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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT JANUARY 6, 2011 YAMADA & SONS, INC. (SPP 10-110) A regularly advertised hearing on the application of was called to order at 9:06a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, Stephen Ono, and Rell Woodward STAFF PRESENT: Julie Mecklenburg (Deputy Corporation Counsel), Daryn Arai (Planning Program Manager), Phyllis Fujimoto (Staff Planner), Maija CottleJeff Darrow (Staff Planner). And 12 people from the public in attendance. APPLICANT: YAMADA & SONS, INC. (SPP 10-110) Application for a Special Permit to allow for the establishment of a quarry and related uses on 14.99-acre portion of a larger 2,500±-acre parcel situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The project site is located to the south of the Hilo Sanitary Landfill and adjacent to the K: 2-1-13: Portion of 2. KERN:We’ll call up the first applicant, oh, excuse me, we’ll have the staff presentation for Yamada and Sons (SPP 10-110); and Maija will do that. Thank you. COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, everyone. Happy New Year. COMMISSIONERS: Happy New Year. COTTLE: The first application is a special permit request for a quarry in the South Hilo district. The applicant is Yamada and Sons. And if I can direct your attention to the screen, the location of the subject property is outlined in red in the middle of the slide; and the property is currently zoned Agricultural 20-acres. Most of the properties surrounding it are also Agriculturally zoned. You can see up in the north edge of the slide here, northwest edge of the slide is Industrially zoned lands. And just to help orient you here, the highway runs in a north-south direction off the slide here. Then you see Railroad Avenue. Walmart and Home Depot are also off the slide in this area over here, actually a little bit further down here. And then Leilani Avenue comes in right here at the top of the slide. And if you follow Leilani, the area where the red cursor is now is the location of the Hilo Rubbish Dump. And then if you go a little bit further on the Rubbish Dump Road, the current Hilo Landfill is in this general area here. So if you follow the road even further south and then head to the east, you see the subject property. There are also three other quarries located nearby. The General Plan designation for the property is Important Ag land which is shown in the light green. And the applicant is requesting a special permit to establish and operate a quarry on about 14.99 acres of land. They’re going to use the quarry material for their general contracting business, and to sell to the general public. All of the quarried material would be hauled to the site to the applicant’s baseyard off of Railroad Avenue where it will be crushed. And they’re proposing to operate the quarry from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily and there would be no retail sales on the site. 1 EXHIBIT A