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From: mak221
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 3:22 PM
To: Evans, Cynthia F.W.; Galimba, Michelle M.; Inaba, Holeka; Kagiwada, Jennifer; Kanealii-
Kleinfelder, Matt; Kierkiewicz, Ashley; Kimball, Heather; Lee Loy, Sue;Villegas, Rebecca;
Council Testimony; Command, Robert H; County of Hawai'i Planning Department
Subject: This development is illegal (pond! conservation!wetland!) and outrageous. I know
you can't be serious about this. Mark
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Attachments: PD Background Report (PL-SMA-2023-032_PL-REZ-2023-047).pdf.pdf r ��
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Mark Koppel '
Umauma
Re:
Public Hearing December 6, 9:OOa (zoom or in person):Aloha Kia request for rezoning from Resort to
ML-limited industrial for a proposed service station and 135 parking stalls on sensitive costal, SMA
land.
TMK(3)2-1-6-2 (across from Reed's Bay Ice Ponds)
Aloha,
From: Claudia Rohr
Subject: December 6, 2023 Council Meeting, agenda item: REZ Bill 87 (Bills for
Ordinances first reading) - Opposed
Date: November 20, 2023 at 10:42:03 AM HST
To:
Aloha e Chair Heather Kimball and Council members-
Aloha Kia is requesting a rezoning from Resort to ML- limited industrial for a
proposed project which includes the conversion and expansion of an existing
building, construction of a service station, as well as adding 135 parking stalls on
TMK (3)2-1-6-2, at 92 Kalanianaole St., Hilo, located in the SMA across from Reed's
Bay Ice Ponds and subject to a restrictive flight path easement.
I oppose REZ Bill 87 on the merits:
(1) §205A-21 Findings and purposes. The legislature finds that, special controls on
developments within an area along the shoreline are necessary to avoid permanent
losses of valuable resources and the foreclosure of management options... The
legislature finds and declares that it is the state policy to preserve, protect, and where 5Zo m
possible, to restore the natural resources of the coastal zone of Hawaii.1/42cmm.
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(2) ML zoning is inconsistent with the 2005 General Plan (and proposed GP 2045)
because this parcel, TMK 3-2-1-6-2 is across from Reed's Bay Ice Ponds and Reed's
Bay, both of which are listed as Special Places of Natural Beauty protected under the
public trust doctrine, article XI, section 1 of the Hawai'i Constitution.
(3) The 2005 GP states ML zoning allows for noxious enterprises that might not be
compatible with commercial and other zoning districts.
(4) The zone change is inconsistent with the nearby Open and Resort zoning across the
street.
(5) ML zoning allows for noxious enterprises like junk yards, or a noisy water bottling
plant which are inconsistent with the Resort and Open zoning across the street as well
as the existing businesses and parks - the SCP Hilo Hotel (formerly the Seaside hotel),
The Ponds restaurant, and Reed's Bay Beach park and Ice Ponds.
(6) The project, a car sales lot and service operation is not suited to this location in the
SMA and in a restrictive flight path easement (see letter from DOT and applicant's site
map in the Background Report attached) which has restrictions on solar panels and
vegetation that might attract birds that interfere with the pilots' vision, radio, or fowls
engines and causes accidents.
(7) The landscaping provisions in the zoning code and by rule will do little to visually
screen 135 vehicles from street views. Aloha Kia chose this location for its show-
stopping street view to sell their product; and obviously ornamental vegetation that will
visually block the view of the product they are selling will not be chosen.
(8) There is no provision for more than the charging stations for e-cars required by
existing law for commercial development— i.e. no charging station requirement for all of
Aloha Kia's e-cars. This particular location is not suited for a car sales lot because of
the restrictive flight path easement. A car lot selling e-cars will most likely draw
electricity from the public grid and undermine, and not contribute to, our state and
county zero emissions goals that the Council is required to consider under
HRS §225P-5 Zero emissions clean economy target and Hawai'i County's
Climate Mitigation Plan.
(9) The existing commercial restaurants, (Millie's Deli and Snack Shop and a Thai
restaurant) services the Keaukaha and Leleiwi neighborhoods which are underserved
for lack of commercial zoning and they are an affordable option along with Verna's
servicing pedestrian traffic from Reed's Bay beach park.
(10) Industrial zoning and a car sales lot in this particular location changes the
quintessential character of Hilo as a place of natural beauty that fuels our tourist
economy.
I included the Background Report because the link in Communication 520 does not
work. Thank you for your consideration.
Claudia Rohr, owner of TMK (3)2-1-18-05 bordering Kalanianaole St.
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