2019-03-07 Hearing Transcript - Wailani Development, LLC Amend REZ 10-117

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CLARKSON: If we're allowed to. So, this is a large, complicated project. My preference would be to just take these amendments, go quickly through the ones that we can all agree on as being reasonable either—and then try and get into the ones that cause disagreement. Okay, does any Commissioner wish to discuss Condition D which is the change, change in the number of residential units from 518 to 700? IKEDA: Can I speak on that? You know, that's one of the conditions that I don't support. What happened is this was kind of aI know it started before the Matsuura's bought the property. It belonged to Steve Yamashiro, and he was going to build a University Heights with 710 or 750 units and the community opposed that, and so the, the Council at the time lowered it to 518. So, that's the reason you got the number 518. It wasn't pulled out of a hat. And, so I thought it was pretty high at that time, but since it was passed and they are allowed 518, I would like to see that it doesn't change. I still say that at 518 because that's what the community really supported. So, I don't support that Condition D. CLARKSON: Any further discussion on Condition D? REPLOGLE: I have something. Somebody spoke earlier on this, and they said that even with the 700, it's under the permissible lots per area math or whatever you call it. CLARKSON: Density? REPLOGLE: And density, okay, yes, thank you. Would 700 be that much greater than five [hundred] in terms of density? I mean, I know it's bigger. CLARKSON: Forty percent. REPLOGLE: Okay, but they are sacrificing commercial area for that so CLARKSON: That's correct. REPLOGLE: It's somewhat of a tradeoff I just want to understand it good. IKEDA: Can, can I chime in? Okay, I think they were saying something like 35 per acre, so you can imagine you're going to put 35 acres on, 35 units on one acre. So, you're talking stories now. You're not talking about individual homes. You're talking about three stories or something like that. To go up because you need parking for all the apartments. And, that's what their talking about. It's not individual homes because I don't think you could put 35 homes on a one -acre parcel. YEE: I'll also chime in in that. You know, part of the difficulties in creating, increasing the housing supply on Hawaii Island is, you know, it's a supply issue that we have, and they're not just talking about low-income affordable homes, but, you know, they're talking market, too, but, you know, clearly their intention is to build more affordable homes for families, and in the bigger EXHIBIT C 24