2016-03-03 Hearing Transcript - Milo Street Ventures SLU 15-045 REZ 15-197

Home

NISHIMURA: That’s correct. HEAUKULANI: Can I get staff to I guess give us the position of the Department in your basis for Condition of Approval G, Jeff? DARROW: Sure, thank you, Mr. Chairman. When an applicant comes before the Planning Commission and the Council to request a Change of Zone to a higher density type zoning, we take into consideration infrastructure improvements that would be needed that would be able to handle the additional high density of that particular zoning. There are standards, roadway standards, for Industrial zoning. We’re just simply reflecting those. If I can defer, refer you to our memorandum received from the Department of Public Works which is our Exhibit No. 4, they’re asking for the properties’ frontage to be improved with pavement widening with curb, gutter, and sidewalk and drainage improvements, so they wanted actually a higher standard for this particular application. And, not only this one, but others as well on Milo Street. In the past, understanding this unique situation of the privately owned road by Shipman and the circumstances that it puts on the applicants to improve to these standards, we’ve, we’ve actually recommended that it be brought down to a lesser standard which is the paved swales, and that would be in our Exhibit No. 3. It kind of gives you an indication of the two different standards that we look at. Industrial zoning does call for a 60-foot wide right-of-way, which at this time, as mentioned, it’s approximately 40 feet. So, as well as the applicant across the street which came in, in 2004, they were required to do a future road widening setback and improvement similar to this application of ten feet. And, so we’re just asking for the same thing. In talking with the County, you know, the process is for the County to accept the roadway for dedication, the road has to be built to dedicable standards. Unless the County builds it, they’re not going to come in and build it and then, and then take it over. It has to be built to dedicable standards. So, it doesn’t seem very likely that in the near future, or far future actually, that this road is going to be built to dedicable standards by any other than either Shipman, the landowner of the private roadway, and/or the applicants that own properties along the roadway. So, again, with—with the request of the higher use, there comes infrastructure considerations that have to be met. HEAUKULANI: Thank you, Jeff. Commissioners, any questions for—I’ll leave it open—for either the Applicant or for staff on this matter? IKEDA: Mr. Chairman? HEAUKULANI: Commissioner Ikeda. 6 EXHIBIT A