2020-03-05 Exh B New Cingular dba AT&T USE 19-081

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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT MARCH 5, 2020 A regularly advertised hearing on the application of NEW LINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC DBA AT&T MOBILITY (USE 19-000081) was called to order at 9:37 a.m. in the County of Hawaii Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman Thomas Raffipiy presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Gilbert Aguinaldo, Dean Au, Joseph Clarkson, Donn Dela Cruz, Thomas Raffipiy, John Replogle. ALSO PRESENT: Michael Yee (Planning Director), Malia Hall (Deputy Corporation Counsel for the Windward Planning Commission), Jeff Darrow (Planning Program Manager), Maija Jackson (Planner), Alex Roy (Planner), Jessica Andrews (Planner), and Sarah Hata-Finley (Commission Secretary). And 30 members from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: NEW LINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC DBA AT&T MOBILITY (USE 19-000081) Continued hearing on an application for a Use Permit to allow the construction of a non -manned telecommunication facility consisting of a 180 -foot tall monopole and related equipment within a 2,500 -square foot portion of a 9.65 -acre property situated in the County's Agricultural zoning district. The subject property is located north of Kua`aina Road, approximately 0.5 miles from the intersection with Volcano Road (Highway 11), Kea`au, Puna, Hawaii, TMK: (3) 1-7- 031:031. RAFFIPIY: With that, we're going to move into our next item on the agenda. It's a new applicantoh, it's a continued hearing on an application for the Use Permit to allow the construction of a non -manned telecommunication facility consisting of a 180 -foot tall monopole, and with that, we'll have Jessica, will be doing the presentation. ANDREWS: Thank you, Chair. I'm going to jump forward in this presentation to essentially cover the actions, the information since the previous hearing, so I will not go through, back through the entire presentation again in the interest of time. So, I apologize, I'm going to actually scroll through to the slide. So, I'm just going to summarize the actions that were taken since February 6h, 2020. On February 101h, notification of the March hearing date was mailed to surrounding property owners. On February 1 Ph, the Applicant relocated the public notification sign to subject property boundary at the nearest public road. An affidavit was provided to the Planning Department on 2- 24-20. On February 21 ", a letter of support from Fire Chief Darren Rosario, the Hawaii County Fire Department, was received by the Planning Department. On February 26, ownership of the EXHIBIT B