2017-08-17 Leeward Exh A (AMEND SPP 1247)

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located in the South Kohala District, just east of Waimea Town. And to orient the Commission, you have Māmalahoa Highway running in an east-west direction through the bottom of the slide, White Road is located to the west about three streets over, and then the subject property is located off of Kauakea Road and is outlined in red. The current zoning for the property is Agricultural-5 acres, which is shown in the light green. The applicant received the Special Permit in 2004 to allow office and storage uses for investigative/collection services, towing service, and short term parking for repossessed or disabled vehicles on approximately 14,000 square feet of land. The permit had a five-year permit life in order to give the applicant time to relocate the business to an industrial-zoned property. On January 11, 2010, the Commission approved another five-year time extension to the permit life, which expired in January of 2015. The applicant submitted an amendment application in February 2015, but withdrew the applicant. And now here they are today with a new application to amend the permit. So they are currently requesting the following amendments: To delete Condition Number 2 in order to remove any time limit on the permit life so the operation can remain on the property in perpetuity; amend Condition Number 6 to extend the hours of operation to 24 hours, seven days a week – the current hours of operation are limited to between 6:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; and to increase the number of vehicles that can be kept in the vehicle storage facility from the current level of 20 to 135 vehicles, including five company vehicles; and lastly, to increase the Special Permit area from approximately 14,000 square feet to 1.647 acres. This is the applicant’s site plan. You have Kauakea Road on the right side of the slide. The driveway is in this general location here. There is a gated entry for security purposes. The applicant’s home is located in this area and he has, I believe, two or three garages. And then you can see the Special Permit areas outlined in black. It excludes the home and it extends over towards Nani Waimea Subdivision and then back towards Kauakea Road. This large structure here is a shop that the applicant uses to repair the company vehicles. And then just to the east of that is a modular office trailer and then the vehicle storage area is kind of shown in the shaded color in this area here, which is gravel. So, it’s not shown on the site plan, but there is – I lost my pointer, let’s try again, there we go, okay – so, it’s not shown on the site plan, but around the perimeter of the shaded gravel parking area is an earthen berm and it extends all the way from here along this area in this general area, then up to the top. And I will show you that in just a moment here. So, these are some photos taken back in 2015 of Kauakea Street. The view on the left is looking north, and you can see the driveway on the left side. You can also see that there are some ironwood trees along the property line for screening. And the photo on the left, I’m sorry, on the right shows the view standing near the driveway looking towards Māmalahoa Highway, which is in the background. Again, you can see the landscape hedge along the property line. These are photos of the vehicle storage area. The photo on the left shows the south side; so this is standing kind of in the middle of the vehicle storage area looking towards Māmalahoa Highway. So, you can see the high earthen berm in the background. And then the next view is looking towards the Nani Waimea Subdivision. Again, you can see the earthen berm, as well as some ironwood trees. 2 EXHIBIT A