways and parking stalls, signage, operational hours, night-time fishing procedures, and related improvements and operational details. The applicant shall provide no less than ten on-site public access parking stalls.” So again, we are looking at two different plans: An interim plan and a more comprehensive plan once the demolition of the hotel and construction for the new project begins. There also is Condition 6 that I can bring to your attention and in reference to the map that we have on our presentation. Again, previously we had mentioned what is agreed upon as the current shoreline for the approval purpose, and that is identified on this map as the red line. This is referred to in the Recommendation, as well as the Background, as the 2014 preliminary State DLNR survey. The agreement was through the waiver of the submittal of a more formal certified shoreline survey in 2 EXHIBIT A