HomeMy WebLinkAboutREP PC 045 09/01/2009 2008-2010
REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
DATE: September 1, 2009 Re: Comm. 495/Bill No. 137
PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa
78-128 Ehukai Street
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
Council Chair and Members
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Bill No. 137, reports as follows:
Bill 137, transmitted via Communication 495, from Mayor William P. Kenoi, dated August 14, 2009,
presents a request to amend certain conditions by Palamanui Global Holdings, LLC, applicant.
Bill 137 seeks to amend Ordinance No. 06-105, which reclassified lands from Agriculture - 3 acres
(A-3a) and Open (O) to Project District (PD) at Ka`u, North Kona, Hawaii, covered by Tax Map
Key: 7-2-005:001. Bill 137 amends Conditions D, G, N, Q, S, X, EE, PP, TT, and UU.
Twenty members of the public provided testimony on the matter. All but one spoke in support of
the request. All twenty spoke favorably regarding the project's support of the community
college campus on the west side. Nineteen testified that the developer must be allowed to
reshuffle its priorities, in order to allow the project to move forward in an economically feasible
manner. The lone dissenter stated that the developer must not be allowed to shirk its obligations.
Your Committee concurs with the Planning Commission and the Planning Director's favorable
recommendation for approval of the request to amend the conditions.
Committee Member Ford voted "kanalua" twice.
Your Committee on Planning is in accord with the purpose and intent of Bill No. 137 and
recommends it pass first reading.
awm
AYES NOES A&E Ex Respectfully submitted,
ENRIQUES X
FORD X COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
GREENWELL X
HOFFMANN X
IKEDA X
NAEOLE X DONALD IKEDA, CHAIR
ONISHI X
YAGONG X PC REPORT NO. 45
YOSHIMOTO X ADOPTED: OCT 0 7 2009