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WINDWARD PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I HEARING TRANSCRIPT MARCH 3, 2011 WILLIAM ELSTON AND DAWN A regularly advertised hearing on the application of TILMAN (SPP 10-112) was called to order at 9:04 a.m. in the County of Hawai‘i, Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Zendo Kern presiding. COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Zendo Kern, Dean Au, Takashi Domingo, Wallace Ishibashi, and Stephen Ono STAFF PRESENT: Julie Mecklenburg (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd (Planning Director), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner), and Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner). And no one from the public in attendance. ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Rell Woodward APPLICANT: WILLIAM ELSTON AND DAWN TILMAN (SPP 10-112) Application for a Special Permit to allow the establishment of a five-bedroom bed and breakfast operation within an existing dwelling situated on 4 acres of land within the State Land Use th Agricultural District. The property is located on the west (mauka) side of 36Avenue, between Ilima Street and Aulii Street, approximately 1,000 feet north of the intersection of Ilima Street th and 36 Avenue, Orchidland Estates Subdivision, Kea‘au, Puna, Hawai‘i, TMK: 1-6-008:306 and 307. KERN: Item No. 1, Applicant William Elston and Dawn Tilman (SPP 10-112), application for a Special Permit to allow the establishment of a five-bedroom bed and breakfast operation within an existing dwelling in Orchidland Subdivision. With that, we’ll have the staff presentation. Maija? COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning everyone. COMMISSIONERS: Good morning. COTTLE: The first application is located in the Puna district of the island; and the property is located in the Orchidland Subdivision. You can see the property outlined in black. And it’s th located between Aulii Street and Ilima Street, and it’s just mauka of 36Avenue. You can see the Keaau-Pahoa Road running in a north-south direction in the middle of the slide, and then Orchildand Drive comes off of the top of the slide here. The subject property is currently zoned Agricultural 1-acre, as well as all of the properties around it. You can see that in the light green. The General Plan designation for the property is Rural and,again, all of the properties surrounding it are the same. That’s shown in kind of the brown color. This is an aerial photo of the area. You see the existing dwelling on the property. And then the closest dwellings are located just to the north and to the south here. And there is very heavy vegetation surrounding this house so it’s not easily visible fromeither of these two houses. 1 EXHIBIT A