2017-04-10 Joint Meeting Exh A (Amend Commission Rules)

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homeless Hawaiians there are? That’s their land that you’re permitting other people to build on. I don’t understand. All right. Aloha. Thank you very much. UNGER: Thank you. Ken Melrose, Tom Madson. MELROSE: Aloha Members of the Commission. My name is Ken Melrose. I live in Kealakekua. I would like to offer some thoughts on Rule 15 and Rule 16. There are two parts, parts that are the same in each, in 15-4 and 16-6. These are the public notice, sending of the formal letters of notice. So, my experience in this in the past has always revolved around doing it to property owners, and when you develop those lists, you generally do it from the records of the Real Property Tax Office. So, the inclusion of lessees of record, I think, sets up a different standard for notification that could be problematic. So, I haven’t seen, and would ask that you either define the term, “lessees of record,” or have it be specifically those of record that are on, like property owners at the Real Property Tax Office. You would have memorandum of lease for an actual recorded lease in those situations. Otherwise, I think you would probably have to almost go as far as title search to find out who else to notify. So, the other is in 15-7 you eliminate, the proposal is to eliminate the 90-day period for the Commission to hold a hearing. It seemed to me that this is, Rule 15 is Project District, so I would think that it would be consistent across all zoning districts so that there should be a time or a definition of reasonableness in terms of how long before the hearing needs to be held. And, then, the last is on 16-10 of the Project District. This allows a Project District to have up to, to take a variance from the height requirements of a zoning district and go up to 75 feet. There are only, to my knowledge, the resort areas in Hilo and along the coast that allow higher than a 3-story, 45-foot height limit, so I think that there should be some caveats for the reasons for, that make it important to look at going to 75-foot height. And if the Commission is going to, the Department has seen and is going to, and the Commission is going to see P.U.D.s now, staff has said the most of them are on residential or on Ag land so that a 75-foot height limit would probably be inappropriate in those districts, and I would ask that you consider that. MADSON: Good afternoon. I’m Tom Madson, and I have been the president of Hualālai Colony Homeowners’ Association for the last eight years. As far as Rule 4 goes, I think enough has been said, and I agree with all the testifiers that, that the input should definitely be made. The other problem I have is notification to adjoining property owners. In one specific case, like we have near us in Hualālai Road, all the adjoining property owners are the people that are doing the development; they are notifying themselves. So, that’s why we need I think more input with Rule 4. As far as traffic and safety, not approving P.U.D. because of traffic and safety, why let the process go all the way up the line to the City \[sic\] Council and then they disapprove it, because 25 EXHIBIT A