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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />NOVEMBER 24, 2008 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the PLANNING DIRECTOR INITIATED AMENDMENT <br />TO CHAPTERS 23 AND 25 REGARDING PUBLIC PURPOSE SUBDIVISIONS was called to <br />order at 3:06 p.m. in the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hau Room, 62-100 Kaunaoa Drive, Kohala <br />Coast, Hawaii, with Chairman Rodney Watanabe presiding. <br />PRESENT: Rodney Watanabe ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda <br /> Takashi Domingo Lani Bowman <br /> Frederic Housel Shelly Ogata <br /> Andrew Iwashita <br /> Rell Woodward <br /> Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br /> <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Norman Hayashi, Planning Program Manager <br />OgxkkhrEtihlnsn+Rs`eeOk`mmdq <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />Maija Cottle, Staff Planner <br />And no one from the public in attendance. <br />INITIATOR: PLANNING DIRECTOR <br />Amendment to Chapters 23 (Subdivision Code) and 25 (Zoning Code), Hawaii County Code <br />1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) relating to Public Purpose Subdivisions. <br />WATANABE: We are on our Agenda Item No. 7. The initiator is the Planning Director. <br />This involves an amendment to Chapter 23, Subdivision Code, and Chapter 25, Zoning Code, of <br />Hawaii County Code. Mr. Yuen? <br />YUEN: Yes. This is a request to amend the Subdivision Code and the Zoning <br />Code to more generally exempt subdivisions for public purpose from the normal requirements of <br />the Zoning Code. Currently, the Subdivision Code says that the normal requirements of the <br />Subdivision Code don’t apply for public utility and rights-of-way subdivisions. So an example <br />of public utility subdivision would be the electric company buys a lot for a substation, and they <br />may buy a piece of property that is in Ag-20 zone, 20-acre minimum lot size, but they don’t have <br />to make a 20-acre lot for the substation. It’s not clear how far public utilities goes, so the same <br />principle would apply to public use subdivisions generally. To give an example, say, the <br />Division of Environment Management wanted to get a lot for a transfer station, and the site they <br />chose is in Ag-20 zone; this would mean that they would not have to get, for example, a 20-acre <br />lot, because that’s the minimum lot size in the zoning. So this would generally exempt <br />EXHIBIT F <br />1 <br /> <br />