2018-06-21 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SPP 724, LUC SP 90-374)

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residences to this area are approximately one and a quarter miles further mauka, and this is the Department of Hawaiian Homelands Pu‘ukapu Pasture Lots. The applicant is requesting an amendment to Special Permit No. 724, LUC Docket No. 90-374, which was originally approved in 1990 and amended in 2000 to allow for the operation of a quarry and related uses on approximately 143.48 acres of land situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The applicant is requesting a time extension to run coterminous with the lease between the applicant and WHC, Ltd. doing business as West Hawai‘i Concrete, which expires on September 3, 2037. West Hawai‘i Concrete has been successfully operating a quarry on the property since 1972, and wishes to continue those operations at least until 2037. There are approximately eight million tons of material remaining in the quarry to be mined. West Hawai‘i Concrete currently supplies all their concrete aggregates out of the quarry on the property, therefore ceasing operation would cause disruption to the local construction market. Additionally, the rock source on the property is unique, as it is the only quarry that West Hawai‘i Concrete utilizes, which produces rock aggregate that does not result in alkali silica reactivity in the finished concrete products; this is a condition which occurs when concrete is exposed over time to wet conditions causing it to expand and results in premature concrete failure. The applicant is proposing a proposed language for the amendment of Condition No. 7. The proposed additional language is underlined and the proposed deletion is bracketed and struck through. I’ll read it as it would read: “The life of this Special Permit shall run coterminous with the Parker Ranch lease, which terminates on September 30, 2037. Any amendments to the terms of the lease with Parker Ranch, which extend the term of the lease beyond September 30, 2037, shall be submitted to the Planning Commission and the State Land Use Commission for approval.” The applicant also proposes deleting the following footnote from Condition No. 7 as the proposed language above addresses the footnote requirements. And the footnote reads, “Any extension to the life of the Special Permit beyond the term of the current lease, which expires on September 30, 2017, would require the approval of both the Planning Director and the State Land Use Commission. See attached letter dated May 1, 2000, from the applicant to Esther Ueda, Executive Officer, State Land Use Commission.” The County zoning for the subject parcel and surrounding area is Agricultural-40 acres as indicated in the blue color. The State Land Use Boundary designation for the subject parcel and surrounding area is Agricultural, and the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designates the majority of the parcel as Extensive Agriculture with a small portion is Important Agricultural Lands. Here’s some aerial photographs of the subject parcel. On the left hand side is a zoomed-out view that shows, again, Māmalahoa Highway running generally north and south through the slide, and then the 20-foot wide concrete asphalt paved access road to the subject parcel, which is outlined in blue. On the right hand side it’s zoomed in a little bit, again, outlined in blue is the subject parcel. There is a situation with our aerial photography where the parcel lines and what’s on the 2 EXHIBIT B