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

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ground don’t always match up, so this should actually be shifted up slightly so that encompasses, the northern, or northwestern, boundary would be approximately here. At any rate you can see the quarry area and some quarry materials, as well as, difficult to see here, but there’s some older structures related to the quarry, some, an old shop and some Matson container storage and an old wooden building that are considered temporary and are not really used at this point. The applicant submitted this as a part of their site plan. Again, the subject parcel is outlined in red. The road is coming up here in this case from Māmalahoa Highway toward the top of the parcel. As you can see here, indicated as Lot 26 is the original 91.827 acres that was approved under the 1990 Special Permit, and that was expanded in 2000 to the present 143.48 acres, which is now the permit area. That was subsequently subdivided in 2017 to basically have that so they can no longer expand that area, and they are not asking for an expansion in this amendment. Here’s some photographs of the intersection of Māmalahoa Highway and the quarry access road looking south toward Kona, with the subject property again roughly three miles mauka. And on the bottom right you’ll see the intersection of Māmalahoa Highway and the quarry access road looking north toward Waimea, with the subject property mauka to the right. I just wanted to quickly go over the authority. Since the Special Permit is for property greater than 15 acres, the final authority for approval of a Special Permit is going to be with the State Land Use Commission. So the requested amendment to Special Permit 724, again, is for lands greater than 15 acres and requires approval of both the Planning Commission and the State Land Use Commission; therefore, the Planning Commission’s action will be to either approve or deny the request. In the case of approval, the requested amendment will then go up to the Land Use Commission who would then render a final decision as to the time extension. Should you deny their requested amendment, it’s considered denied and would no longer, you know, go to the next step. With that in mind the Planning Director is recommending approval of the amendment request. We did vary slightly from the suggested language of the applicant’s, however, just to clarify some things, bring it up to the current ownership, and ran this language by the applicants, and they seem okay with it, as it kind of does the same things that they were looking for. I’ll just read that to you here: “The life of this Special Permit shall run coterminous with the current least between PR Mauna Kea LLC and West Hawai‘i Concrete, Ltd., which terminates on September 30, 2037. Any extension to the life of this Special Permit beyond the current least shall require the approval of the Planning Commission and the State Land Use Commission.” Also to note, we deleted, or are suggesting deletion of some conditions that have been completed, so this is now going to be Condition No. 5 instead of the original Condition No. 7. With that, I’ll be happy to answer any questions that the Commission may have. UNGER: So your deletions on your report have already been done? KAY: Yes, correct, they’ve, they are conditions that have already been complied with — UNGER: Okay. 3 EXHIBIT B