2016-07-07 Hearing Transcript - Hilo Medical Center REZ 14-175

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what if it's a gas station or McDonald's or whatever. You know, and so I can understand that, but it's unfortunate that there's not a processing vehicle that's like a Use Permit that would say yes, you know, this would be exclusively only for a certain use, but, you know, we don't have that ability. But, we're open to any suggestions that the Commissioners or the Director may have or the Department may have in terms of how you can tie down or enable the public to review on uses other than a parking lot for, associated with the facility. HENKEL: Any other questions for the Applicant? Thank you very much. You may be seated. MIYASATO: Chair, excuse me, could we take a five-minute recess, please? HENKEL: Yeah, let's recess for five minutes, please. MIYASATO: Thank you. Chairman Henkel called a recess at 10:17 a.m., and the meeting was reconvened at 10:25 a.m. HENKEL: Let's go back into session. It's time for the public testimony portion of thisI'm sorry, Commissioner Clarkson? CLARKSON: Yes, I still have a question. I don't know whether Corp. Counsel or maybe the Planning Director can answer, but it goes back to the original zoning of the property on which the medical center is now located. And, I just wanted to find out if at the time the rezone from Residential -7.5 to the Commercial was made, whether as part of that rezone, there were mitigative measures as part of the application for rezone that were promised between the rezoned property and the residential properties fronting Punahele Street. I'm just curious about whether any of that was involved between the rezoned property and the existing residential. JACKSON: I can try to answer that question for you, Commissioner. If you look at your package, Exhibit 4 is actually the ordinance from when the medical office property was rezoned back in 1995, and that ordinance has some mitigation measures above and beyond what the Department and Commission would normally require. There's one—there's one, let's see. That's it. You just found it. So, if you turn to Page 4, Condition B, there was a 50 -foot structural setback requirement along the northwest property boundary and that's above and beyond CLARKSON: —Which condition was that? JACKSON: Condition B, yeah, the second sentence. There's also the third sentence, required a minimum 6 -foot high privacy wall or landscape buffer between the property and the adjoining single-family residential properties along Punahele. And—let's see what else—and then Condition D has that access restriction. Access to the subject property from Punahele Street shall not be permitted. So, that, that meant no connection through the medical office property through the subject property under the current rezoning now to Punahele Street. 14 EXHIBIT C