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LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
HEARING TRANSCRIPT
AUGUST 27, 2010
PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT
A regularly advertised hearing on the
TO CHAPTER 25, PROCESSING TIME FOR USE PERMIT APPLICATION
was called
to order at 10:37 a.m. in the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, Ballroom I, 75-5660 Palani
Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i, with Chairman Frederic Housel presiding.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Frederic Housel, Brandi Beaudet, Lani Bowman, Geraldine
Giffin, Thomas Hickcox, Wayne Iokepa and Richard Nelson
STAFF PRESENT: Brandon Gonzalez (Deputy Corporation Counsel), BJ Leithead Todd
(Planning Director), Margaret Masunaga (Deputy Planning Director), Daryn Arai (Planning
Program Manager), Jeff Darrow (Staff Planner) and Maija Cottle (Staff Planner)
And approximately 80 people from the public in attendance.
INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR
Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as
amended) relating to Processing Time for a Use Permit Application.
HOUSEL: We’ll proceed with Item No. 4 on our agenda. And the initiator is the Planning
Director. This is an amendment to Chapter 25, the Zoning Code, Hawai‘i County Code 1983
(2005 Edition, as amended) relating to the processing time for use permit application. Staff?
ARAI: Thank you. The proposed bill before you seeks to amend Section 25-2-63 of the Zoning
Code regarding procedures for use permit, which currently requires that the public hearing on a
use permit application commence no later than 60 days after its acceptance by the Planning
Director. That compressed time frame has caused difficulties in scheduling a use permit
application before the Commission, along with consideration for publication requirements in a
newspaper of general circulation, as well as the ability of the Department to acknowledge
applications, transmit to agencies for proper review and comments, and developing the Planning
Director’s position and recommendation regarding a use permit application, and transmitting the
same to the Planning Commission, all within the 60-day time frame – it’s very, very difficult.
Therefore, we are requesting, the Director has introduced this bill that would amend Section 25-
2-63, Subsection (a) of the Zoning Code, to amend the section to increase the processing time
period from 60 days to 90 days, nine-zero, which is the time period consistent with other types of
application like special permit application and SMA application. So we have our request before
you.
HOUSEL: Thank you, Daryn. Any questions, Commissioners? There are no persons signed up
to testify on this. Would anyone like to make a motion?
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GIFFIN: Mr. Chairman, I move that the proposed amendment by the Planning Director, the
amendment to Chapter 25 relating to processing time for use permit application from 60 days to
90 days be favorably recommended to the County Council.
HOUSEL: Thank you. Second?
IOKEPA: Second.
HOUSEL: Who seconded that? Commissioner Iokepa? Thank you. Any discussion? Okay.
Daryn, would you like to take a roll?
ARAI: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Giffin?
GIFFIN: Aye.
ARAI: Commissioner Iokepa?
IOKEPA: Aye.
ARAI: Commissioner Beaudet?
BEAUDET: Aye.
ARAI: Commissioner Bowman?
BOWMAN: Aye.
ARAI: Commissioner Hickcox?
HICKCOX: Aye.
ARAI: Commissioner Nelson?
NELSON: Aye.
ARAI: And Mr. Chairman?
HOUSEL: Aye.
ARAI: Mr. Chairman, motion carries with seven aye votes.
HOUSEL: Thank you, Daryn.
The discussion ended at 10:40 a.m.
Respectfullysubmitted,
Noriko Sauer, Secretary
Leeward Planning Commission
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