2018-10-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SPP 1247)

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intersection, and abutting the Nani Waimea Subdivision, Pu‘ukapu Homesteads, South Kohala, Hawai‘i, TMK (3) 6-4-017:portion of parcel 64. JACKSON: Thank you, Chair Unger. Can you hear me? Okay, the next item on the agenda is a request by RT’s Service, LLC to amend their Special Permit No. 1247. The subject property is shown on this slide by the red dot. It is on the east side of Waimea Town. And you can see Māmalahoa Highway running east-west through the middle of the slide, and the subject property is located in this area here. Special Permit No. 1247 was issued in 2004 to allow offices 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 a five-acre parcel. The permit was amended by the Planning Commission in 2010 to extend the five-year permit life, and then in 2011 and 2015, the applicant applied to amend the permit but withdrew both of those requests. And, some of you may recall last year, the applicant came to the Commission and requested to amend the permit as well. The request was to remove the permit life and have the permit run with the current owner, increase the hours of operation to 24/7, and increase the number of stored vehicles on the property from 20 to 135, as well as increase the permit area to 1.647 acres. Those amendments were approved by the Planning Commission last year. So, the applicant is currently requesting the following three amendments to the Special Permit. The first one is to allow the after-the-fact operation of a motor vehicle and motorcycle inspection station within the existing unpermitted shop. According to the applicant, the inspection station for the motor vehicles has been operating for 15 years on the property, and the applicant obtained certification from State DOT to include motorcycle inspections; however, State DOT has temporarily suspended the inspection station until the Special Permit is amended to allow its operation. The inspection station will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, by appointment only, and it would be staffed by two existing employees certified by the State as safety inspectors. The applicant anticipates between eleven to 20 motor vehicles and one to five motorcycles would be inspected at the shop per month. The second request that the applicant has is to delete Condition Nos. 4 and 7. This is related to water usage and a County solid waste management plan. The reason they’re requesting to delete No. 4 is that the applicant has removed the unpermitted bathroom from the unpermitted shop, and has indicated it will not be reinstalled. Instead, employees will use the bathroom in a nearby farm dwelling. So, based on this, the applicant has indicated that water is not needed for the Special Permit uses, and that’s the reason for deleting Condition No. 4, which required that the applicant submit water usage calculations to the Department of Water Supply to determine if a larger water meter would be needed. The reason for the request to delete No. 7 is that the County Department of Environmental Management recently approved the applicant’s updated solid waste management plan in April of this year, so that permit condition has been met. 2 EXHIBIT B