HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-08-28 TCOUNCIL
LEEWARD PLANNING COMMISSION
COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
HEARING TRANSCRIPT
AUGUST 28, 2009
COUNTY COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION NO. 108 09 ON
A regularly advertised hearing on
AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCE NO. 05 25
was called to order at 11:25 a.m. in the King
Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, Ballroom I, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i with
Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding.
ABSENT & EXCUSED:
PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe Geraldine Giffin
Brandi Beaudet
Lani Bowman
Frederic Housel
Wayne Iokepa
Brandon Gonzalez, Deputy Corporation Counsel
BJ Leithead Todd, Planning Director
Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager
Phyllis Fujimoto, Staff Planner
Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner
Maija Cottle, Staff Planner
And approximately 13 people from the public in attendance
INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL (RESOLUTION NO. 108 09)
Amendments to Ordinance No. 05 25, as amended (County of Hawai‘i General Plan) relating to
the conversion from a single Planning Commission to the Windward and Leeward Planning
Commissions. The proposed amendments are basically “housekeeping changes” as the changes
are merely to replace the words “Planning Commission” with “Leeward and Windward Planning
Commissions.”
WATANABE: We are now on Agenda Item No. 3. The initiator is the County Council.
This is Resolution No. 108 09. And with that, I’ll turn it over to Maija.
COTTLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning.
COMMISSIONERS: Good morning.
COTTLE: The next item is a County Council initiated resolution, and it’s basically a
housekeeping item to change any reference in the General Plan from the one Planning
Commission to now the Leeward and Windward Planning Commissions. Are there any
questions?
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WATANABE:That was easy, yeah?
COTTLE: Short and sweet.
WATANABE: Any questions for staff? Okay. Thank you, Maija. For the record we
have no one signed up for this item, to testify for this item. So I’m going to open that up to
either discussion or I would accept a motion. Anyone care to make a motion? This would be a
recommendation, I believe, yeah?
COTTLE: That’s correct.
BOWMAN: I will.
WATANABE: Yes, Ms. Bowman.
BOWMAN: If I can do it correctly. I move that we send a favorable recommendation
to the County Council for Resolution 108 09.
WATANABE: Thank you. Do I have a second?
HOUSEL: I’ll second that.
WATANABE: Okay, thank you, Mr. Housel. Any discussion on the matter? Maija?
COTTLE: Thank you. Commissioner Bowman?
BOWMAN: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Housel?
HOUSEL: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Beaudet?
BEAUDET: Aye.
COTTLE: Commissioner Iokepa?
IOKEPA: Aye.
COTTLE: And Mr. Chairman?
WATANABE: Aye.
COTTLE: Okay, the motion passes, five-zero.
WATANABE: Okay, thank you.
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The discussion ended at 11:28 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Noriko Sauer, Secretary
Leeward Planning Commission
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