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PLANNING COMMISSION COUNTY OF HAWAII HEARING TRANSCRIPT MAY 5, 2006 HUI O MANA, LLC (SPP 06- A regularly advertised hearing on the application filed by 000024) was called to order at 3:34 p.m. in the County Building, Councilroom - Room 201, 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman C. Kimo Alameda presiding. PRESENT:C. Kimo AlamedaABSENT & EXCUSED: Jeffrey McCall Fred GaldonesRodney Watanabe Bill GrahamRene Siracusa Andrew Iwashita AllenSalavea IvanTorigoe,DeputyCorporationCounsel Christopher J. Yuen, Planning Director Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner APPLICANT: HUI O MANA, LLC (SPP 06-000024) Special Permit to allow the establishment of a Health and Wellness Retreat Facility on a 3.167- acre area situated within the State Land Use Agricultural District. The area involved is located between Waikaalulu Road and Kalopa Gulch, approximately 4 miles mauka of State Highway 19 (40-mile marker), Kaapahu, Hamakua, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 4-4-13: portion of 10. ALAMEDA:We are on Item No. 7, Applicant HUI O MANA, LLC (SPP 06-000024). Staff? DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Are we all here? Okay. If I may direct the attention of the Planning Commissioners to the location map. The area of this application is within the Hamakua District of Hawaii. More specifically, this is near Kalopa or Kaapahu. This, just for reference, this white line running in a east-west direction is our Hawaii Belt Road. Were going to be looking in this particular area. We would access approximately near the 40- mile marker. Many of you may be familiar with the Kalopa State Park entrance road. As far as through my site inspection to the property, thats the access that we had used to come up to the property. But its my understanding that there are alternative accesses from the highway. But from Hilo way that would be the access that someone would use if they were coming to this area. It is located approximately 4 miles mauka from the Hawaii Belt Road. Im not going to go into great detail on access getting up there, but basically the property is located where this red dot is, off of Waikaalulu Road. And this is identified in this particular area. There are other roads that you use to access all the way down to the Highway. Most of them or actually all of those on the way down are paved. You have two-lane roads. In certain areas youre going to have, the roads are going to narrow to one lane. Most of it is paved up till about this portion here, County maintained and paved. From this portion here up to Pohakealani Street, which is a paper road thats identified in this white line here, this is no longer County maintained, yet its considered a 1EXHIBIT D