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<br />LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />JULY 23, 2010 <br />MEN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT, <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the application of <br />INC. (REZ 10-124) <br />was called to order at 9:45 a.m. in the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach <br />Hotel, Ballroom I, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Frederic Housel <br />presiding. <br />COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Frederic Housel, Brandi Beaudet, Lani Bowman, Geraldine <br />Giffin, Thomas Hickcox, Wayne Iokepa and Richard Nelson <br />STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd <br />(Planning Director), Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning <br />Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner), Maija Cottle (Staff Planner) and Kiran Emler <br />(Department of Public Works) <br />And approximately 25 people from the public in attendance. <br />APPLICANT: MEN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT, INC. (REZ 10-124) <br />Change of Zone from a Single-Family Residential–15,000 square feet (RS-15) to a <br />Neighborhood Commercial–20,000 square feet (CN-20) district for 3.67 acres of land. The <br />property is located adjacent to and south of the Kona Community Hospital, Haleki‘i, South <br />Kona, Hawai‘i, TMK: 8-1-25:11. <br />HOUSEL: The next item on the agenda is, applicant is MEN Real Estate Investment. This is a <br />rezoning application, 10-124, a Change of Zone from a Single-Family Residential 15,000 square <br />feet (RS-15) to a Neighborhood Commercial 20,000 square feet (CN-20) district on 3.67 acres of <br />land. The property is located adjacent to and south of the Kona Community Hospital, Haleki‘i, <br />South Kona, Hawai‘i. Planner Darrow, would you like to give us a presentation on this? <br />DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I could direct your attention to our presentation on the <br />wall. As you had mentioned, our next applicant is MEN Real Estate Investment, Inc. The <br />applicant is requesting a Change of Zone. The location of our application is located in the right <br />on the boundary of the South Kona and North Kona District boundary line, and it is located in <br />the South Kona District. The actual boundary line is right here, so it’s right on the border. This <br />is in Kealakekua. Looking at the middle of the map, we have Mmalahoa Highway. Looking on <br />the left side of the map, moving in a mauka, or east-west direction, mauka-makai, we have <br />Haleki‘i Street. And the property is identified in a black outline. The different colors on the map <br />represent the different zonings in the area. The actual zoning for the property is identified with a <br />darker yellow color, which is representing Single-Family Residential 15,000 square feet zoning. <br />The light green zoning is representing Agricultural 5 Acres. And we have some different shades <br />of pink, which represent Commercial zoning – CV representing Village Commercial. This is a <br />little closer view. Again, we have Haleki‘i Street moving in an east-west direction, and we have <br />the Hawai‘i Belt Road moving in a north-south direction, with the subject property identified <br />1 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />