November 2, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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(including park and ride areas), and parks (including pocket and art parks, and outdoor amphitheaters), etc. ldentifieExamples of underutilized parcels owned by the County are: ■ Honoka'a: TMK 4-5-005:010 on the corner of Mamane and Puakolo. ■ Papa'aloa: TMK 3-5-003:035 next to the Papa'aloa Gym. ■ 'O'okala: TMK 3-9-001:026 (Currently zoned Industrial) & TMK: 3-9-001:034 (between 'O'okala town and Highway 19." New Community Action listed as 23 on page 13 in Revision Document #3 as presented: New Community Action: "Promote the collaborative development use, and management of community gardens in towns and neighborhoods." Second by Mr. Neff. Motion passed with 7 votes aye and 0 votes nay. c. No other CDP revisions were considered based on new information presented. 3. Affirmation of Minor Edits to the Draft CDP: Working from "Review Document #2: Proposed Minor Edits for the January 2016 Draft CDP," the CDP Planning Team facilitated a brief discussion by the Steering Committee geared toward a preliminary decision to affirm all non -substantive edits to the Draft CDP. Mr. Neff moved to approve Review Document #2 and allow Planning Department staff the ability to continue making non -substantive edits to the Draft Hamakua CDP. Second by Ms. Mendoza. Motion passed with 7 votes aye and 0 votes nay. NEXT STEPS: Friday, December 2, 2016 was suggested as the next meeting date. All Steering Committee members in attendance (7) confirmed their availability. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS: There was one person who signed up to testify. 1. Steve Shropshire, representing himself, speaking on Papa'ikou Makai — Land Use Policy: Thank you. I know it's late, 1'11 try to be brief. I own a parcel of land — Papa'ikou, it's parcel 2-7- 004:025. It's a 76 acre oceanfront parcel. The State Use — the State Land Use designation is — is Agriculture and Conservation. The General Plan, the zoning is currently Ag -20 and the LUPAG is currently Low Density Urban. So, as you may be aware, the current draft of the CDP is proposing to change the LUPAG designation from Low Density Urban to Important Agriculture. So, I wanted to share with you a different approach that, something I'd like you to consider in terms of your long range planning. We would like to build an affordable housing project on a portion of our land so our request to you is to consider holding back a portion of that in — in this current Low Density Urban designation because we — or, as we've heard earlier, one of the biggest obstacles for affordable housing is wastewater and codes of [inaudible]our wastewater facility in Papa'ikou is under — underutilized. We understand it's about 30 or 40 percent capacity. So, there's an opportunity to build affordable housing there on that site and it meets — meets many of the goals of the Community Development Plan, at the least of which Objectives 5 Page 19