2018-08-16 Leeward Exh A (AMEND SPP 08-064)

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UNGER: Please state your name and area of residence. Please speak into the mic for the minutes. Thank you. FUKE: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Sidney Fuke. I’m a planning consult and my residence is in Hilo, Hawai‘i. With me this morning, you know, are two individuals: One is the Hawai‘i Island manager for the Goodfellow Brothers Incorporated and the other one is Ms. Leilani Pulmano whose company kind of helps oversees much of the Goodfellow Brothers operation among other things. We’ve had a chance to review the staff’s report and proposed conditions, and again, because the report is so comprehensive, it kind like makes my job relatively easier. I understand there are some questions, but before responding to the specific question, I’d like to kind of re-summarize, you know, the general background, as well as what the applicant is actually requesting. Back in 1993 there was a Special Permit issued, you know, for a quarry on 220 acres of land, and at that time the entire parcel consisted of about 3,000-plus acres of land. Because that permit exceeded 15 acres, then the permit was actually recommended for approval by the local commission and then subsequently ratified by the State Land Use Commission. At that time for that Special Permit for the quarry, the life of that permit was good until the Year 2018. And a number of years ago the applicant for the quarry, they sought and received a time extension, you know, from the Land Use Commission, and the time extension was extended the life of the quarry operation to the Year 2043, because that was generally the life of the lease that the quarry operator had with the landowner, with the fee owner. Then in 2008 Goodfellow Brothers came in requesting an area of about 14 acres to establish a baseyard adjacent to where the quarry is. That was granted by the local Planning Commission; it didn’t have to go before the Land Use Commission because the area was less than 15 acres. The permit on the other hand had a condition that tied the life of that permit to the life of the quarry permit, which was until the Year 2018. So 2018 December is kind of like right around the corner, so now they are asking for an extension of their quarry operation. Back in 2008 – you remember I was talking about like the 3,000-acre parcel that the quarry site and then this, the baseyard facility was originally part of – well, in 2008 the landowner then created a three-lot subdivision: One consisting of several-thousand acres; and then another one, you know, 934 acres; and they created a 240-acre parcel that’s currently houses the quarry operation of 220 acres and the baseyard facility. So the baseyard and essentially the quarry now are on a separate individual parcel. So that parcel, you know, you have a landowner and then you have one tenant, which is the quarry, and you have another tenant, which is the baseyard operators, I mean a, yeah, the baseyard operators. So what the applicant now is requesting for two things: One is to be able to establish a concrete/asphalt batching plant, and as staff had indicated, there is a need for that, you know, to not only service, because, you know, like, Goodfellow Brothers did the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway extension, they do a lot of road improvements that also generate the need for asphalt/concrete; and in addition to that, they are also seeking a time extension. As far as the time extension, the staff’s proposal was to have it kind of tied in with the life of the Special Permit for the quarry. That’s kind of like understandable and it was really good. The only thing is that if you get tied in with the life of another permit, if for some reason that other permit misbehaves, the permittee misbehaves, and the Land Use Commission, so-called like, it nixes it 4 EXHIBIT A