2016-10-06 Hearing Transcript - Paul Ogasawara REZ 16-207

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MOSES: Better, yes. JACKSON: Now? Okay, great. Thanks. Okay, the first application on your agenda is a rezone request. The Applicant is Paul Ogasawara, and the subject property is located in the Puna District right near Pahoa Village. You can see the property outlined in red towards the bottom of the slide. You have Pahoa Village Road running in a north -south direction on the left side of the slide, and then the Pahoa Bypass. And then Pahoa Village is right around here in the center of the slide. The property actually consists of two parcels. There's one "L" shaped parcel that you can see outlined in black. It's a split -zoned parcel. The north side of the parcel is already zoned CV -10, and the south side of the parcel is currently zoned RS -10. And, then also part of the request is a triangular-shaped parcel that is outlined in red here that's currently zoned RS -10. The surrounding zoning in Pahoa Village is all Village Commercial, and then across the street, you have the Catholic Church on land that's zoned Agricultural – 1 acre. And, then to the south is land that's zoned RS -10, and the Pahoa High School is actually in this area here on lands zoned RS. The General Plan designation for the property as well as the surrounding area is Medium Density Urban which allows Commercial zoning and a little bit higher density Residential. And, this is a map of the Puna CDP Pahoa Regional Town Center. You can see the general location of the properties is where this green dot is located so it's just outside of Pahoa Village, but still within the area designated for commercial community uses that's shown by the black dotted line here. And, this is an aerial photo of the property and surrounding area so the existing commercial portion of the lot has Paul's Gas Station. You may be familiar with Paul's Gas Station. That's been there a long time, and the gas station is right here. Then there's also like a little mini -mart in this structure here, an office building, and then an auto repair area in the back. So, the requested area to be rezoned is this strip of land to the south which is currently being used kind of as a driveway and for parking. And then, this triangular shape in the back here. Again, you have the Catholic Church to the east of the property. Pahoa Village to the west. The Applicant is requesting a Change of Zone from Single -Family Residential – 10,000 square feet to Village Commercial – 10,000 square feet for about 30,000 square feet of land. He's requesting the Change of Zone in order to confirm the existing gas station and auto repair activities that are already occurring on that strip of land that's zoned RS. It's—and, he's also requesting the Change of Zone to eliminate the split zoning of Parcel 20, as well as to be able to increase the auto repair area by expanding an existing open structure onto that triangular-shaped property to the south. 2 EXHIBIT A