2017-01-05 Hearing Transcript - Rhodes Moore LLC USE 16-065

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So, we have three options trying to accommodate it with the current easement or with some changes that easement, them accepting to use our driveway and, and planned access as well as whatever emergency access we have or an option to the south. The south would take some work because there is a channel that goes through there that we would need to put a little, we'd put a culvert on. CLARKSON: I have one more concern. I noticed that the perimeter of the main building, it's surrounded by parking and access roads, and there appears to be no landscaping designed into the project to separate the project from the neighbor to the south and the subdivision across the way to the east. I'm new here, but I've seen landscaping requirements to kind of buffer the visual impact of commercial buildings in our activities in the six months I've been on the Commission. I wonder if that would beoh, tell me, Maija, that it's in there already. JACKSON: It is in there. Do you, do you want me to describe the landscaping that would be required? CLARKSON: I actually would because— JACKSON: Yeah, it's not really shown on the plan. CLARKSON: Okay. JACKSON: So, the landscaping rule, the Planning Department landscaping rule requires that they install buffer yard landscaping around the perimeter of the property, and that would be from the ground to three feet high, completely solid, opaque. And, then from three feet high up to 20 feet, it would be intermittent landscaping. So, you could see through it from 3 feet to 20 feet. There would also be landscaping required for any parking areas so all along the perimeter of the road where it's not up against a property line, that would require landscaping. There are landscaping requirements for within the parking lots, and there are also landscaping requirements for any like generators or air conditioning units, garbage disposal areas, loading zones. There's additional landscaping for those areas as well. And, that is in Condition No. 5. CLARKSON: Thank you. JACKSON: You're welcome. CLARKSON: How would that, how would that landscaping requirement be affected by the easement, the driveway easement by the, along Kanoelehua. I mean, would there be any place for any landscaping along the main highway there? JACKSON: Well, I did talk to the Applicant, Mr. Yeh, this morning about, you know, I don't know the legality of whether they can place landscaping within an access and utility easement, so that's something that they'll have to consider. If it's not something they can do, then they would need to provide landscaping outside of the easement, so possibly move this building east a little EXHIBIT B 10