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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />COUNTY OF HAWAII
<br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT
<br />MARCH 5, 2020
<br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application of SILENT OWL, LLC (SMA 20-000075)
<br />was called to order at 9:05 a.m. in the County of Hawaii Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101
<br />Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman Thomas Raffipiy presiding.
<br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Gilbert Aguinaldo, Dean Au, Joseph Clarkson, Donn Dela
<br />Cruz, Thomas Raffipiy, John Replogle.
<br />ALSO PRESENT: Michael Yee (Planning Director), Malia Hall (Deputy Corporation Counsel
<br />for the Windward Planning Commission), Jeff Darrow (Planning Program Manager), Maija
<br />Jackson (Planner), Alex Roy (Planner), Jessica Andrews (Planner), and Sarah Hata-Finley
<br />(Commission Secretary).
<br />And 14 members from the public in attendance.
<br />APPLICANT: SILENT OWL, LLC (SMA 20-000075)
<br />Application for a Special Management Area Use Permit to construct a 2 -story office building
<br />with parking and related drainage, utility, and access improvements on 16,582 square feet of land
<br />within the Special Management Area. The subject property is located across from the
<br />intersection of Mohouli Street and Kilauea Avenue at Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, TMK: (3)
<br />2-2-053:006.
<br />RAFFIPIY: With that, let's proceed to the first item on today's agenda, Agenda Item No. 1,
<br />Applicant Silent Owl, LLC, application for a Special Management Area Use Permit to construct
<br />a 2 -story office building with parking and related drainage, utility, and access improvements on
<br />16,582 square feet of land within the SMA area. The presentation will be done by Alex.
<br />ROY: Okay, good morning, Commission. Thank you, Chair. Today, I'm going to presenting a
<br />Special Management Area Use Permit application for Silent Owl, LLC, SMA -20-000075.
<br />Here's the project location, there's a small, red—let's see if I can locate it. Right here, you can
<br />see the project area, right here. It's just down the street adjacent to Maile Street, which is right
<br />adjacent to Caf6 100. The Applicant is requesting a Special Management Area Use Permit.
<br />They intend to construct a 2 -story office building and associated development including parking
<br />areas and landscaping. The objective is to create an office facility for primarily non-profit child
<br />and family service organizations, necessary support areas and facilities to meet the broad needs
<br />of a service organization serving East Hawaii.
<br />Here's the current County zoning of the project area, that's outlined in red. We have, the
<br />majority of the area surrounding the project site is CG, which is General Commercial, 7,500
<br />square feet. You can also see it would be kind of makai and to the east. There's a section of
<br />EXHIBIT A
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