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

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burden from, you know, like the affected property owners or the complaining property owner. So, that's all kind of reflected in the agreement. Anyway, like as I was just saying, then toMaija, can you pass the proposed recommendation? So, I guess like all we're asking right now is that, you know, we tried our best and so we're prevailing upon the Planning Commission if you were to look at this area like an area in transition like House Lot because we say like it's an area in transition because it's not all residential. This is not the first commercial related activity here. You have the correctional facility right across the street. You have the Hilo Medical—you have the surgery center. You have like just across the street, too, is the undeveloped Project District for the Wailani Project. So, I guess like what we're asking is whether, you know, for the Commission, you know to consider this application favorably and to look and ask yourself like, you know, the questions that you normally ask yourself whenever you go through any zone change. You know, like first of all, you ask yourself whether it's consistent with the General Plan, and in this case, it is consistent with the General Plan LUPAG Map. It's a Medium Density designation. You ask yourself the question about the infrastructure; whether water is needed or a sewer line is needed, and the roadway needs to be improved and so on and so forth. And to all of that like, you know, what we're trying to demonstrate is that, yes, you know like water's available, and the sewer line is fronting the property. If there is a need for a sewer, there is. And, they're gonna make their proportionate share of roadway improvements to Punahele. Other questions you always ask yourself is like whether there are environmental considerations, cultural considerations, archaeological considerations. And, on this 10,000 -square foot property, there are none. You ask yourself whether there are any drainage issues. There is no drainage issue on this property. And, you ask yourself well, whether there is a need. And, I think as Ms. Shiroma kind of pointed out, there is definitely a need, you know, for a project of this naturea supportive project of this nature. So, I guess like, you know, because it's an area of transition, then, you know, you have to ask yourself always like in the Waiakea House Lot area, you have to ask yourself about impacts and whether they are reasonable mitigation, and we say that, you know, there are some reasonable mitigation that can be taken, and I've passed out a proposed recommendation because obviously one way or another, if the Commission recommends favorably, we go favorably, there has to be some justification behind a favorable reason, so what I used was that—you know, this is a report that was prepared and handed out to the Commission way back when. A recommendation for approval. So, I used this as the template and prepared what was just handed out to you and made some slight modifications to that both in the reasoning, you know, behind the recommendation for approval. And, if you go back towards the conditions, having all of the different kind of conditions that, that address those things that we've represented on, you know, right now, and as well as like on paper earlier, you know, dealing with the signage, no back up enforcement provisions, and so on and so forth. The proposed recommendation on behalf of the Applicant and the conditions of approval, just to make it easier, I had—if you look at the underscored and italicized version, that's, those are the 9 EXHIBIT C