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And then this is a view of the northern portion of the vehicle storage area. You have some earthen
<br />berm that’s covered in vegetation and again some ironwood trees, and then you can see a little bit of
<br />the house in the background here. And this view here is standing in the vehicle storage area looking
<br />back towards the gated entry and driveway, and you have the applicant’s personal garage on the left
<br />side and then the modular office trailer on the right side.
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<br />And this view is of the shop that the applicant uses to repair his business vehicles, and then the view
<br />on the bottom is the modular office trailer.
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<br />The Planning Director is recommending approval of three of the applicant’s requests that is to extend
<br />the hours of operation, to increase the number of vehicles stored on the property, and to increase the
<br />permit area. The Director is recommending denying the request to delete Condition 2 to remove the
<br />permit life and instead recommends amending the condition so that the permit expires upon the sale
<br />or transfer of the property by the landowner.
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<br />And I’ll just explain a little bit more of the reason for the denial request. When, just for a little bit of
<br />history and I’m sure the applicant will go into this as well but, when the applicant purchased the
<br />property, there was already a, I think it was a tow business on the property operating, it was
<br />Miranda’s, Miranda’s Towing, and that had received a Special Permit long time ago with a permit
<br />life. Miranda sold to Mr. McCullough and then he started his towing business and collection service.
<br />And, you know, for some time now the plans for Waimea have only shown industrial out by the
<br />airport, which is shown on this map here in the gray color. This is the airport here. And you can see
<br />Mr. McCullough’s property is in this location here. The east side of Waimea has really good soils for
<br />farming, and so even though there’ve been quite a few requests for like auto repair businesses
<br />popping up on the east side of Waimea, you know, the businesses are needed to serve the community,
<br />but the Commission over the years has wanted to try to redirect those businesses to the industrial
<br />area. The problem with that, though, is that the industrial area on our plans, even though zoned, it’s
<br />not actually a viable area at this time for industrial development because the waterline that goes out to
<br />this area is small; it’s too small to support industrial uses. So, even though the area has been zoned
<br />for industrial for about 25 years now, it’s just, it’s not viable for those uses. So, hence, that’s why
<br />we’ve continually added a five-year permit life onto these permits. Just recently, probably in the last
<br />eight years, some of these operations that have been coming in, they start out with a five-year permit
<br />life and then the Commission sees that there is no industrial areas in Waimea, so they end up
<br />eliminating the permit life. These are typically smaller operations, though; we have Deluz Auto
<br />Repair and then just east of Mr. McCullough’s property is an auto repair business called Cayetano, he
<br />is the owner. So, those both have had their permit life removed from their Special Permits. But, as I
<br />said, they are smaller scale than the applicant’s operation. So, you know, in light of the fact that the
<br />General Plan shows industrial in an area that’s not currently viable, the South Kohala CDP also
<br />shows industrial in this area. But, you know, also knowing that the applicant’s business really does
<br />serve a need for this community and, actually, the North Kohala District, South Kohala District and
<br />Hāmākua District all benefit from his towing services. So, with that in mind, the Director
<br />recommends allowing Mr. McCullough to continue to operate his business on the property, but when
<br />he sells the property or transfers ownership, then the use would cease.
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