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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />OCTOBER 17, 2008 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 25 INTIATED BY THE <br />COUNTY COUNCIL REGARDING CONCURRENCY CONDITIONS was called to order at <br />9:57 a.m. in the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hau Room, 62-100 Kaunaoa Drive, Kohala Coast, <br />Hawaii, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding. <br />PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda <br /> Lani Bowman <br /> Takashi Domingo <br /> Frederic Housel <br /> Andrew Iwashita (from 10:17 a.m.) <br /> Shelly Ogata <br /> Rell Woodward <br /> <br /> Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br /> <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />Maija Cottle, Staff Planner <br />And no one from the public in attendance. <br />INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL <br />Amendment to Chapter 25 (Zoning Code), Article 2, Division 4, Section 25-2-46 (Hawaii <br />County Code 1983 (2005 edition, as amended) relating to concurrency conditions for parks and <br />recreational facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, and police and firefighting facilities. <br />WATANABE: Our second item of the day, this is a County Council initiated amendment <br />to Chapter 25. And I believe Mr. Yuen is going to expand on that. By the way, this is our <br />second reading, so we would take action on this. <br />YUEN: Yes. This is the same item that we discussed two weeks ago in our Hilo <br />meeting. This is a Council initiated amendment to the Zoning Code, Chapter 25, and so it has to <br />be reviewed by both the Planning Department and the Planning Commission, and a <br />recommendation sent to the County Council about this bill. I did discuss it at the last <br />Commission meeting. I’ll be happy to take questions on it; I didn’t want to spend a lot of time <br />discussing it further today unless the Commission did have questions. If there were members of <br />the public here, I would spend a little more time on it. <br />But in a nutshell it says that rezoning shall not be granted in a district unless certain criteria are <br />met on a level of public facilities. And there’re specific criteria for the number of police officers, <br />the number of police stations per district, the number of firefighters per fire station, the acreage <br />EXHIBIT B <br />1 <br /> <br />