HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN PC 2017/02/21 (2016-2018)Committee on Planning
2nd Session
Hawaii County Building
25 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawaii
February 21, 2017
CALL TO The regular meeting of the Committee on Planning was called to order at
ORDER: 1:05 p.m., in the Council Chambers, Hilo, by Ms. Karen Eoff, Chair.
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Present: Ms.
Karen Eoff, Chair
Ms.
Eileen O'Hara, Vice Chair
Mr.
Aaron Chung, Member
Ms.
Maile Medeiros David, Member
Mr.
Dru Mamo Kanuha, Member
Ms.
Susan L. K. Lee Loy, Member
Ms.
Valerie T. Poindexter, Member
Mr.
Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Member (came in later)
Ms.
Jennifer Ruggles, Member (came in later)
STATEMENTS The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business,
FROM THE Statements from the Public on Agenda Items.
PUBLIC ON
AGENDA ITEMS: The following individuals registered to speak in opposition and to comment on
Bill 10 (Comm. 81), and came forward when called by the Chair:
Elaine Stephanie Salazar.
Russell Doi.
COMMUNI- The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business,
CATIONS: Communications.
(There were none.)
ORDER OF The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business,
RESOLUTIONS: Order of Resolutions.
(There were none.)
BILLS FOR The Chair directed the Committee to proceed to the next order of business, Bills
ORDINANCES: for Ordinances.
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CHR. EOFF: Mr. Clerk, can you please read in Bill 10?
February 21, 2017
Bill 10: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 12-111 WHICH AMENDED ORDINANCE
NO. 99-116 WHICH AMENDED ORDINANCE NO. 96-159 WHICH
AMENDED SECTION 25-8-33 (CITY OF HILO ZONE MAP), ARTICLE 8,
CHAPTER 25 (ZONING CODE) OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983
(2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED) (formerly referred to as Section 25-114, City
of Hilo Zone Map, Article 3, Chapter 25, Zoning Code), BY CHANGING THE
DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL —
10,000 SQUARE FEET (RS -10) TO NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL —
7,500 SQUARE FEET (CN -7.5) AT WAIAKEA, SOUTH HILO, HAWAII,
COVERED BY TAX MAP KEYS: 2-2-044:003, 031,032, 035, AND 037
(Applicant: Rhodes Moore, LLC (formerly Graphic Images Hawaii, Inc.))
(Area: 322,414 square feet)
The Windward Planning Commission forwards its favorable recommendation
for amendments to Conditions C, G, and Q of Change of Zone Ordinance No.
12-111, which would: 1) Grant a time extension to secure final subdivision
approval; 2) Modify the timing of installing drainage improvements; and 3)
Reduce the fair share contribution provision for this assisted living facility.
Reference: Comm. 81
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff (B/R)
Motion to Approve: Ms. O'Hara moved to recommend passage of Bill 10 on
first reading. Seconded by Ms. David.
CHR. EOFF: Council Members, we do have John Dewalt, a representative of the
applicant and Thomas Yeh, the applicant's attorney here in the Chambers in
Kona, and I believe there may be somebody from the Planning Department in
Hilo, but I can't see them at this time. I'm going to ask the applicant's
representatives to please come forward.
(Note: At this time, John Dewalt Developer and Thomas Yeh Attorney
came forward to address the members of the Committee.)
CHR. EOFF: And you have provided us additional handout material but would
either one of you like to go first and state your name and give any kind of
background you can provide at this time?
MR. YEH: Sure, I'd be happy to. Thank you, madam Chair and members of the
Council. Good afternoon. Basically, what we have provided to you and maybe if
you can take a look at those handouts, it will give you kind of a site orientation.
So the first is a tax map and you will see where the subject property is which is at
the corner of East Kahaopea and Kanoelehua Avenue. The previous testifier, you
can see there's a little bit of an irregular shaped parcel that's along Kanoelehua,
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that's where their parcel is. And then you can see along Kanoelehua there's
what's called easement `A', which is approximately 25' wide road easement,
access easement. They're not actually using that access, they've been using
actually another driveway location that's further east at the owner's permission.
This is land court property
From a real practical standpoint, that easement itself is really not a safe location.
It was created when these lots were created back when and before all the
development occurred along the highway. And so from our perspective, we have
been in discussion with them to be able to provide them an alternative access,
along with an emergency access, which I will get to in a moment. But from our
understanding, the Department of Public Works had just recently indicated that
they're not really inclined to give them access along that location anyway, just
because of the safety issues. Not one that's created necessarily by this project, but
by the fact that you will have traffic coming off of Kanoelehua and turning right,
and that's just not a good location. Similarly, coming out of that location to come
on to Kahaopea is also not a safe location.
So if you take a look now at the next diagram which is your color sheet site plan,
that's what the current layout of this project is, and it'll be a good opportunity for
me to also explain this property in relation to some of the drainage issues that
have been discussed. So if we take a look at the site plan, and we take a look at
Mr. Doi and Ms. Salazar's property to the right hand side, one of the key
proposals that we provided to them is to be able to utilize the access that you see
here, to come out through the property and go on to the main driveway, which we
feel is a much better location for them, from a safety perspective.
Now in times of flooding, we do acknowledge that this property has its
challenges. And basically, if you were to take a look at the right hand side of the
map, you have some of the East Palai stream location that skirts around this
property and comes out on the East Kahaopea, almost across from Awapuhi
Street. From a development perspective, we're not allowed, the applicant's not
allowed to change that flow either in terms of velocity, location with their depth
from where it exits the property. That's a given. Neither the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), County Codes, nor common law allows that
water, in times of heavy rain, to be changed at that location.
So what the process is basically, as I understand and Mr. Dewalt will explain a
little bit more, is that the current FEMA maps are actually not quite accurate in
and of themselves. But to accommodate this site there are some adjustments on
the property, but where it exits the property will remain the same.
That's where we come in with this time extension request that we requested
because the current deadline is August of this year. In order to get to this final
approval from the Federal Management Agency as well as the County, you have
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to go through a two-step process. One is to get a Conditional Letter of Map
Revision (CLOMR) to discuss the drainage improvements that will accommodate
this site as well as the project. And then once those improvements are done, get a
final letter of map revision. That process through the respective agencies is the
time consuming one. So we're asking for basically a five-year time extension
from August of this year to get this accomplished before a certificate of
occupancy is even issued for this building. So, all of these agencies need to
approve that design and the actual final construction approval before any
occupancy or that kind of thing takes place.
Speaking of an emergency access now, discussions that we have had with
Ms. Salazar is to provide another possible access where—you see the parking
near the commercial element along the corner? That would really only be used in
the event that area, that main common driveway has water. The water recedes
there rather quickly. We didn't create the problem, we're trying to accommodate
and adjust to it.
From an overall perspective, this property has been undeveloped, vacant, and not
the sightliest place for a number of years. From an economic use standpoint, we
believe that this provides a really good opportunity from the standpoint of
providing a highly needed assisted living facility location in Hilo, for East
Hawaii residents. I just visited the Pohai Nani facility on Oahu, you've seen ads
there. Very similar kind of accommodations, but here we have a situation where
people from East Hawaii are moving there. We're basically splitting up families,
so we're hoping that this can provide a badly needed accommodation for East
Hawaii. John, did you want to say more about the flooding?
MR. DEWALT: One of the key issues for the extension is
CHR. EOFF: Excuse me, could you just introduce yourself first?
MR. DEWALT: I'm sorry, my name is John Dewalt, I'm with Rhodes Moore,
I'm a principal there, I'm the developer for the project. I reside in Encinitas,
California. I just want to give you a little more about the background with regard
to the flood zone issues. When we originally started designing this project, the
FEMA map had, where you see our exit onto the side road, it's actually not on the
flood plain according to FEMA, but realistically it was. During the middle of our
design process, they changed their updated their flood map and put that road
now in the flood plain, which requires us to go through FEMA if we have any
kind of driveways or anything like that built in that area to be approved through
that conditional letter process. As our engineers went through that conditional
letter process, our understanding is that the current FEMA map is wrong too, in
terms of the actual places where the flooding goes, and there are some other
issues with that flood plain.
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So we submitted a plan to clean up some of those problems and restructure that
flood plain map. We'll be maintaining the storage capabilities of the property and
the flow rates, etc. across the road. There may be some improvements to a little
bit of the upstream properties, but we really can't do anything based on those
constraints of flow rates and timing and stuff to help the downstream properties.
So the process is going through FEMA, both through County Engineering as well
as the Federal Emergency Management Association. That agency—that will be
going on through the spring. Once we have the conditional letter approved, then
we will be able to actually build the improvements. Once the improvements are
done, then we'll have to go back, provide a submittal for the final letter of
approval, which we'll have to have in place before we can do the occupancy.
MR. YEH: A couple of areas that I wanted to kind of supplement information on
is the third sheet handout that you were provided. It's a depiction of the
improvements to the intersection that will be provided by the applicant. And
really, it actually is not—based on the traffic impact analysis, it was felt that these
improvements would help more the employee traffic scenario and additions. So
right now, as you come out of Kahaopea and you turn onto Kanoelehua, you're
just going to have two lanes, one that goes straight, left, or right. The plan is to
put in a turning—left turn turning pocket onto Kanoelehua, a left turn turning
pocket onto Awapuhi Street, and then having a left -turn pocket into the common
driveway.
The other two areas that we're seeking basically adjustment on in terms of the
ordinances, deals with the fair share issues, both from a parks and traffic impact
standpoint. The residents there are really not going to be creating traffic impacts
in and of themselves, nor will they be creating park impacts. Onsite, there will be
memory -care gardens, recreational facilities, walking paths, and interestingly
enough, when we took a look at some of the Blue -Zones related concepts that the
County has adopted by policy, we had a discussion with Carol Ignacio and she
suggested and provided us with certain guidelines. And it's kind of coincidental
because some of the design landscape that we're doing with Leonard Bisel as well
as the architect, really incorporates walking paths of different kinds of levels for
people with different capabilities. Garden areas and these quiet locations, serene
locations as well as gardening opportunities so we're really happy to look at those
guidelines and try to incorporate those into the project.
That has something to do with the fair share issue to some extent too because
most of these residents will have come from East Hawaii. They will have paid
their property taxes and developed the things that are there now in East Hawaii,
so we really feel from an impact standpoint, those are the two areas that we would
like some adjustment on. In terms of the parks, fire, and solid waste fair share,
it's not a problem, we're willing to pay that because those are certainly basic
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services that this project will need. But we're open to any questions at this time.
Thank you.
CHR. EOFF: Thank you, sir. Council Members, discussion? Ms. Lee Loy.
MS. LEE LOY: Hi. Aloha, Mr. Yeh. This is in my district and that flooding
really is an issue. And so what I can see is through condition H, you guys are
going to be doing the drainage improvements which requires the LOMR (Letter of
Map Revision), and I was just wondering what the timing element for that is
because I know that to be a very long and exhaustive process.
MR. YEH: Very good question, Ms. Lee Loy. You know, five years is actually a
pretty tight timeline. We were thinking about not necessarily asking for more, but
asking for the ability, as we often see in zoning ordinances for the Planning
Department, to provide some authority to provide an administrative time
extension if we really run into issues at that point. And we'd be very happy if the
Council would consider something like that in the way of an adjustment to what's
on the table now. From a timeframe, maybe John, you can explain.
MR. DEWALT: So the process—we will start our construction documents, etc.
Once this is approved and the CLOMR is approved and the subdivision map is
approved, that will probably be sometime this summer. The permitting process
will probably take nine months to a year and then the construction process will
probably take about 18 months. During that construction process, the first thing
that will be done will be the flood zone improvements. Then after that, we'd start
working on the LOMR process.
MR. YEH: Now he's speaking from Mainland experience. So I got to say that's
an optimistic timeline, I'll say.
CHR. EOFF: Mr. Yeh?
MR. YEH: Yes, ma'am.
CHR. EOFF: Because somebody's recording minutes, could you just say your
name before you speak?
MR. YEH: Oh, thank you.
CHR. EOFF: Thank you. Just to identify who's doing
MR. YEH: I was going to say that may be an optimistic perspective from a
Mainland point of view. Things in Hawaii do move more slowly. So any
accommodation you could provide would be helpful.
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CHR. EOFF: Okay. Thank you.
MR. YEH: Not necessarily that we're going to need it, but to have it would be
great.
MS. LEE LOY: And then the other piece is that I see you have a surety bond for
the drainage improvements. Can you elaborate on that surety bond and what you
folks are bonding as far as infrastructure?
MR. YEH: Good question. See, the processes that we need to go through are
going through CLOMR and getting approval. In order to get plan approval,
technically you got to finish subdivision approval because you can't have plan
approval for properties that cross boundaries. So the main thrust of what we need
to do here from a subdivision standpoint, is consolidate boundaries so that we're
not crossing boundaries with the facility themselves. So you've got this
subdivision approval process, plan approval, getting building permits, again have
to be for an existing parcel, not two or three different ones.
So the idea behind the surety bond is you bond all the improvements, including
the drainage improvements, to be able to get the final subdivision approval where
you take all the various estimated cost of doing the drainage in the subdivision.
You provide a cashier's check or letter of credit, or a surety bond to the County,
which doesn't get released until all of those improvements are done. And in this
case here, also under the use permit that was issued by the Planning Commission
for this project, no certificate of occupancy can be issued to the ALF (Assisted
Living Facility) facility until everything has been done and that bond is released.
So there are a number of safeguards in place to make sure that whatever drainage
improvements, etc. are required, will in fact be done before certificate of
occupancy. That doesn't necessarily affect the commercial segment on the corner
because that's out of the area that we're discussing.
MS. LEE LOY: One more question.
CHR. EOFF: Is your mic on?
MS. LEE LOY: Last question. You talked about the flow, I think we're atAE
is our flow rate. Is that one to three feet velocity?
MR. YEH: I'm not an engineer either, all I know is that the engineers need the
design to make sure that what exits—that property is not changed from what it
exists now.
MS. LEE LOY: Okay. And so you're doing the work with Public Works, the
individuals, the engineers that would actually ensure that the water flow is being
maintained and that—
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MR. YEH: Not adversely
MS. LEE LOY: Not adversely affecting and then the drainage improvements that
you folks are providing are being bonded, right?
MR. YEH: Correct. And whatever—so you have existing flow that flows onto
and off the property, and you can have flow that is generated by the development
itself, which is additional. That flow needs to be accommodated onsite through
proper drywells and drainage improvements, yes. And the same thing for what
else gets bonded also, sidewalks, curbs, and gutters and some of the other traffic
improvements that we're talking about.
MS. LEE LOY: Those sidewalk improvements, they will occur on the, I guess
it's the
MR. YEH: Frontage of that property.
MS. LEE LOY: Frontage of the property. Does it hook up to the next
subdivision? I believe they have some—
MR. YEH: I don't believe it does go all the way down.
MR. DEWALT: No, there's an extra property in between our property and those
homes.
MS. LEE LOY: Okay.
CHR. EOFF: Mr. Dewalt, can you state your name when you do start speaking?
MR. DEWALT: I'm sorry, John Dewalt.
CHR. EOFF: Thank you. Okay, other questions, Council Members? Mr.
Richards.
MR. RICHARDS: Good afternoon. Question—we keep coming back to this
flooding concern and I'm very sensitive to that. I mean Hilo is Hilo and we all
understand that, but I'm also very sensitive to Mr. Doi and Ms. Salazar's being
neighbors and being affected. I've read the transcript of the Windward Planning
meeting and it makes reference to some options that were put forth. I'm still
puzzled on the drainage. I know we've been discussing it here some, but could
you clarify that again, walk me through that once again, please?
MR. YEH: And I'm not quite sure what's being referenced, but their property,
which is on the right hand side of the tax map or the site plan—as I understand,
the East Palai stream water does come across a portion of their property on the
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back side. It then skirts around that corner and we're not going to be changing it.
In fact, I think—John, maybe you can explain and introduce yourself, about how
their property might be improved actually by some of these—
MR. DEWALT: This is John again. The stream, as it goes—comes in probably
in the middle of that page where you see green areas, and then comes just past the
west side of their property. Where you see our building out there is currently a
peninsula of high land where our building is on, so it kind of goes up to the west a
little bit, including the adjacent property there and it comes back around that large
green area, which is a large flood area. What we'll be doing in our improvements,
is adding some depth to that to create some additional volume to make sure we
don't release more than we're supposed to. And taking a few—there's a few
constraints right there where our building kind of points to the west. Just west of
our building there's a little bit of a constraint there, we've been clearing that up as
part of the process so that actually, some of the properties to the south of us may
see a little bit less flooding as we're going to direct that water to the bigger basin,
the northeast side of our property.
We will not, at this point in time, the engineering group has not asked us to
replace the culvert that's there on the side road. If we replaced the culvert with a
larger culvert, what happens is our property will see less flooding but the water
will go more quickly to the property south of us and create more flooding sooner
there. And FEMA's rules won't allow us to do that.
MR. YEH: And we have been in discussion the—this is Tom Yeh, have been in
discussion with the owner with the—that's on the top of the page and they're
working with us in coordination with respect to that flood drainage work, the
Chock family.
MR. RICHARDS: Okay. And I appreciate that and I do conceptually, I like the
idea again for all things to have been articulated, but again, being sensitive to the
neighbors. Have you sit down and had the talk stories with Mr. Doi and
Ms. Salazar?
MR. YEH: Yes, we have. In fact, around the time that we filed—actually prior to
the filing time, we actually sent out a notice to everybody within 500 feet of this
area. We gave notice before and actually had a community meeting, and
interestingly enough, at least at that time, only Ms. Salazar and Mr. Doi showed
up. We've been talking to them since day one.
MR. RICHARDS: Okay. Thank you.
MR. YEH: Thank you.
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CHR. EOFF: Ms. David. And by the way, I believe that there's some people
from maybe the Planning Department in Hilo now. Looks like it.
MS. DAVID: Thank you, Chair Eoff Aloha, Mr. Yeh and Mr. Dewalt. Thank
you. I just have a few questions regarding the recommendations from the
Planning Commission and department. The CLOMR and LOMR are being
recommended in that report that it be done, and as far as I can understand it, it's a
two-step process. The CLOMR comes first and then before you folks do the
actual work, and once you do that, you submit it back to DPW (Department of
Public Works) and FEMA and then they come up with the final LOMR. Okay.
That I understand and I think that is a long process.
And then I'm looking on Condition G now in the bill and it states, "If required by
the Department of Public Works, the applicant shall construct any necessary
drainage improvements ..." So I'm reading the recommendations from the
Planning Department as any time a developer alters or replaces special flood, they
must do these things. And then on the condition it says, "If required by the
Department ...," I have aI was wondering what that meant.
MR. YEH: And I can explain that.
MS. DAVID: Thank you.
MR. YEH: You know, the zoning ordinance is not necessarily development
specific, right? So, if for instance, there was nothing that occurred there, then you
wouldn't necessarily trigger some of these issues. But to the extent that you have
development occurring within this area of drainage, then that's when you get
these requirements in. And the LOMR is because, as Mr. Dewalt explained, in
order to deal with that site and make the flow in that situation better, then we will
need to go get a letter of map revision, we can't change that without going
through that FEMA process. Under the use permit, which is a more specific
approval of the application for the assisted living facility, there's a clear direction
that we get that approval.
MS. DAVID: And so the concerns that Ms. Salazar expressed when she—about
the flooding and the pictures that she provided, is that the subject property that's
going to be developed?
MR. YEH: You know, it may be portions of it. You know, whether it'll look like
that once these improvements are done, that's another question.
MS. DAVID: Yeah, because I'm thinking that if what you're planning to do will
resolve what Ms. Salazar has pointed out as far as the flooding in that area, and it
resolves that issue as far as flooding, it seems like there is flooding, and so
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MR. DEWALT: This is John Dewalt. I think, just to kind of clarify things, the
primary reason we're having to do a CLOMR—initially we didn't need to do a
CLOMR, our entrance, the main entrance and the County recommended location
entrance down across from the cross street is an ideal way from a traffic
perspective. However, it's down where it floods. Originally, that wasn't in the
FEMA flood plain because the FEMA flood plain was an error. When they
changed it, they put that in the flood plain because we're putting a driveway there.
We need to go through the CLOMR process and demonstrate any changes we're
making don't affect the flooding. Our building and the rest of the parking and
stuff is well above the flood plain, so the flood plain is still there, it will still
flood. But we're trying to make some improvements to make sure there's
adequate storage by making the basin a little bit bigger and mitigate for the
driveway, because the driveway will take up a little bit of space and reduces the
storage. So we're digging some other areas and we'll create more storage in that
area.
MS. DAVID: Okay. Well, I just needed some clarification on that because—
MR. YEH: This is Tom. We're not necessarily in the position to resolve issues
for people that are downstream. I mean that is a situation that has existed, does
exist, and we can't—we're really not in a position to change that. If we did, we'd
have a huge sink hole on the property
MS. DAVID: I understand that—
MR. YEH: Where the water is going down. All we can try to do is
MS. DAVID: Minimize what you do on your
MR. YEH: Accommodate what's there on site, adjust for the facility and make
sure that nobody downstream gets affected any differently than they are now.
That's a basic theme of concept that we have.
MS. DAVID: Right. I understand that. So the condition that it will just do a
LOMR as opposed to a CLOMR and LOMR in the conditions, you are just going
to do a Letter of Map Revision?
MR. YEH: Correct.
MR. DEWALT: This is John again. Originally, we would just need to do a
LOMR after we finish construction, demonstrating that we didn't affect the flood
area. But because our driveway now is in the flood area, we have to do the
CLOMR first for FEMA to approve that plan, and then a LOMR afterwards to
demonstrate that we followed the plan.
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MS. DAVID: That's what I was wondering and that wasn't in the conditions, so
that was my question. And whether it should be is my other question. Thank you
for explaining that and that's all I have. Mahalo.
CHR. EOFF: Any other comments, Council Members, or questions?
MS. O'HARA: Chair?
CHR. EOFF: Yes. Ms. O'Hara.
MS. O'HARA: Thank you, gentlemen for being here and thank you Mr. Yeh for
calling ahead. Is Daryn Arai in the Chambers in Hilo?
CHR. EOFF: Yes, he is.
MS. O'HARA: Daryn, could you come forward?
(Note: At this time, Daryn Arai Planning Program Manager came forward
to address the members of the Committee.)
MS. O'HARA: I'm familiar with this area and it does flood and it's not just the
subject property. There is a future river coming down the mountain side there and
at some point, it's going to make itself known to us. But it is an area of great
flooding and they can do only so much on this property to prevent flooding, but
it's definitely not impacting further south or further down the flood plain. But
what they're doing, from what I can tell, is going to be adequate to adjust the flow
on this property, and their obligation is to keep the water onsite through drywells
and that sort of thing. But it's not going to solve the problem of flooding in that
area, which is a much bigger problem.
So I was going to ask Mr. Arai if he felt that their measures that they're going to
be introducing are adequate for the development. I know it's probably not going
to change the fact that area is prone to flooding.
MR. ARAI: Good afternoon, Chairperson Eoff and members of the committee,
my name is Daryn Arai with the Planning Department. To address Council
Member O'Hara's question, because we're at the zoning level, we are looking at a
proposal that is really at the conceptual stage. What will happen now, is should
this amendment be approved, you'll allow the landowner or developer to proceed
forward with the necessary civil engineering work, which would include the
necessary design and calculations to accommodate any onsite drainage that is
generated, and then adequately disposed of onsite as well.
Regarding the floodway, the intent is not, as Mr. Yeh mentioned, not to add to the
volume or the direction of the flow. But simply, any additional onsite drainage
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generated shall be disposed onsite and not contribute to the overall direction and
volume of the floodway. I hope I answered your question.
MS. O'HARA: Yes, thank you.
CHR. EOFF: Ms. Lee Loy.
MS. LEE LOY: Aloha, Mr. Arai, it's Sue Lee Loy. I had a question specifically
to those drainage improvements and moving forward with the engineering work.
My understanding is they have five years to get this CLOMR and then the LOMR
and then the FEMA maps revised. Is there a ministerial piece that they would
have an opportunity to have, a ministerial time extension, just because some of
these things are out of the developers control with the different agencies?
MR. ARAI: The draft bill does not include a provision for administrative time
extensions, so should they not satisfy the requirements within the five-year
timeframe, they would have to appear back before the Council.
MS. LEE LOY: A follow-up question, Mr. Arai. For the use permit attached to
this subject application, is there a timing element for that also in the use permit?
MR. ARAI: In my rush to get over here, I just grabbed the rezoning file and not
the use permit file. Normally, we do embed the privilege about administrative
time extension in most use permits, and I would have expected we'd have done
likewise with the assisted living facility, but I'm just doing that off the top of my
head. I'll try to verify it for you.
MS. LEE LOY: Thank you.
MR. YEH: Ms. Lee Loy?
CHR. EOFF: Mr. Yeh.
MR. YEH: My apologies, this is Tom Yeh. Yes, the use permit does have an
administrative time extension on top of the standard time approval also. Yes, it's
similar to what you were discussing.
CHR. EOFF: Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions, Council
Members? No? Okay, then seeing none, I'll go ahead and thank you for being
here and answering these questions and we'll look forward to any other
assurances or comments you can provide at the first reading at Council as well.
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Vote on 'Ihe motion to recommend passage of Bill 10 on first
Bill 10: reading was carried by the following voice vote:
(Approved)
Ayes: Committee Members Chung, David, Kanuha
Lee Loy, O'Hara, Poindexter, Richards, Ruggles
and Chair Eoff - 9.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
Excused: None.
ADJOURN There being no further business, at 1:49 p.m.. Ms. David moved to adjourn the
MENT: meeting. Seconded by Ms. Poindexter and carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Committee Members Chung, David, Kanuha,
Lee Loy, O'Hara, Poindexter, Richards, Ruggles,
and Chair F.off 9.
Noes: None,
Absent: None.
Excused: None.
CHR. EOFF: Our meeting's adjourned.
Approved:
'
Ms. Karen Eotf, Chair
Planning Committee
KE/jm
MAR 07 2017
(Date)
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