HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-10-20 Leeward Exh D (Public Testimony re Item 2 Sunshine Holdings & Item 4 Council Bill 194) LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPT
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Public testimony of Maki Morinoue via Zoom regarding the application of SUNSHINE
HOLDINGS, LLC (PL-REZ-2022-000032) and COUNTY COUNCIL INITIATED BILL
NO. 194 was heard at 9:43 a.m. in the West Hawaii Civic Center, Community Center, Building
G, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, with Chairman Michael Vitousek
presiding.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Michael Vitousek, Barbara DeFranco, Clement"CJ" Kanuha I11,
and Mahina Paishon-Duarte
ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Michael Dela Cruz and Zaheva Knowles
ALSO PRESENT: Keyra Wong, Esq. (Counsel for the Commission), Jean Campbell, Esq.
(Counsel for the Planning Department), Jeffrey Darrow (Deputy Planning Director),
Maija Jackson (Planning Program Manager), Jessica Andrews (Planner), Clinton Mercado
(Planner), Janice Hata(Zoom host), and Noriko Sauer (Commission Secretary)
APPLICANT: SUNSHINE HOLDINGS, LLC (PL-REZ-2022-000032)
Application for a five (5)-year time extension to Condition D (Final Subdivision Approval),
Amend Condition E(Restrictive Covenants) and Condition F (Restrictive Covenants) to prohibit
condominium property regimes (CPR) and to delete the requirement to provide a copy of the
recorded covenant prior to receipt of final subdivision approval, deletion of Condition G
(Requirement of Conservation Plans to be Filed with the Kona Soil and Water Conservation
District), amendment to Condition I(Drainage Study), addition of a condition requiring
compliance with Chapter 10 of the Hawaii County Code (Erosion and Sedimentation Control),
deletion of Condition J(Archaeological Survey), and amendment to Condition M (Fair Share
Requirements) of Ordinance No. 98 91, which reclassified 21.353 acres of land from an
Agricultural 20-acres (A-20a) to an Agricultural 5-acre (A-5a) zoned district. The subject
property is located at 73-1735 Kaloko Drive, approximately 720 feet southeast of its intersection
with Kaloko Loa Place, Kaloko Mauka Subdivision, Kaloko, North Kona, Hawaii,
TMK: (3) 7-3-025:012.
INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL (BILL NO. 194) (PL-CCI-2022-000002)
An Ordinance amending Chapter 25, Article 2, Division 4, of the Hawaii County Code 1983
(2016 Edition, as amended), relating to conditions on change of zone actions. The purpose of this
amendment is to clarify that the Planning Director may not extend the time allowed to satisfy
conditions within a change of zone ordinance unless specifically authorized by the County
Council.
VITOUSEK: Maki, please proceed with your testimony. Mahalo.
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MORINOUE: Thank you for this opportunity. I'm testifying for two (2) items, number 2 and
number four (4) today. I find a lot of—
VITOUSEK: Would you like to testify for both of those now or would you like to take number 4
when it comes up?
MORINOUE: Um' I'd like to do them now because I have to go to work.
VITOUSEK: Okay, go ahead. Yes.
MORINOUE: Alright. Number 2, I have a lot of red flags and concerns. Time extension is one
of them. Also, Agricultural twenty (20) acres being parceled down to five (5) acres rezone those
districts. Those are alarming to me because it does change the archaeological survey and other
steps to ensure that we have proper management and land usage. So that's very concerning to me.
The deletion of requirements to provide a copy "—" information for conservation plans filed with
the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District. Also, erosion and sediment control issues and the
deletion of Condition J(Archaeological Surveys). Having testified and then witnessed to many
things that are voting in a very non to me a structural process that you know I'm kind of echoing
Aunty Simmy's testimony here is really backwards thinking. Does not provide a regenerative
pathway forward for our local people, our land and even to move us towards circular economy
conversations. So, there's a lot of red flags for number 2 for me and increase in traffic and water
usage as well as water filtration.
Um' number 4, I absolutely support Bill 194 to not allow the Planning Director and its department
to extend expired permits here in Kona especially. It has reaped a lot of misfortune and havoc on
our environment. We are not catastrophically prepared. We have major floodways that are being
subject for development. Massive amounts of archaeological sites that are being destroyed as well
as not being properly looked at and viewed and archived. And an incredible amount of affordable
housing crisis and work force issues they all tie in together. So, for those reasons they were
stopped for a reason, and we should look at those reasons and revitalize if it is in fact makes any
good sense to revisit and allow those permits to pass. Mahalo.
VITOUSEK: Mahalo.
The testimony ended at 9:46 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Melissa Dacayanan-Salvador
Secretary to Boards and Commissions
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