November 2, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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There were three people who signed up to testify. [Please note that all testimony has been recorded exactly as presented.] Marissa Harman, representing Kamehameha Schools, providing testimony on agenda item 1a — Pauka'a Mauka: Aloha, good evening. On behalf of Kamehameha Schools, I'm submitting testimony again on the Pauka'a map as a follow up to your last Steering Committee meeting. I won't be reiterating any points made earlier in testimony. However, I'd like to provide some new information for your consideration. I'd like to address the concerns of the Steering Committee that KS could potentially develop these lands and sell them. Our lands at Pdhoehoe — are legacy lands for our trust — they were originally bequeathed to Princess Pauahi by Victoria Kamdmalu. It is our practice to keep our legacy lands in perpetuity for the future benefit of our ldhui. If KS were to pilot an affordable farm worker housing project, the units would be for rent or lease and not for sale in fee. Also, at your last meeting, some of your Steering Committee members as well as staff planners asserted that there are existing tools that would allow KS to accomplish its agriculture and support infrastructure goals such as affordable farm worker housing. In a follow up meeting with the County Planning Department last week, we were able to determine the following problems with the existing tools. For agriculture project districts, State Land Use Law limits and basically dictates the density to no more than one residence per one acre. So essentially kind of supporting that, the larger gentleman type ag estates. The same goes for planned unit development, limited by State Land Use Law and also, we looked at additional farm dwelling units but the current ordinance was vague around whether or not the labor that justifies an additional farm dwelling unit needs to come from that parcel or if they can be tied to a nearby farm. Additionally, there's no clear definition of employee housing which is further complicated by the fact that KS itself would not be the employers of these farmers — our lessees would, so kinda not applicable to us. And also, the additional farm dwelling unit does not support clustered model. It's basically one unit per number of hours of labor and ag farm lot subdivisions residential use is strictly prohibited. So, those are the existing tools in County Ordinance now. So, based on information above, it's clear that there are no existing tools that would allow KS or any other landowner the ability to provide clustered affordable farm worker housing which enables a larger landscape to be preserved. In conclusion, we ask that you consider our intentions, our track record and the lack of existing tools. For these reasons, I ask that you support the Planning Department's Option 2 that will be presented to you this evening. Mahalo. 2. Albert Nakaji, representing himself, providing testimony on Pauka'a Mauka: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I assume you can hear me. I wish to comment on the agenda item relating to Pauka'a Mauka. The Pauka'a community, I saw on the map, Pauka'a park. Pauka'a community is — if you look from Kaiwiki to Hakalau, the only community that does not have a park, a recreational facility. All other communities, Kaiwiki, Pepe'ekeo, Pdpa'ikou, Honomu — all have a park. Pauka'a is the only one that does not have a park. I do not reside in Pauka'a. I reside in Pdpa'ikou but I would strongly — strongly support the creation of a park there. Secondly, given that this may be the last meeting, I would like to say that while I've not come to the meetings very frequently, I have been monitoring the progress from the inception of the CDP and/ want to extend my sincere thanks to ALL of you— to all of you for such hard work. The effort, the time that you have taken to put into this effort — bringing together a multitude of ideas, conflicting and supportive of each other— very difficult, very difficult and you are to be Page 12